Bahasa Reformasi : Political Rhetoric in Post-Suharto Indonesia.
In ""Bahasa Reformasi"", Arndt Graf analyzes the political rhetoric of post-Suharto Indonesia from the first wave of major protests against the Suharto government in 1997 to the Wahid presidency in 1999-2001. In this period, New Order types of political communication were challen...
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Figures and Tables; PART I: Rhetorical analysis in times of professional Political Marketing; 1. Persuasion replacing physical force? The rhetorical approach to politicalcommunication in post-Suharto Indonesia; Normative grounds: rhetoric and the classical idea of thedemocratic forum; Theoretical framework of this study; Previous approaches to the study of Indonesian political rhetoric; Rhetoric and oral/aural culture; Kramanization or madyaisasi
- State speech and 'state speak.
- Research question: rhetorical patterns of reformulatingthe ""reformasi"" impulse2. A clash of concepts: reformasi rhetoric between grassroots protestand professional Political Marketing; Genres of the protest movement; The notion of Political Marketing in self-representationsof ""reformasi"" politicians; Historical experiences with Political Marketing in New Order Indonesia; Fragmentations, distortions, and other limitations of the political marketat the end of the New Order; PART II: The basic business of reformulating laymen's talk.
- 3. ""Aspirasi rakyat"": Reformasi topoi at the grassroots levelDepictions of outer decay and falseness (""dunia lahir""); Lawlessness; The black magic of tyranny; Economic exploitation; Depictions of inner conflict (dunia batin); Appeals for action; 4. Representing or reformulating grassroots imagery? A case study of the metaphorical strategies of Amien Rais; A message of inner peace: Islam as answer; The rhetoric of the Honest Self; The lonely leader and his moral duty; Outside order: a universe of neo-traditional imagery; The gendered imagery of body and house; Family as metaphor.
- Evoking regional identityRestructuring the imagery of nationalism and modernity; Nationalism: the colonial trauma and threats from abroad; Cultural modernization; Summary; PART III: The advanced level: Employing keywords and humor; 5. Condensing imagery to keywords: Keyword strategies in comparison; Models of keywords analysis of Indonesian political rhetoric; Hussein-Jouffroy (1976): the ignored pioneering study; Michael van Langenberg's 40 keywords (1986); Ariel Heryanto (1995); Eriyanto's keywords approach (2000); Table 1. Keywords and derived keywords in Suharto's speeches.
- A new keywords approach: "computational rhetoricSample and methodology; Table 2. Frequency of interviews per medium, Jan. 1998
- Oct; Figure 1. Overall interview frequency in all print media; Figure 2. The candidates' interviews in Forum; Amien Rais' keywords: modern Islam and leadership; Table 3. Interviews in the general sample; Table 4. Keywords of Amien Rais; Table 5. Underrepresented keywords in the rhetoric of Amien Rais; The measured keywords of Akbar Tanjung; Table 6. Akbar Tanjung's keywords; Table 7. Keywords avoided by Akbar Tanjung (in ascending order); Megawati's few keywords.
