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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 77921867
TI  - Legitimisation in political discourse : a cross-disciplinary perspective on the modern US war rhetoric
PY  - 2010
SN  - 1443845531 9781443845533 1443825697 9781443825696
PB  - Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
DB  - UniCat
KW  - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011.
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - English language
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Discourse grammar
KW  - Text grammar
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Speaking
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Expression
KW  - Literary style
KW  - Anglo-American Invasion of Iraq, 2003-2011
KW  - Dawn, Operation New, 2010-2011
KW  - Gulf War II, 2003-2011
KW  - Iraqi Freedom, Operation, 2003-2010
KW  - New Dawn, Operation, 2010-2011
KW  - Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010
KW  - Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011
KW  - Operation Telic, 2003-2011
KW  - Persian Gulf War, 2003-2011
KW  - Telic, Operation, 2003-2011
KW  - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
KW  - Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism, 2001-2009
KW  - Global War on Terror, 2001-2009
KW  - GWOT, 2001-2009 (War on Terrorism)
KW  - Terror War, 2001-2009
KW  - Terrorism War, 2001-2009
KW  - War against Terrorism, 2001-2009
KW  - War on Terror, 2001-2009
KW  - Military history, Modern
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - World politics
KW  - Afghan War, 2001
KW  - -Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001
KW  - -Political aspects
KW  - Rhetoric.
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Afghan War, 2001-2021
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Germanic languages
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77921867
AB  - How did the G. W. Bush administration manage to persuade Americans to go to war in Iraq in March 2003? How was this intervention, and the global campaign named as "war-on-terror," legitimised linguistically? This book shows that the best legitimisation effects in political discourse are accomplished through the use of "proximization"-a cognitive-rhetorical strategy that draws on the speaker's ability to present events as directly and increasingly affecting the addressee, usually in a negative...
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