Language and the nuclear arms debate : nukespeak today
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Language and the nuclear arms debate : nukespeak today
（Open linguistics series）
F. Pinter, 1985
- pbk.
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Bibliography: p. [231]-238
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An introduction to the rhetorical devices used by politicians and others to control audience attitudes towards nuclear issues, this offers models of rhetoric, pragmatics, discourse analysis and semiotics in order to assess both the efficiency and the possible flaws of these devices.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Language, text, discourse: the war against peacemongering, Roger Fowler and Tim Marshall
- pragmatics of speeches against the peace movement in Britain, Kay Richardson
- rhetoric of defence in the USA, Peter Moss
- discourses, texts, readers and the pro-nuclear arguments, Gunther Kress. Part 2 The discourse of deterrence: the logic of deterrence, William van Belle and Paul Claes
- words, discourse and metaphors, Paul Chilton. Part 3 Aspects of media discourse: getting the message across, Bob Hodge
- cultural silence, Peter Moss
- disintegrating narrative, Peter Jeffrey and Michael O'Toole
- "nothing left to laugh at...", Bob Hodge and Alan Mansfield. Part 4 Towards a critical linguistics: the concept of context and the theory of action, Erich Steiner.
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