The great American scaffold
Subtitle: intertextuality and identity in American presidential discourse
By: Frank Austermühl, the University of Auckland
Series: Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture -- Volume 53; Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture -- v. 53.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9789027206442; 9789027270788
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Political aspects; Communication in politics; Presidents; Inaugural addresses; Political oratory; Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Table of contents: title: American echoes: On intertextuality in American presidential discourse; title: "The voice of the nation": The democratization of American presidential discourse; title: "To declare to the world": Inaugural addresses, eternal topoi, and American civil religion; title: "Freedom and fear are at war": The making of an American hypotext; title: "In the words of ...": Sacred texts, lieux de mémoire, and presidential allusions; title: The Great American Scaffold.