Speech! Speech! Dramatising Rhetorical Citizenship

演讲！

• 批准号: AH/X002985/1
• 负责人: Henriette Van Der Blom
• 金额: $ 9.66万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX002985%2F1
• 关键词: Speech; Dramatising; Rhetorical; Citizenship

Robust public debate and the freedom to make arguments and counterarguments are essential to democracy. Today, however, political dispute is ever more sectarian and angry, fears of misinformation are (justifiably) widespread and political discussion confined within groups of the like-minded talking to each other online. Against this background the proposed project develops and redeploys findings from AHRC-funded research into 'The Crisis of Rhetoric'. It centres on the concept of 'rhetorical citizenship', which names our common rights to hear and see political actors present their arguments directly to us, judge them for ourselves and, crucially, to take part in public debate and discussion with skills that match those of professional political actors. It follows that citizens need to:a) be empowered to develop, write and deliver their own persuasive argumentsb) have knowledge of the techniques and styles of political speech and rhetoric, and of how to understand and assess them c) be part of a political culture which takes political speech and debate seriously, and which creates occasions when speech and argument can be experienced directly and unmediated.The project will cultivate skills in writing and delivering powerful speeches, as well as critical thinking about what makes for good and bad political rhetoric, enhancing shared rhetorical citizenship. It will further and deepen the dissemination of academic research to new communities, as part of developing and delivering training for members of the public in these rhetorical arts, by encouraging critically-minded celebration of the potential contribution of political speech and rhetorical citizenship to our democratic lives.The project will achieve this primarily through a partnership between the academic project team and Dash Arts, an award-winning and internationally engaged theatre company specialising in creating unique live and digital events. Together we will develop theatrical practices and a body of original experimental performance work through which participants and audiences can develop their critical understanding and practical experience of political rhetoric and argument. Through workshops and public performances developed in partnership with local arts, community and political organisations in six English cities, we will train people in the arts of speechwriting and speechmaking and develop models for such training that outlast the life of the project. In addition, through partnership with the European Speechwriter Network (a professional association for speechwriters working in a range of public and private governmental, financial and charitable organisations) the project team and Dash Arts will engage practitioners in direct dialogue that will contribute to their practice, and to their writing of political speeches which engage and involve citizens. We will promote wider public discussion and reflection on political speech and rhetoric through a 'Festival of Political Speech'. The culmination of the project, this will combine panel talks, forum theatre, conversations, workshops and performances. It will bring together members of the public, journalists, educators, politicians and national advocates of oracy. It will also showcase the skills of the diverse individuals who will have learned rhetoric/speechmaking at the city-based workshops.We will also stimulate public discussion and reflection through documenting all of these activities, producing and disseminating an original podcast series following participants' journeys as they began, developed and delivered their speeches. We will promote public understanding through wider media outreach, in particular local media in the areas where the workshops are staged. At its close the project will have helped develop a body of theatrical work that can be further refined and staged, as well as models for community and popular education in an art crucial for the survival of our democracy.

强有力的公开辩论以及提出论点和反驳的自由对民主至关重要。然而，今天的政治争端越来越宗派和愤怒，对错误信息的恐惧（毫无疑问）普遍存在，政治讨论局限于志同道合的群体在网上相互交谈。在此背景下，拟议的项目开发和重新部署从AHRC资助的研究成果到“修辞危机”。它集中在“修辞公民”的概念，它命名为我们的共同权利，听到和看到政治行为者直接向我们提出他们的论点，为我们自己判断，最重要的是，参加公共辩论和讨论的技能相匹配的专业政治行为者。因此，公民需要：a）有能力发展、撰写和发表自己的有说服力的论点; b）了解政治演讲和修辞的技巧和风格，以及如何理解和评估它们; c）成为认真对待政治演讲和辩论的政治文化的一部分，创造可以直接和不经中介地体验演讲和辩论的场合。该项目将培养撰写和发表强有力演讲的技能，以及对什么是好的和坏的政治修辞进行批判性思考，加强共同的修辞公民。它将进一步深化学术研究向新社区的传播，作为发展和提供公众在这些修辞艺术培训的一部分，通过鼓励批判性地庆祝政治演讲和修辞公民对我们民主生活的潜在贡献。该项目将主要通过学术项目团队和Dash Arts之间的伙伴关系实现这一目标，一家屡获殊荣的国际戏剧公司，专门从事创造独特的现场和数字活动。我们将共同开发戏剧实践和原创实验表演作品的主体，通过这些作品，参与者和观众可以发展他们对政治修辞和论点的批判性理解和实践经验。通过与六个英国城市的当地艺术，社区和政治组织合作开发的研讨会和公开表演，我们将培训演讲写作和演讲艺术的人员，并为这种培训开发模型，这些培训将持续超过项目的生命。此外，通过与欧洲演讲撰稿人网络（一个在一系列公共和私人政府，金融和慈善组织工作的演讲撰稿人专业协会）的合作，项目团队和Dash Arts将与从业者进行直接对话，这将有助于他们的实践，并有助于他们撰写吸引和参与公民的政治演讲。我们将通过“政治演讲节”促进公众对政治演讲和言论的更广泛讨论和反思。该项目的高潮，这将结合联合收割机小组会谈，论坛剧院，对话，研讨会和表演。它将使公众、记者、教育工作者、政治家和全国的神学倡导者聚集在一起。我们还将通过记录所有这些活动，制作和传播一个原创播客系列，记录参与者开始、发展和发表演讲的旅程，从而激发公众的讨论和反思。我们会透过更广泛的传媒外展活动，特别是工作坊举办地区的本地传媒，促进公众对工作坊的认识。在项目结束时，该项目将有助于开发一套可以进一步完善和上演的戏剧作品，以及社区和大众教育的模式，这门艺术对我们民主的生存至关重要。