Add to ORKGThe study used symbolic convergence theory to analyze the rhetoric of the Tamil separatist movement in Sri Lanka to garner support for their cause. Examining two texts, the 1976 Vaddukoddai Resolution and the 2008 Heroes Day speech, we identified three main fantasy themes and a dominant rhetorical vision in both. This timely study clearly demonstrates the usefulness of SCT as a method of rhetorical analysis across cultures and also incorporates some recent criticisms of the theory. Thus, the study provides nuanced insights into how terrorists inspire followers through their rhetoric
The Bodu Bala Sena (Buddhist Strength Army) is a Sinhalese nationalist movement led by Buddhist monk...
Theoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 259-282.Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Literature revi...
The Kandyan Sinhalese of Sri Lanka (previously Ceylon) occupy the central highlands of the island, a...
In Sri Lanka, the Tamils' demand for a federal state has turned within a quarter of a century into a...
The mutually hostile historical and political ethno-nationalist projects of the Sinhalese and the Sr...
Emerging from a history of state-sponsored violence and discrimination, the Liberation Tigers of Tam...
Sri Lanka is the theatre of a three decade long bloody ‘terrorist’ conflict, where terrorist strateg...
The topic of this thesis is separatism and ethnic violence in post-colonial South Asia. More precise...
Nationalism has played an important role in the birth of separatist movements through isolation or c...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/This study argues that politi...
textTheories of ethnic conflict typically focus on primordialist (historical and psychological), co...
The effect of linguistic is the integral part of the Social and political consideration in the multi...
During the Sri Lankan Civil War, an entire generation grew up under a condition of violence. I analy...
textTheories of ethnic conflict typically focus on primordialist (historical and psychological), co...
The 26 year Sri Lankan Civil War, in which thousands were killed and many more displaced both locall...
The Bodu Bala Sena (Buddhist Strength Army) is a Sinhalese nationalist movement led by Buddhist monk...
Theoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 259-282.Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Literature revi...
The Kandyan Sinhalese of Sri Lanka (previously Ceylon) occupy the central highlands of the island, a...
In Sri Lanka, the Tamils' demand for a federal state has turned within a quarter of a century into a...
The mutually hostile historical and political ethno-nationalist projects of the Sinhalese and the Sr...
Emerging from a history of state-sponsored violence and discrimination, the Liberation Tigers of Tam...
Sri Lanka is the theatre of a three decade long bloody ‘terrorist’ conflict, where terrorist strateg...
The topic of this thesis is separatism and ethnic violence in post-colonial South Asia. More precise...
Nationalism has played an important role in the birth of separatist movements through isolation or c...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/This study argues that politi...
textTheories of ethnic conflict typically focus on primordialist (historical and psychological), co...
The effect of linguistic is the integral part of the Social and political consideration in the multi...
During the Sri Lankan Civil War, an entire generation grew up under a condition of violence. I analy...
textTheories of ethnic conflict typically focus on primordialist (historical and psychological), co...
The 26 year Sri Lankan Civil War, in which thousands were killed and many more displaced both locall...
The Bodu Bala Sena (Buddhist Strength Army) is a Sinhalese nationalist movement led by Buddhist monk...
Theoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 259-282.Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Literature revi...
The Kandyan Sinhalese of Sri Lanka (previously Ceylon) occupy the central highlands of the island, a...