Sharing values to safeguard the future: British Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration as epideictic rhetoric

This article explores the rhetoric, and mass-mediation, of the national Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) commemoration ceremony, as broadcast on British television. I argue that the televised national ceremonies should be approached as an example of multi-genre epideictic rhetoric, working up meanings t...

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Main Author: John Richardson
Format: Default Article
Published: 2017
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Other human society not elsewhere classified
Linguistics not elsewhere classified
Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified
Rhetoric
Epideictic
Commemoration
Holocaust Memorial Day
Discourse-historic analysis
Multi-modality
Linguistics
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/26604
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