05702nam 2200697 450 991081171170332120230803220933.090-272-7078-3(CKB)2550000001200324(EBL)1636062(SSID)ssj0001112166(PQKBManifestationID)12444199(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001112166(PQKBWorkID)11158961(PQKB)10017113(MiAaPQ)EBC1636062(Au-PeEL)EBL1636062(CaPaEBR)ebr10829014(OCoLC)868580220(EXLCZ)99255000000120032420140204h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe great American scaffold intertextuality and identity in American presidential discourse /Frank AustermühlAmsterdam, Netherlands ;Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :John Benjamins Publishing,2014.©20141 online resource (348 p.)Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture ;Volume 53Description based upon print version of record.90-272-0644-9 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.The Great American Scaffold; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; 1. American echoes - On intertextuality in American presidential discourse; 1.1 The speeches of American presidents as a cultural intertext; 1.2 POTUS speaks; 1.2.1 The rhetorical presidency; 1.2.2 Presidential rhetoric; 1.2.3 Towards presidential discourse analysis; 1.3 Hypotheses; 1.4 Theories of intertextuality; 1.4.1 Universal intertextuality; 1.4.2 Descriptive approaches to intertextuality; 1.4.3 Genette's notion of transtextuality; 1.5 A typology of presidential intertextuality1.5.1 Forms of intertextual relations in presidential discourse 1.5.2 Functions of intertextual relations in presidential discourse; 1.6 Methodology; 1.7 Chapter overview; 2. "The voice of the nation" - The democratization of American presidential discourse; 2.1 Defining America's discursive space; 2.1.1 Reducing the distance; 2.1.2 Popularizing public discourse; 2.2 The "I" in presidency - Personal pronouns in presidential discourse; 2.2.1 Text types, congressional majorities, and the use of pronouns; 2.2.2 On priests and prophets; 2.3 On actors and interaction in presidential discourse2.3.1 Rhetorical coalitions 2.3.2 The presidential hero; 2.3.3 On god and devil terms; 2.4 Presidential discourse and the unilateral executive; 2.4.1 From the rhetorical to the imperial presidency; 2.4.2 A presidential view of the american political system; 2.4.3 A discursive tug-of-war; 2.5 Presidential genres; 2.5.1 Campbell and Jamieson's generic theory of presidential discourse; 2.5.1.1 Rhetoric of investiture; 2.5.1.2 Rhetorical acts representing interaction with Congress; 2.5.1.3 Rhetoric of divestiture; 2.5.2 Additional presidential genres3. "To declare to the world" - Inaugural addresses, eternal topoi, and American civil religion 3.1 The inaugural address as a presidential genre; 3.1.1 Generic elements of inaugural addresses; 3.1.2 Presidential inaugural addresses and American civil religion; 3.1.3 Civil religious themes in presidential inaugural addresses; 3.2 Analyzing presidential inaugural themes; 3.3 Thematic intertextuality in presidential inaugural addresses; 3.3.1 A quantitative theme analysis; 3.3.2 A qualitative theme analysis; 3.3.2.1 Values, anti-values, and belief and faith3.3.2.2 Union and American sites of memory 3.3.2.3 Mission, burden, prevail, and war and military; 3.3.2.4 Continuity and change; 3.3.2.5 Government and economic success; 3.4 Inaugural themes in other presidential genres; 3.4.1 State of the Union addresses; 3.4.2 Foreign policy addresses; 3.5 American themes; 4. "Freedom and fear are at war" - The making of an American hypotext; 4.1 George W. Bush's "axis of evil" - Rhetoric or reality?; 4.1.1 Reading the "axis of evil"; 4.1.1.1 The speech's macrostructures; 4.1.1.2 Fighting freedom's fight - Three fronts and one budget4.1.1.3 The American creed renewedBased on extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses of a corpus of American presidential speeches that includes all inaugural addresses and State of the Union messages from 1789 to 2008, as well as major foreign and security policy speeches after 1945, this research monograph analyzes the various forms and functions of intertextual references found in the discourse of American presidents. Working within an original, interdisciplinary theoretical framework established by theories of intertextuality, discourse analysis, and presidential studies, the book discusses five different types of prDiscourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;v. 53.Discourse analysisPolitical aspectsCommunication in politicsPresidentsUnited StatesInaugural addressesPolitical oratorySpeeches, addresses, etc., AmericanDiscourse analysisPolitical aspects.Communication in politics.PresidentsPolitical oratory.Speeches, addresses, etc., American.352.23/80973Austermühl Frank1638716MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811711703321The great American scaffold3981322UNINA