Reagan and public discourse in america
By: Michael Weiler and W. Barnett Pearce.
Contributors: Weiler, Michael, 1949-; Pearce, W. Barnett.
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Univ Of Alabama Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780817354077
Subjects: Reagan, Ronald -- Language; Reagan, Ronald -- Oratory; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Communication in politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century; English language -- United States -- Rhetoric; United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the rhetorical analysis of the Reagan administration / W. Barnett Pearce, Michael Weiler; title: Ceremonial discourse : the rhetorical ecology of the Reagan administration / Michael Weiler, W. Barnett Pearce; title: Rhetoric, legitimation, and the end of the Cold War : Ronald Reagan at the Moscow Summit, 1988 / G. Thomas Goodnight; title: President Reagan at the London Guildhall : a British interpretation / Robin Carter; title: Acting like a president : or, what has Ronald Reagan done to political speaking? / J. Jeffrey Auer; title: Antithesis and oxymoron : Ronald Reagan's figurative rhetorical structure / James Jasinski; title: The transformation of actor to scene : some strategic grounds of the Reagan legacy / Jane Blankenship, Janette Kenner Muir; title: A rhetorical ambush at Reykjavik : a case study of the transformation of discourse / W. Barnett Pearce, Deborah K. Johnson, Robert J. Branham; title: The paranoid style in foreign policy : Ronald Reagan's control of the situation in Nicaragua / Jeff D. Bass; title: When the shoe is on the other foot : the Reagan administration's treatment of the shootdown of Iran Air 655 / Marilyn J. Young; title: The Reagan attack on welfare / Michael Weiler; title: The city as marketplace : a rhetorical analysis of the urban enterprise zone policy / DeLysa Burnier, David Descutner; title: Civil religion and public argument : Reagan as public priest of the antiabortion movement / Catherine Helen Palczewski.