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Legitimisation in Political Discourse: A Cross- Disciplinary Perspective on the Modern Us War Rhetoric Second Edition (Revised)

Piotr Cap
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Description: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 proximizationa cognitive-rhetorical strategy that draws on the speakers ability to present events as directly and increasingly affecting the addressee, usually in a negative or threatening way. There are three aspects of proximization: spatial, temporal and axiological. The spatial aspect involves the construal of events in the discourse as physically endangering the addressee. The temporal aspect involves presenting the events as increasingly momentous and historic and hence of central significance to both the addressee and the speaker. The axiological aspect consists in a growing clash between the system of values adhered to by the speaker and the addressee, and the values characterizing a third party whose actions, ideologically negative, are made proximate and thus threatening. Although the tripartite model of proximization proposed in the book is complex at the level of its linguistic realisation, the working assumption is intriguingly basic: addressees of political discourse are more likely to legitimise pre-emptive actions aimed at neutralizing the proximate threat if they construe the threat as personally consequential. The book shows how language of the war-on-terror, and especially the rhetoric of the Iraq war, respond to this precondition.This second revised edition features an extended preface and a new closing chapter.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Legitimisation in Political Discourse: A Cross- Disciplinary Perspective on the Modern Us War Rhetoric Second Edition (Revised). To get started finding Legitimisation in Political Discourse: A Cross- Disciplinary Perspective on the Modern Us War Rhetoric Second Edition (Revised), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
190
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Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release
2014
ISBN
1299659667

Legitimisation in Political Discourse: A Cross- Disciplinary Perspective on the Modern Us War Rhetoric Second Edition (Revised)

Piotr Cap
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Description: 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 proximizationa cognitive-rhetorical strategy that draws on the speakers ability to present events as directly and increasingly affecting the addressee, usually in a negative or threatening way. There are three aspects of proximization: spatial, temporal and axiological. The spatial aspect involves the construal of events in the discourse as physically endangering the addressee. The temporal aspect involves presenting the events as increasingly momentous and historic and hence of central significance to both the addressee and the speaker. The axiological aspect consists in a growing clash between the system of values adhered to by the speaker and the addressee, and the values characterizing a third party whose actions, ideologically negative, are made proximate and thus threatening. Although the tripartite model of proximization proposed in the book is complex at the level of its linguistic realisation, the working assumption is intriguingly basic: addressees of political discourse are more likely to legitimise pre-emptive actions aimed at neutralizing the proximate threat if they construe the threat as personally consequential. The book shows how language of the war-on-terror, and especially the rhetoric of the Iraq war, respond to this precondition.This second revised edition features an extended preface and a new closing chapter.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Legitimisation in Political Discourse: A Cross- Disciplinary Perspective on the Modern Us War Rhetoric Second Edition (Revised). To get started finding Legitimisation in Political Discourse: A Cross- Disciplinary Perspective on the Modern Us War Rhetoric Second Edition (Revised), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
190
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release
2014
ISBN
1299659667

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