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Words of Crisis as Words of Power: The jeremiad in American presidential speeches
Marta Neüff
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 77] 2018
► pp. 17–51

Chapter 2
The rhetorical presidency, presidential crisis rhetoric, and the American jeremiad

Article outline
  • 2.1The rhetorical presidency
    • 2.1.1Presidential power to persuade
    • 2.1.2Traditional and modern presidency
  • 2.2Presidential crisis rhetoric
    • 2.2.1Presidential crisis rhetoric as a genre
      • Media framing of crisis
    • 2.2.2Narrating crisis: Metaphors, myths, and intertextuality
    • 2.2.3Metaphor and crisis: How do metaphors function?
    • 2.2.4Othering
  • 2.3The American jeremiad
    • 2.3.1The American jeremiad: America’s first distinct genre
    • 2.3.2Biblical vs. American jeremiad: The mythology of mission
    • 2.3.3The myth of American exceptionalism as root of the civil-religious jeremiad
    • 2.3.4Civil religion and presidential rhetoric in times of crisis
    • 2.3.5How do jeremiads function? Constructing a narrative between hope and fear
    • 2.3.6Conclusions and working definitions: Modern jeremiads and jeremiadic speech
  • Notes