Publications

Publication details [#42659]

Dunmire, Patricia L. 2005. Preempting the future: rhetoric and ideology of the future in political discourse. Discourse & Society 16 (4) : 481–513.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | ideology | political language | rhetoric

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study uses a systemic-functional framework to examine representations of the future and implications of the public in political discourse, focusing on President Bush’s speech of 7 October 2002, toward a lay audience, presenting his rationale for war against Iraq.