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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Austermühl, Frank (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Series:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 53.
Subjects:
Discourse analysis > Political aspects.
Communication in politics.
Presidents > United States > Inaugural addresses.
Political oratory.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Communication politique.
Éloquence politique.
Discours américains.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration.
Communication in politics
Discourse analysis > Political aspects
Political oratory
Presidents
Speeches, addresses, etc., American
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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