Talking with the President
The Pragmatics of Presidential Language
This book provides a pragmatic analysis of presidential language. Pragmatics is concerned with meaning in context, or the relationship between what we say and what we mean. John Wilson explores the various ways in which U.S. Presidents have used language within specific social contexts to achieve specific objectives. This includes obfuscation, misdirection, the use of metaphor or ambiguity, or in some cases simply lying. He focuses on six presidents: John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald W. Reagan, William F. Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack H. Obama. These presidents cover most of the last half of the twentieth century, and the first…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-985881-1
- EAN: 9780199858811
- Produktnummer: 18392444
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'593 KB
Über den Autor
John Wilson is Professor of Communciation at the University of Ulster.
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