The Rhetoric Blog
Professor Jens Elmelund Kjeldsen's Rhetoric Blog is published by the online magazine Vox Publica. Here, Kjeldsen addresses various aspects of rhetoric in public and private communication situations, hereunder political speeches, the use of pictures, the role and function of rhetoric experts in the media and issues in rhetoric online. The blog is published in Norwegian. Read the blog here.
Political Speeches
The database "Virksomme ord" contains political speeches throughout Norwegian history. The database is meant to function as a resource for researchers, teachers, journalists and others interested in political history and public communication. The speeches are primarily in manuscript format, true to the language of the original context in which the speech was made. In addition, the database contains a collection of photographs, audio recordings and live images from the speech events themselves.
The Rhetoric Research Group
The research group studies rhetoric from a variety of approaches, primarily focusing on the art of speaking and political communication. Members of the group are involved in projects analysing political speaches, forms of agitation in the early democratic era, new complexities in political communication, and literature on rhetoric instruction for the past 200 years.
