The Great American Scaffold: Intertextuality And Identity In American Presidential Discourse (discourse Approaches To Politics, Society And Culture)
by Frank Austermühl /
2014 / English / PDF
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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 various forms and
functions of intertextual references found in the discourse of
American presidents. Working within an original, interdisciplinary
theoretical framework established by theories of intertextuality,
discourse analysis, and presidential studies, the book discusses
five different types of presidential intertextuality, all of which
contribute jointly to creating a set of carefully manipulated and
politically powerful images of both the American nation and the
American presidency. The book is intended for scholars and students
in political and presidential studies, communications, American
cultural studies, and linguistics, as well as anyone interested in
the American presidency in general.
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 various forms and
functions of intertextual references found in the discourse of
American presidents. Working within an original, interdisciplinary
theoretical framework established by theories of intertextuality,
discourse analysis, and presidential studies, the book discusses
five different types of presidential intertextuality, all of which
contribute jointly to creating a set of carefully manipulated and
politically powerful images of both the American nation and the
American presidency. The book is intended for scholars and students
in political and presidential studies, communications, American
cultural studies, and linguistics, as well as anyone interested in
the American presidency in general.