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Autore: |
Cap Piotr
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Titolo: |
Legitimisation in political discourse : a cross-disciplinary perspective on the modern US war rhetoric / / Piotr Cap
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Pubblicazione: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (152 p.) |
Disciplina: | 320.0140973 |
355.001/4 | |
355.0014 | |
Soggetto topico: | Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 21st century |
Rhetoric and psychology | |
Communication in politics - United States | |
War on Terrorism, 2001- | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [130]-139) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
Sommario/riassunto: | How did the G.W. Bush administration manage to persuade Americans to go to war in Iraq in March 2003? How was this intervention, and the global campaign named as "war-on-terror," legitimised linguistically? This book shows that the best legitimisation effects in political discourse are accomplished through the use of 'proximization'-a cognitive-rhetorical strategy that draws on the speaker's ability to present events as directly and increasingly affecting the addressee, usually in a negative ... |
Titolo autorizzato: | Legitimisation in political discourse ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-19137-3 |
9786612191374 | |
1-4438-0764-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910815269303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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