Open this publication in new window or tab >>2009 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The objective of this study is to explore how citizens were addressed in Swedish electionposters in the eleven national elections between 1908 and 1936. The period coversgreat changes in political life as well as in campaign work of the parties. Election postersare better suited for mobilising citizens than for argumentation and presentation ofpolicy alternatives. The question here is how the parties have used this mobilisingfunction to connect to their voters. More specifically: to what extent have the partiesturned to members of collective bodies such as social classes on the one hand, and toindividuals who may have different political convictions and standpoints, on the other. This study combines a) a quantitative overview where the explicit verbal messages arebeing studied, with b) an analysis inspired by semiotic approaches in which bothdenotative and connotative levels of messages are brought into the analysis.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2009
Keywords
election posters, election campaigns, political rhetoric, Sweden
National Category
Economics and Business Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-2904 (URN)2082/3306 (Local ID)2082/3306 (Archive number)2082/3306 (OAI)
Conference
Nordmedia 09 conference, Media and Communication History Section, Karlstad 13-15.8.2009
Projects
Hundra års valaffischer: Medborgarsyn och kommunikationsstrategier i en seglivad kampanjkanal (A Century of Election Posters)
Note
Paper presented at the Nordmedia 09 conference, Media and Communication History Section, Karlstad 13-15.8.2009
2009-09-022009-09-022022-09-13Bibliographically approved