Introduction to the special issue: Rhetorical approaches to contemporary political studies
| Author | James Martin,Sophia Hatzisavvidou |
| DOI | 10.1177/02633957211050272 |
| Published date | 01 May 2022 |
| Date | 01 May 2022 |
| Subject Matter | Special Issue Introduction |
https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957211050272
Politics
2022, Vol. 42(2) 149 –155
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Introduction to the special
issue: Rhetorical approaches
to contemporary political
studies
Sophia Hatzisavvidou
University of Bath, UK
James Martin
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Abstract
This article introduces the special issue on Rhetorical Approaches to Contemporary Political
Studies. It underscores the importance of innovations in political speech as a key to the continuing
attraction of scholars to rhetorical methods. This is particularly relevant at a moment of crisis
and disruption in established democracies when the parameters of acceptable discourse have
been brought into question by forms of ‘post-truth’ politics. Although controversial, such efforts
affirm the value of rhetorical analysis as a mode of political enquiry. The article then sketches the
arguments of the contributions to the issue.
Keywords
innovation, post-truth, rhetoric
Received: 28th May 2021; Revised version received: 16th August 2021; Accepted: 25th June 2021
Politics, as Aristotle reminds us, is an activity that relies, fundamentally, on the human
capacity for speech. As he says in Book I of The Politics:
the power of speech is intended to set forth the expedient and the inexpedient, and therefore
likewise the just and the unjust. And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of
good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this
sense makes a family and a state. (Aristotle, 1988: 1214–1220)
Corresponding author:
James Martin, Department of Politics & International Relations, Goldsmiths, University of London, New
Cross, Lewisham Way, London SE14 6NW, UK.
Email: j.martin@gold.ac.uk
1050272POL0010.1177/02633957211050272PoliticsHatzisavvidou and Martin
research-article2021
Special Issue: Introduction
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