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" Reagan and public discourse in America / "
edited by Michael Weiler and W. Barnett Pearce
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700647
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b522836
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Reagan and public discourse in America /\ edited by Michael Weiler and W. Barnett Pearce
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| Publication Statement
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Tuscaloosa :: University of Alabama Press,, [1992]
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, ©1992
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| Series Statement
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Studies in rhetoric and communication
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xi, 351 pages ;; 24 cm
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0817305858
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: 9780817305857
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-337) and index
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| Contents
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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
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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
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| Abstract
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Reagan and Public Discourse in America assesses the rhetorical legacy of the Reagan Presidency. The essays in this collection focus on a variety of domestic and foreign policy controversies and identify a broad range of persuasive strategies and devices to reveal how Ronald Reagan both appropriated and transformed American public discourse in the 1980s. Reagan's obvious skill at speech-making earned him the title "Great Communicator," but the contributors to this book seek his rhetorical significance in deeper waters. They analyze Reagan's impact not only on the policy issues of the 1980s but also on the process of public political discourse itself. The contributors uncover ways in which Ronald Reagan helped to change how we talk about public issues, and, just as important, what kinds of issues we talk about. They find Reagan a constricting and distorting influence; his rhetoric tended to remove some issues from public debate and to limit the discussion of others chiefly to rituals, gestures, and evasions. From nuclear strategy to social welfare programs, from budget policy to military intervention, Reagan's rhetoric impoverished and perverted political discourse in the public sphere. Taken together, the essays in this collection challenge the traditional emphasis in rhetorical criticism on individual speech texts in unique historical situations. The contributors find the "text" of their analyses not only in Reagan's public comments on a particular issue, but in the articulation of this issue-specific rhetoric with the historically evolving process of public discourse as a whole. Here, they argue, is where Reagan's greatest significance as a communicator is to be found
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Reagan, Ronald-- Language
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Reagan, Ronald-- Oratory
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Communication in politics-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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English language-- United States-- Rhetoric
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Rhetoric-- Political aspects-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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United States, Politics and government, 1981-1989
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| Dewey Classification
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973.927/092
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E877.2.R425 1992
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Pearce, W. Barnett
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Weiler, Michael,1949-
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