"A Speech That the Entire Ministry May Stand for," or: Why Diplomats Never Produce Anything New
Neumann, Iver B.International Political Sociology, vol. 1, no. 2, June 2007
Oxford, Blackwell Publishing (2007)p. 183-200.
Speech writing in the Norwegian Foreign Ministry privileges making a single voice out of the organization’s multiplicity of voices, rather than speaking directly to the speech’s audience. In the upshot, MFA speeches tend to sound the same.
