ABSTRACT

This paper deals with objects that serve as props in political speeches, and examines their role as carriers of symbolic meaning that is constructed during a performance enacted in a political space. It focuses on the use of such objects as rhetorical arguments in three speeches by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: “the bomb speech,” “the drone-wreckage speech” and the “binder speech.” In each of these political speeches, the initial introduction of the object serves as a declarative act of coronation. This declaration imbues the object with symbolic meaning that relates to reality on several levels: it can serve as a visual metaphor, as a metonym, as a concrete illustration of an abstract concept, or an exhibit or evidence that a certain event took place. The relations between the prop and the spoken text and its rhetoric are discussed in order to trace the unique properties of the multimodal array of arguments that the “crowned” object constructs. The unique characteristics of the objects serve to echo and accentuate the identity and worldview of the speaker, but may also give rise to meanings that undermine the speaker’s intention.

摘要

本文探讨了在政治演讲中充当道具的对象，并考察了它们作为象征意义载体的作用，这种象征意义是在政治空间中的表演过程中建构的。以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Binyamin Netanyahu）的三场演讲都着重于将这些论点用作修辞论证：“炸弹演讲”，“无人机残骸演讲”和“活页夹演讲”。在上述每一次政治演讲中，对客体的最初介绍都是加冕的声明性行为。此声明在多个层面上为对象赋予了与现实相关的象征意义：它可以充当视觉隐喻，转喻，抽象概念的具体说明，或特定事件发生的证据或证据。讨论了道具与口语文本之间的关系及其修辞，以追溯“加冕”对象构造的参数多模式数组的独特属性。这些物体的独特特征可以呼应和强调说话者的身份和世界观，但也可能产生破坏说话者意图的含义。