Political argumentation in the United States : historical and contemporary studies
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Political argumentation in the United States : historical and contemporary studies
（Argumentation in context / editors Frans van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, v. 7）
John Benjamins Pub., c2014
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In the United States, political argumentation occurs in institutionalized settings and the broader public forum, in efforts to resolve conflict and efforts to foster it, in settings with time limits and controversies that extend over centuries. From the ratification of the U.S. Constitution to the presidency of Barack Obama, this book contains twenty studies of U.S. political argumentation, grouped under four themes: early American political discourse, Abraham Lincoln's political argumentation, argumentation about foreign policy, and public policy argumentation since the 1960s.
Deploying methods of rhetorical criticism, argument analysis and evaluation, the studies are rich in contextual grounding and critical perspective. They integrate the European emphasis on politics as an argumentative context with the U.S. tradition of public address studies.
Two essays have never before been published. The others are retrieved from journals and books published between 1979 and 2014. The introductory essay is new for this volume.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: The field of political argumentation
- 2. Part I. Early American political argumentation
- 3. From "conflict" to "Constitutional question": Transformations in early American public discourse
- 4. John Tyler and the rhetoric of the accidental presidency
- 5. Debating slavery by proxy: The Texas annexation controversy
- 6. Henry Clay and the election of 1844: The limits of a rhetoric of compromise
- 7. Part II. Abraham Lincoln's political argumentation
- 8. Consistency and change in Lincoln's rhetoric about equality
- 9. "Public sentiment is everything": Lincoln's view of political persuasion
- 10. Lincoln and the House Divided: Launching a national political career
- 11. The Lincoln-Douglas debates revisited: The evolution of public argument
- 12. Philosophy and rhetoric in Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
- 13. Part III. Argumentation and American foreign policy
- 14. The self-sealing rhetoric of John Foster Dulles
- 15. Foreign policy as persuasion: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam
- 16. George W. Bush discovers rhetoric: September 20, 2001 and the U.S. response to terrorism
- 17. Making the case for war: Colin Powell at the United Nations
- 18. The U.S. and the world: The rhetorical dimensions of Obama's foreign policy
- 19. Part IV. American political argumentation since the 1960s
- 20. The Great Society as a rhetorical proposition
- 21. Lyndon Johnson redefines "equal opportunity": The beginnings of affirmative action
- 22. Civil rights and civil conflict: Presidential communication in crisis
- 23. Martin Luther King, the American Dream, and Vietnam: A collision of rhetorical trajectories
- 24. Reagan's safety net for the truly needy: The rhetorical uses of definition
- 25. Obama's Lincoln: Uses of the argument from historical analogy
- 26. Index
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