| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 351 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in rhetoric and communication |
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Studies in rhetoric and communication.
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| Contents |
Introduction : the rhetorical analysis of the Reagan administration / W. Barnett Pearce, Michael Weiler -- Ceremonial discourse : the rhetorical ecology of the Reagan administration / Michael Weiler, W. Barnett Pearce -- Rhetoric, legitimation, and the end of the Cold War : Ronald Reagan at the Moscow Summit, 1988 / G. Thomas Goodnight -- President Reagan at the London Guildhall : a British interpretation / Robin Carter -- Acting like a president : or, what has Ronald Reagan done to political speaking? / J. Jeffrey Auer -- Antithesis and oxymoron : Ronald Reagan's figurative rhetorical structure / James Jasinski -- The transformation of actor to scene : some strategic grounds of the Reagan legacy / Jane Blankenship, Janette Kenner Muir -- A rhetorical ambush at Reykjavik : a case study of the transformation of discourse / W. Barnett Pearce, Deborah K. Johnson, Robert J. Branham -- The paranoid style in foreign policy : Ronald Reagan's control of the situation in Nicaragua / Jeff D. Bass -- When the shoe is on the other foot : the Reagan administration's treatment of the shootdown of Iran Air 655 / Marilyn J. Young -- The Reagan attack on welfare / Michael Weiler -- The city as marketplace : a rhetorical analysis of the urban enterprise zone policy / DeLysa Burnier, David Descutner -- Civil religion and public argument : Reagan as public priest of the antiabortion movement / Catherine Helen Palczewski |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-337) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Reagan, Ronald -- Language
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Reagan, Ronald -- Oratory
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| SUBJECT |
Reagan, Ronald fast |
| Subject |
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY.
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Communication in politics
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Language and languages
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Oratory
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Politics and government
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140475
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Weiler, Michael, 1949-
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Pearce, W. Barnett
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| ISBN |
0585212953 |
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9780585212951 |
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