Legitimisation in Political Discourse

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 ...

Year

2010

Language

English

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Pub.

Editions

2

Pages

174

ISBN

9781443845533

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