2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Symbolic Politics and the Ascendance of Rhetoric: An inquiry into Political Symbols, their Usage and Role in Japan
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19K01462
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 06010:Politics-related
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| Research Institution | Doshisha University |
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Principal Investigator |
Feldman Ofer 同志社大学, 政策学部, 教授 (50208906)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | political interviews / political symbols / media interviews / political rhetoric / Japan / political communication / discourse analysis |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study examined the forms and functions of the symbols used in the public sphere in Japan within the broad framework of political behavior and communication. Data was collected during 2019-2020 from 125 live interviews with politicians and nonpoliticians on programs broadcast on Japanese television. The study identifies 2,458 questions that were posed during these interviews to various groups of interviewees, including members of the national Diet, local level politicians, and to subject matter experts. It also identifies the type of sources which interviewees used during interviews, specifies the reasons for using these sources, and indicates the relationship between these sources and the attributes of the interviewees, the manner in which questions were asked, and the issues and symbols used in the interviews. Analysis of the data reveals the effect of cultural aspects on the interviews, and the role played by the threat to “face” on the interviewees’ communication strategy.
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| Free Research Field |
Political Psychology
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
the study revealed it is not only the interview environment and the fashion in which questions are asked, but also the culture and political culture of a society that determine the types, use, and frequency of cited sources and symbols during political interviews, as they affect political behavior.
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