Patrizia Ardizzone

Political Discourse
as Culture and Ideology

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Pag 7 Introduction

Chapter 1
9 - Political Discourse and CDA
9 1.1 - Specialised languages and political language
16 1.2 - Defining political language: power and ideology
19 1.3 - The language of politics: persuasion and manipulation
19 1.3.1 - Persuasion
29 1.3.2 - Manipulation
37 1.3.3 - Manipulation, hegemony and discourse
48 1.4-van Dijk and CDA
57 1.4.1- van Dijk and discourse structures
65 1.5- Fairclough and CDA
72 1.5.1 - Fairclough and social institution
78 1.6 - CDA and the cognitive aspect of communication
85 1.7 - Re-contextualizing discourse
88 1.8- Analysing the relationship speaker/audience

Chapter 2
99 - Presidential Discourse and The War
99 2.1 - Critical discourse analysis and rhetoric
103 2.2.-The role of pronouns
106 2.3 - Pronouns as persuasion
116 2.4 - Ethos in Truman and Bush
118 2.5-Pathos
119 2.6 -Logos
121 2.7 - Rhetorical features
126 2.8 - The role of metaphor

Chapter 3
131 - Political Discourse and the Inaugural Address
131 3.1 - Political discourse and the role of 'speechwriters'
134 3.2 - GW. Bush and the power of words

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 Chapter 4
145 - Political Discourse and Colonialism
145 4.1. Macmillan and 'the wind of change'
151 4.2 Mandela and 'closing the circle'

Chapter 5
157 - Political Discourse and Delivery
157 5.1 - Delivery: pathos and ethos
160 5.2 -Discourse as culture and ideology
170 5.3 - The indirectness of Tony Blair
175 5.4- The'spin-doctors'
179 5.5 - The power of pronouns in Thatcher and Blair

Chapter 6
183 - Political Discourse in King and Kennedy
183 6.1 - King and'I have a dream'
190 6.2 - Kennedy and 'the power of three'

197 Conclusions

199 Appendix
201 1. Speech: "President Harry Truman on the Korean War" 1953
205 2. "President Bush: President Delivers State of the Union
Address 2002"
219 3. "Address by Harold Macmillan to Members of both Houses
of the Parliament of the Union of South Africa, Cape Town, 3
February 1960"
233 4. J. F. Kennedy: Civil Right Address, delivered 11 June 1963
239 5.Address By President Mandela To UK Parliament July 1996
247 6. Tony Blair: "A Beacon to the World" 1997
255 7. Remarks of Senator Barack Obama: "Reclaiming the
American.Dream", El Dorado, KS / January 29, 2008

265 References

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