Creatures of Politics: Media, Message, and the American Presidency

It’s a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate’s every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores political communication in American presidential politics, focusing on what political insiders call "message." Message, Michael Lempert and Michael Silverstein argue, is not simply an individual’s positions on the issues but the craft used to fashion the creature the public sees as the candidate. Lempert and Silverstein examine some of the revelatory moments in debates, political ads, interviews, speeches, and talk shows to explain how these political creations come to have a life of their own. From the pandering "Flip-Flopper" to the self-reliant "Maverick," the authors demonstrate how these figures are fashioned out of the verbal, gestural, sartorial, behavioral―as well as linguistic―matter that comprises political communication.

Politics & Social Sciences

Silverstein, Michael

Lempert, Michael

Social Sciences

Indiana University Press

Suggests that environmentally-sound businesses are the most successful, and looks at specific cases

The Environmental Economic Revolution: How Business Will Thrive and the Earth Survive in Years to Come

Business & Money

Economics

St Martins Pr

He's business savvy, she's making deals, they're on the go-who has time to wonder what the heck Emily Dickinson or Lord Byron meant in their eloquent 19th-century poetry? This hilarious collection, compiled by the self-proclaimed "Poet Laureate of Wall Street," contains classic works of literature translated into user-friendly and market-savvy verse. ("Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" becomes "Shall I Declare Thee to the IRS?" and "A Passionate Shepherd to His Love" becomes "A Passionate Broker to His Client.") A perfect gift for anyone interested in today's economy, Songs of Wall Street is guaranteed to leave business types in stitches! Michael Silverstein has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg magazine. He has also made several appearances on National Public Radio.

Songs Of Wall Street: An Anthology Of Verse For Literary Investors

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Running Press

The Environmental Industry Yearbook and Investment Guide

Diane Pub Co.

Planet of the Financial Planners and Other Aberrations

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Silverwood Pubns

Mother Gaia's Book of Business and Investing: A Guide to the Environmental Economics

If politics as practiced is talk, then how does a political figure—especially an American President—talk politics? If someone can be all style and no substance, is there any actual political substance to style? Talking Politics looks at the alpha and omega of presidential image, its highs—Lincoln at Gettysburg—and lows—"W" at any microphone—demystifying the spun mists of political "message" on which an institution like the American presidency has always depended.

Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from Abe to "W" (Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.), 6.)

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Words, Language & Grammar

Prickly Paradigm Press

This book offers a rich assortment of some of Michael Silverstein’s most important lectures at the University of Chicago over the past forty years, all of which converge on theoretical issues involved in the semiotic, cognitive, and sociopolitical study of language and communication. Together they provide an overdue home to an impressive body of thought that has otherwise only been available via unofficial distribution—in hand-written notes, audio recordings, and other media—by longtime fans and students.             Developing and employing semiotic concepts, these lectures concentrate on two central and inverse problems. The first is to understand how interpersonal communication is carried in and by the medium of language. The second is to understand how language is a defining factor in conceptual representations and mental knowledge. Exploring the diversity of sources of knowledge and the many forms of language they can be coded into, Silverstein details the modes of semiosis of which language is composed, in particular those that express cultural knowledge and conceptualization. A sophisticated study of language as a form of interaction, these lectures offer one of the most important contributions to linguistics and anthropological semiotics since Ferdinand de Saussure. 

Language in Culture: The Semiotics of Interaction (Masterclass)

Anthropology

Language enables us to represent our world, rendering salient the identities, groups, and categories that constitute social life. Michael Silverstein (1945–2020) was at the forefront of the study of language in culture, and this book unifies a lifetime of his conceptual innovations in a set of seminal lectures. Focusing not just on what people say but how we say it, Silverstein shows how discourse unfolds in interaction. At the same time, he reveals that discourse far exceeds discrete events, stabilizing and transforming societies, politics, and markets through chains of activity. Presenting his magisterial theoretical vision in engaging prose, Silverstein unpacks technical terms through myriad examples – from brilliant readings of Marcel Marceau's pantomime, the class-laced banter of graduate students, and the poetics/politics of wine-tasting, to Fijian gossip and US courtroom talk. He draws on forebears in linguistics and anthropology while offering his distinctive semiotic approach, redefining how we think about language and culture.

Language in Culture: Lectures on the Social Semiotics of Language

Cambridge University Press

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