Document Type
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Record Number
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840963
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Main Entry
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Roberts-Miller, Patricia,1959-
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Title & Author
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Rhetoric and demagoguery /\ Patricia Roberts-Miller.
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Publication Statement
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Carbondale :: Southern Illinois University Press,, [2019]
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Page. NO
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ix, 245 pages ;; 23 cm
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ISBN
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0809337126
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: 9780809337125
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9780809337132
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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Introduction: demagogues and demagoguery -- Invasion of Iraq and the evasion of policy deliberation -- Punishment/reward and binary paired terms -- Scapegoating and rationality markers -- When the choir claims to have been converted -- Anti-intellectualism and the appeal to expert opinion.
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Abstract
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"Through a series of case studies, Patricia Roberts-Miller argues for seeing demagoguery as a way that people participate in public discourse, not necessarily populist and not necessarily heavily emotional. Demagoguery, she contents, depoliticizes political argument by making all issues into questions of identity"--
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Subject
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Communication in politics.
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Subject
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Rhetoric-- Political aspects.
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Subject
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Communication in politics.
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Subject
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Demagogie
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Subject
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Politische Kommunikation
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Subject
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Politische Rede
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Subject
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Rhetoric-- Political aspects.
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Dewey Classification
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808/.0427
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LC Classification
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P301.5.P67R65 2019
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