Speechwriting in and beyond the White House: Selected international perspectives on aspects of speechwriting in government and business

Autor

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29107/rr2025.2.10

Słowa kluczowe:

ankieta, pisanie przemówień, pisarze przemówień, Sorensen, Biały Dom

Abstrakt

W artykule zestawiono wnioski z badań archiwalnych dotyczące tworzenia przemówień deliberatywnych w trakcie prezydentury JFK z wnioskami z pilotażowego badania warsztatu pracy międzynarodowych pisarzy przemówień Pisanie przemówień w brytyjskiej i amerykańskiej polityce i biznesie: studium praktyki, zawodu i etyki pisania przemówień. Cieszący się zainteresowaniem współczesnych pisarzy model współpracy Teda Sorensena z prezydentem Johnem F. Kennedym nie jest częścią współczesnej rzeczywistości pisania przemówień. Ankietowani pisarze nie są ekspertami merytorycznymi i mają ograniczony dostęp do liderów, dla których piszą. Jednak ich wiedza w zakresie komunikacji może odgrywać istotną rolę w kształtowaniu i komunikowaniu decyzji politycznych.

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Biogram autora

  • Iwona Świątczak-Wasilewska - Uniwersytet Gdański

    Doktor nauk humanistycznych, Area and Cultural Studies, North American Studies, Helsinki University, Finland

    MA, English Philology and North American Studies, University of Tampere, Finland

    Amerykanistka, anglistka, adiunkt w Zakładzie Amerykanistyki Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. Stypendystka amerykańskich i europejskich instytucji zajmujących się ochroną prezydenckiej pamięci instytucjonalnej. Pomysłodawczyni projektu biblioteki prezydenckiej - projektu, który realizowała w Fundacji Instytut Lecha Wałęsy w latach 2012-2014. Współpracuje z instytucjami kultury w projektach polsko-amerykańskich.

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Opublikowane

19-06-2025

Jak cytować

Świątczak-Wasilewska, Iwona. 2025. “Speechwriting in and Beyond the White House: Selected International Perspectives on Aspects of Speechwriting in Government and Business”. Res Rhetorica 12 (2): 193-213. https://doi.org/10.29107/rr2025.2.10.