The Rhetoric of Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-313-27587-6 (ISBN)
As a test of his hypothesis, the author considers the responses of the Reagan and Nixon administrations to acts of terrorism. The Reagan administration's response to international terrorism provides an example of wholly non-democratic counterterrorist discourse. Leeman's case study suggests that this was a failed rhetoric. The Nixon administration, on the other hand, used a mixed democratic and non-democratic terrorist rhetoric in response to terrorism. Leeman argues that the non-democratic elements of the discourse subverted the democratic elements, thus leading to an ineffective use of discourse for the purpose of counterterrorism. Leeman thus concludes that a wholly democratic rhetoric is the best discourse available for the counterterrorist speaker or writer. This is the first book to specifically address the rhetoric of terrorism and counterterrorism, and prescriptively suggests how America can address the problem of terrorism through discourse. This unique book will be provocative reading to those in the fields of speech communication, political science, history, sociology, and the mass media.
RICHARD W. LEEMAN is an Assistant Professor of English and a member of the Communication Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the editor of Carolinas Speech Communication Annual and a contributing editor to Morality and Conviction in American Politics. He has contributed essays to American Orators of the Twentieth Century (Greenwood Press, 1987) and Multidimensional Terrorism.
Preface
The Problem of Terrorism
Rhetorical Strategies of Reflection
The Rhetoric of Terrorism
Counterterrorism Rhetoric: A Reflective Strategy
Democratic Rhetoric: A Non-Reflective Strategy
The Counterterrorist Rhetoric of the Reagan Administration
The Counterterrorist Rhetoric of the Nixon Administration
Conclusions
Selected Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.1.1991 |
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Reihe/Serie | Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 595 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-313-27587-4 / 0313275874 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-313-27587-6 / 9780313275876 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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