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Intertextuality and the 24-Hour News Cycle : A Day in the Rhetorical Life of Colin Powell's U.N. Address /
"On a cold Wednesday morning in February 2003 Colin Powell argued before the United Nations Security Council that Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction. Before the speech, nearly 90 percent of Americans reported that Powell's speech would help them determine their view about invading I...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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East Lansing, Michigan :
Michigan State University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Notational Scheme; Introduction. The Rhetorical Life of Colin Powell's U.N. Speech; Chapter One. The Campaign for War in Iraq: Contextualizing Powell's Speech in Political and Media Discourse; Chapter Two. The Chief Prosecutor and the Iraqi Regime: Intertextual Ethos and Transitive Chains of Authority; Chapter Three. Undercutting Saddam's Denials: Precontextualization and Audience Alignment; Chapter Four. America's Best Intelligence: Recontextualization and Rhetorical Transformation; Chapter Five. Political Discourse, the Press, and the Public Good.
- Appendix A. Data CorpusAppendix B. Synoptic Views of Discourse; Appendix C. Intertextual Precedents for Powell's Arguments; Appendix D. Attitudinal Discourse in Linguistic and Multimodal Texts; Appendix E. Attitudes about Powell and Iraq; Appendix F. Conventions of Precontextualizationin Mainstream Journalism; Appendix G. The Engagement System, Temporality, and Presence; Appendix H. Coding Categories for Audience Repositioning; Appendix I.A Four- Phased Analytic Approach; Notes; Bibliography; Index.