Inception: How the Unsaid May Become Public Knowledge
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Inception : How the Unsaid May Become Public Knowledge. / Kock, Christian Erik J.
Rhetoric, Discourse and Knowledge. ed. / Maria Załęska; Urszula Okulska. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2016. p. 275-286 (Studies in Language, Culture and Society, Vol. 9).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Inception
T2 - How the Unsaid May Become Public Knowledge
AU - Kock, Christian Erik J
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - The paper uses H.P. Grice’s concept of conversational implicature, and concepts based on Gricean thinking, in a rhetorical analysis of several passages in President George W. Bush’s speeches prior to the invasion of Iraq. It is suggested that the passages in question, along with many others, were apt to suggest to audiences something that Bush never asserted and ostensibly denied, namely that he believed Saddam Hussein to have been complicit in the 9/11 terrorist acts. Three types of suggestive mechanism are analyzed. They are offered as examples of rhetorical devices used in political communication that may create a kind of “public knowledge” that has not been asserted, supported with reasons, or reflected upon.
AB - The paper uses H.P. Grice’s concept of conversational implicature, and concepts based on Gricean thinking, in a rhetorical analysis of several passages in President George W. Bush’s speeches prior to the invasion of Iraq. It is suggested that the passages in question, along with many others, were apt to suggest to audiences something that Bush never asserted and ostensibly denied, namely that he believed Saddam Hussein to have been complicit in the 9/11 terrorist acts. Three types of suggestive mechanism are analyzed. They are offered as examples of rhetorical devices used in political communication that may create a kind of “public knowledge” that has not been asserted, supported with reasons, or reflected upon.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Conversational implicature
KW - political communication
KW - George W. Bush
KW - suggestion
KW - Saddam
KW - 9/11
KW - fuzzy reference
KW - sentence collocation
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9783631668160
T3 - Studies in Language, Culture and Society
SP - 275
EP - 286
BT - Rhetoric, Discourse and Knowledge
A2 - Załęska, Maria
A2 - Okulska, Urszula
PB - Peter Lang
CY - Frankfurt am Main
ER -
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