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Publication details [#57715]

Slavíčková, Tess. 2013. The rhetoric of remembrance: Presidential Memorial Day speeches. Discourse & Society 24 (3) : 361–379.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

epideictic | ideology | political speech | rhetoric | self-presentation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper argues that, though regarded as a genre free of avowedly political content (epideixis can obscure ideological content), the US Presidential Memorial Day speeches corpus provides modest pictures of a nation’s self-image over time, but can also be considered holistically.