Our own worst enemy as protector of ourselves
Subtitle: stereotypes, schemas, and typifications as integral elements in the persuasive process
By: Byron B. Renz
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780761847045; 9780761847052
Subjects: Persuasion (Rhetoric); Mass media and propaganda
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the function of persuasion in propaganda; title: Media, fear, and the consolidation of state power; title: The enthymeme as a persuasive device in terrorists' media messages; title: Social construction of media-generated terrorist images; title: Media imagery : generator of oppositional schemas that fuel world conflict; title: From the seed to the tree and back again : definition of linguistic purpose; title: Propoganda : from theory to practice.