Roderick P. Hart

Roderick P. Hart holds the Shivers Chair in Communication and is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or editor of twelve books including Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us (Princeton, 2000) and Political Keywords: Using Language that Uses Us (Oxford, 2005). His most recent work (with Jay Childers and Colene Lind) is Political Tone: How Leaders Talk Why (Chicago, 2013). He is the creator of DICTION: The Text-Analysis Program.

Publications

Communication and Language Analysis in the Corporate World
Communication and Language Analysis in the Corporate World
Roderick P. Hart. © 2014. 435 pages.
While personal variables like age, education, and gender are often thought to contribute to a person’s distinctive speech pattern, corporate environments often develop its own...
Communication and Language Analysis in the Public Sphere
Communication and Language Analysis in the Public Sphere
Roderick P. Hart. © 2014. 580 pages.
Although, language is certainly individualized, most people conform to linguistic norms because of their surroundings. Over time, particular words and phrases are popularized by...
Rhetorical Negotiation and the Presidential Press Conference
Rhetorical Negotiation and the Presidential Press Conference
Roderick P. Hart, Joshua M. Scacco. © 2014. 22 pages.
This chapter traces the language of presidential press conferences, keying particularly on three axes said to distinguish journalistic and presidential behavior: (1) the...