On the Evolution of Visual Rhetoric in Political Communication

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (9) : 71-87.

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (9) : 71-87.

On the Evolution of Visual Rhetoric in Political Communication

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This paper believes visual rhetoric in political communication evolves in newspaper, TV and new media eras: in newspaper era, political visual rhetorics are subsidiaries of verbal rhetoric; in TV era, visualized political persuasion becomes mainstream, and verbal rhetoric retreats secondly; in new media era, political communication exhibits carnival visual disenchantment; the future of visual rhetoric and verbal rhetoric will no longer to be binary opposition of "sensibility" and "rationality", but demonstrate the trend of comprehensive convergence.

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visual rhetoric / political communication / sensibility and rationality / comprehensive rhetoric

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