Discursive consciousness encourages politicians to participate in sharing their story. It is the speech that is a conversation or discourse between the potential and intended audience. It is a personal campaign, connecting the platform with lay people in an attempt to gain real support. This creates a profile. Through existential coherence, insinuations of kinship help the public and the politician find common ground, providing elements of familiarity that evoke a recognizable and accessible person. This public image is a configuration of the individual's history, ideas, beliefs, and purpose, a kind of oratorical summary. A narrative of belonging would be shown in the existential coherence of the campaign. The implications of regionally specific qualifications make the potential suitable for the masses. In example [1] the candidate Steve Evans, relegates his background, relishing his youth. The action of narrative belonging entices voters to identify the candidate as “one of us”. He's reinforcing the idea that he's not an outsider. Example [2] invites the public to examine ...
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