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Discourses of Freedom of Speech

From the Enactment of the Bill of Rights to the Sedition Act of 1918
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201 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Palgrave Macmillanerschienen am16.10.20122012
Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse.mehr
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KlappentextFreedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse.
ZusammenfassungOffers a novel application of the methods of pragmatic analysis to debates and controversies surrounding the evolution of freedom of speech in the USAExamines rhetoric and speaker motivation in political speeches from 1789 to 1918Provides new insights on attempts by the Wilson administration to restrict freedom of speech and on the Congressional manoeuvres of their supportersSheds fresh light on criticism of the Madison administration during the War of 1812 by employing the framework of politeness and impoliteness theory
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-137-03059-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2012
Erscheinungsdatum16.10.2012
Auflage2012
Seiten201 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht392 g
IllustrationenVII, 201 p.
Artikel-Nr.18284072

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Informal Fallacies in Two Procedural Debates on the Bill of Rights in the Summer of 1789 The Decision of August 13, 1789 Divisions of Freedom of Speech: Debates of November 1794 Freedom of Speech under Threat: the Sedition Act of 1798 Contesting and Defeating the Sedition Act of 1798 '[T]his most unnecessary, unjust, and disgraceful war': Attacks on the Madison Administration in Federalist Newspapers during the War of 1812 Woodrow Wilson and the Threat to Freedom of Speech Concluding Observations Notes References Indexmehr

Autor

JUHANI RUDANKO is Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. His recent work has focused on the system of English predicate complementation in recent centuries, and on the pragmatic analysis of political discourse in the early American Republic. His previous publications include Changes in Complementation in British and American English.