New to rhetoric? Want to know what members of our group do their research on? Here’s a list (which we’ll try to keep updated) of publications that show some of the interesting things they do:

Judi Atkins, ‘Constructing Conflict and Cooperation: the Rhetoric of Coalition Bargaining’, Party Politics 25/2 (2019): 315-324

Judi Atkins, Conflict, Co-operation and the Rhetoric of Coalition Government (Palgrave, 2018)

Judi Atkins, ‘“Strangers in their own Country”: Epideictic Rhetoric and Communal Definition in Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” Speech’, The Political Quarterly, 89/3 (2018): 362-369.

Judi Atkins, ‘(Re)imagining Magna Carta: Myth, Metaphor and the Rhetoric of Britishness’, Parliamentary Affairs, 69/3 (2016): 603-620

Judi Atkins and Alan Finlayson, ‘“As Shakespeare so Memorably Said…”: Quotation, Rhetoric, and the Performance of Politics’, Political Studies, 64/1 (2016): 164-181

Alan Finalyson, ‘Proving, Pleasing and Persuading? Rhetoric in Contemnporary British Politics’, The Political Quarterly 85/4 (2014): 428-43

James Martin, Psychopolitics of Speech: Uncivil Discourse and the Excess of Desire (Transcript, 2019)

James Martin, ‘Situating Speech: A Rhetorical Approach to Political Strategy’, Political Studies 63/1 (2015): 25-42

James Martin, Politics and Rhetoric: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2014)

See also the Palgrave series, run by members of the group: Rhetoric, Politics and Society