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ERIC Number: EJ475558
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-1051-0974
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Remembering the Future: Rhetorical Echoes of World War II and Vietnam in George Bush's Public Speech on the Gulf War.
Stuckey, Mary E.
Communication Studies, v43 n4 p246-56 Win 1992
Argues that, through his use of specific language choices, George Bush's Gulf War rhetoric embraced and supported the orientational metaphor of the World War II model, while simultaneously rejecting the Vietnam model. Concludes the use of the World War II model legitimated both the military action and Bush's leadership. (NH)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Foreign Policy, Higher Education, Language Usage, Moral Values, Public Relations, Rhetorical Criticism, Vietnam War, World War II
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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