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"Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt and Churchill: Communication between Political Leaders and Their Audiences in Interwar Europe and United States"

Coordinatore	QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON    more  Organization address address: 327 MILE END ROAD city: LONDON postcode: E1 4NS contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Schonle Cognome: Andreas Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 7882 3390 Fax: +44 20 8980 5400
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	279˙680 €
EC contributo	279˙680 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-12-01   -   2013-11-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON  Organization address address: 327 MILE END ROAD city: LONDON postcode: E1 4NS contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Schonle Cognome: Andreas Email: send email Telefono: +44 20 7882 3390 Fax: +44 20 8980 5400	UK (LONDON)	coordinator	279˙680.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The picture of the 20th century leaderships in social sciences and humanities is still dominated by a number of uncritically accepted postulates such as (1) ascription of special manipulative) properties to Nazi, Soviet or Fascist language; (2) fixation on vocabulary only(G.Orwell's ‘newspeak’) and (3) belief in suggestive power of classical rhetoric projected onto semi-literate masses. These theses find little empirical support in recent scholarship. It turns out that (1) manipulation is typical for political communication even in modern democracies, (2) fuzzy logic has proved more useful in swaying public opinions than ‘wrong’ vocabulary, and (3) the image of scarcely educated people enjoying Ciceronian rhetoric of tyrants does not pass serious scrutiny: Hitler's speeches in German regions were negatively related to his popularity up to 1933, and influenced positively only those who knew and supported his views. Still, few attempts at isolating informational flows between chief executives and their constituencies have been made, so we are still in the dark about the knowledge gained by an average listener of Roosevelt's fireside chat or a participant of a Nazi rally in Nuremberg. The first samples show that preexisting knowledge about the speaker, communicative setting, voice or gestures could play a crucial role, whereas the verbal content would mostly fill the gaps. To prove or disprove this hypothesis, a set of linguistic and anthropological methods is applied to the model of direct communication constructed by pairing messages (political speeches of Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill) with feedbacks (direct responses to those speeches in private letters). The importance of knowing how communication between political leaders and their audiences actually worked may be of significant interest for European political practitioners and their constituencies, mutually dependent on better understanding and more efficient interaction.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

A dynamic model of communication between the political leaders Hitler, Stalin and Roosevelt and their followers highlights the societal impact of information exchange.