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An Addiction To Capitalism: A Rhetorical Criticism Of Mainstream Environmentalism, Jake Engel
An Addiction To Capitalism: A Rhetorical Criticism Of Mainstream Environmentalism, Jake Engel
IdeaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Cal Poly Humboldt
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Foreign Policy Rhetoric In The 1992 Presidential Campaign: Bill Clinton’S Exceptionalist Jeremiad, Jason A. Edwards
Foreign Policy Rhetoric In The 1992 Presidential Campaign: Bill Clinton’S Exceptionalist Jeremiad, Jason A. Edwards
Speaker & Gavel
This essay examines presidential candidate Bill Clinton’s rhetoric regarding America’s role in the world during the 1992 presidential campaign. Despite the fact that foreign policy was George H.W. Bush’s strength during the campaign, candidate Clinton was able to develop a coherent vision for America’s role in the world that he carried into his presidency. I argue he did so by fusing together the American exceptionalist missions of exemplar and intervention. In doing so, Clinton altered a tension embedded in debates over U.S. foreign policy rhetoric. To further differentiate his candidacy from President Bush, Clinton encased this discourse within a secular …
Threat And Threatening Language: Public Discourse On Iraq, Ibpp Editor
Threat And Threatening Language: Public Discourse On Iraq, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article explores the relationship of language, the construction of threat, and the constructor’s response to that which is constructed.