Remembering the future: Rhetorical echoes of world war II and vietnam in george bush's publi c speech on the gulf war

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Abstract

This essay provides an exegesis of George Bush's Gulf War rhetoric in terms of the World War II and Vietnam Wars and the presidential rhetoric in which they were embedded. The essay argues that Bush's rhetoric embraced and supported the orientational metaphor of the World War II paradigm, while simultaneously rejecting the Vietnam paradigm, through his use of specific language choices.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)246-256
Number of pages11
JournalCommunication Studies
Volume43
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 1992

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  • Communication

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