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The great American scaffold : intertextuality and identity in American presidential discourse /

Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses of a corpus of American presidential speeches that includes all inaugural addresses and State of the Union messages from 1789 to 2008, as well as major foreign and security policy speeches after 1945, this research monograph analyzes the vario...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Austermühl, Frank (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Colección:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 53.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • American echoes: On intertextuality in American presidential discourse
  • "The voice of the nation": The democratization of American presidential discourse
  • "To declare to the world": Inaugural addresses, eternal topoi, and American civil religion
  • "Freedom and fear are at war": The making of an American hypotext
  • "In the words of ... ": Sacred texts, lieux de mémoire, and presidential allusions
  • The Great American Scaffold.