Playing It Again in Post-Communism: The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Viktor Orbán in Hungary

Anna Szilágyi*, András Bozóki

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

This longitudinal case study about the political rhetoric of Viktor Orbán—prime minister of Hungary between 1998 and 2002, and since 2010, respectively—demonstrates that the first, remarkable personal experiences in public communication may have a major impact (“imprinting”) on the future behavior of political actors. Orbán gave a memorably radical talk on June 16, 1989, urging Hungary’s democratic transition from Communism. The study uses critical discourse analysis and links it to media scholarship on live media events to show that Orbán became hostage of his own rhetoric and speech situation for the two decades that followed his 1989 entry.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S153-S166
JournalAdvances in the History of Rhetoric
Volume18
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Apr 2015

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