Publications

Publication details [#21052]

Zimmerman, Rüdiger. 1988. Selling SDI to Europeans: Arguments, metaphors, and adversary images. Multilingua 7 (1-2) : 159–175.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | metaphor | newspaper report

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

How do leading papers in Western democracies present crucial security issues to their educated and influential readership? This question is approached with respect to the public debate about Star Wars/SDI, drawing mostly on the Economist.