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The American Rhetorical Construction of the Iranian Nuclear Threat (Paperback)
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The American Rhetorical Construction of the Iranian Nuclear Threat (Paperback)
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This book analyzes the rhetorical construction of the Iranian
nuclear threat during the Bush presidency, and US/Iran relations
more generally. From 2002 to 2008, the Bush administration argued
that Iran was developing nuclear weapons, despite years of
inconclusive International Atomic Energy Agency inspection reports.
In the absence of substantive evidence, much of the debate was
conducted via public forums with a heavy persuasive element to the
discourse. This book offers an in-depth consideration of the
rhetoric surrounding Iran's controversial nuclear programme. It
takes an interdisciplinary approach, examining speeches,
interviews, news reports, online message boards and newspaper
layouts during the Bush Presidency (2000-2008). Engaging with
visual grammar and narrative, the book looks at layouts from the
"Associated Press", "The New York Times", and, "The Washington
Post", amongst others. The book points out, using rhetorical theory
and discourse analysis, the conditions that lent credibility to the
Bush administration's position by examining the arguments Bush and
his political surrogates put forward, and the discourse strategies
that influenced which ideas gained salience and which were
downplayed. Political communication and Foucault's theory of
governmentality are brought in to articulate the implications
regarding the influence, importance and expansion of executive
power.
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