They spoke in defense of themselves: On the generic criticism of apologia
- 1 October 1973
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Vol. 59 (3), 273-283
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00335637309383176
Abstract
Crisis communication is a widely treated field. There are lot of works and guides which provide helpful information in order to face crisis situations successfully (Alcat, 2005, Benoit, 1997) and articles about case studies (Nespereira, 2014, Blaney y Benoit 2001). Nonetheless, most of times, these guides are focused on business or corporations (Abeler, 2010) and there are not such information about crisis communications in politics (Gaspar e Ibeas, 2015). The field is smaller if we speak about forgiveness as restoration image tool in politics (Harris 2006). Despite all, we live in “forgiveness era” as Krauze said (1998) where people demand to politicians to apologize when they have mistakes (Harris et al. 2006:716). So, we will try to make an approach to forgiveness in politics as a image restoration tool and analyze its capabilities in order to face crisis management.La comunicación de crisis es un apartado que cuenta con bastante literatura al respecto. Existen numerosos manuales en los que se desgranan las principales indicaciones para afrontar con garantías crisis de comunicación (Alcat, 2005, Benoit, 1997) así como artículos sobre casos concretos (Nespereira, 2014, Blaney y Benoit 2001). Sin embargo, la mayor parte de las veces estas indicaciones se aplican al ámbito de la empresa (Abeler, 2010) y el número de publicaciones disminuye considerablemente a la hora de tratar la comunicación de crisis en política (Gaspar e Ibeas, 2015) y menos aún sobre casos en los que se ha empleado el perdón como herramienta para la restauración de la imagen en política (Harris 2006) y todo pese a los que tal y como consideran diversos autores (Krauze, 1998) podría considerarse que vivimos en la “era del perdón” con una proliferación de demandas de perdón por parte de los ciudadanos particularmente hacia los políticos (Harris et al. 2006:716). Así trataremos de hacer una aproximación a este campo y a sus posibilidades a la hora de afrontar este tipo de situacionesKeywords
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