{"id":7554,"date":"2008-04-02T14:41:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T21:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=7554"},"modified":"2012-12-18T11:19:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:19:29","slug":"talking-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/talking-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The politics behind communicating political messages is the focus of a talk by author and University of Chicago anthropology professor Michael Silverstein on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Silverstein will present &#8220;Is &#8216;Message&#8217; in Meltdown in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign?&#8221; at 3:30 p.m. April 4 in the Gardner Auditorium at The W.A. Franke College of Business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although Silverstein has worked on many things, this lecture is of burning relevance this year,&#8221; said\u00a0<strong>Jim Wilce<\/strong>, NAU professor anthropology.<\/p>\n<p>Wilce notes that Silverstein is known for analyzing rhetoric of all sorts, including U.S. political rhetoric in his book,\u00a0<em>Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from \u00a0Abe to &#8220;W&#8221;<\/em>, published by Paradigm.<\/p>\n<p>For information, call (928) 523-2729 or e-mail\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Jim.Wilce@nau.edu\">Jim.Wilce@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/talking-politics\/\">The politics behind communicating political messages is the focus of a talk by author and University of Chicago anthropology professor Michael Silverstein on Friday. Silverstein will present &#8220;Is &#8216;Message&#8217; in Meltdown in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign?&#8221; at 3:30 p.m. April 4 in the Gardner Auditorium at The W.A. Franke College of Business. &#8220;Although Silverstein&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}