A Critical Search for Values in George W. Bush's State of the Union Addresses

ISBN-13: 9783631664834 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 269 str.

Agnieszka Sowinska; Agnieszka Sowianska

Opis

What values are invoked in the speeches? How are these values constructed? How can they be classified? How are particular construals of values conducive to the actions the speaker wants to legitimize? This book focuses on values and valuation in the State of the Union addresses delivered by the former US President George W Bush.

Spis treści

Contents: Value and evaluation in Critical Discourse Studies – Ideology – Linguistic tools for the articulation of evaluation in political discourse – Legitimization – Proximization – Polish axiological linguistics – President George W. Bush’s State of the Union addresses – Freedom – Security – Terrorism – War on terror.

O autorze

Agnieszka Sowinska is Assistant Professor at the English Department of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. Her research interests include Critical Discourse Studies and the language of evaluation, linguistic pragmatics, and communication in primary care.