The Linguistics of Political Argument: The Spin-Doctor and the Wolf-Pack at the White House

by Alan Partington

Book Overview

This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides. A corpus was compiled of around fifty press briefings from the late Clinton years. A wide range of topics are discussed from the Kosovo crisis to the Clinton-Lewinsky affair.
This work is highly original in demonstrating how concordance technology and the detailed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415287138
• ISBN13: 9780415287135
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 8.9"