Talking with the President The Pragmatics of Presidential Language 1st editon by John WWilson ISBN 0190266856 9780190266851
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This book provides a pragmatic analysis of presidential language. Pragmatics is concerned with “meaning in context,” or the relationship between what we say and what we mean. John Wilson explores the various ways in which U.S. Presidents have used language within specific social contexts to achieve specific objectives. This includes obfuscation, misdirection, the use of metaphor or ambiguity, or in some cases simply lying. He focuses on six presidents: John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald W. Reagan, William F. Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack H. Obama. These presidents cover most of the last half of the twentieth century, and the first decade of the twenty first century, and each has been associated with a specific linguistic quality. John F. Kennedy was famed for his quality of oratory, Nixon for his manipulative use of language, Reagan for his gift of telling stories, Clinton for his ability to engage the public and to linguistically turn arguments and descriptions in particular directions. Bush, on the other hand, was famed for his inability to use language appropriately, and Obama returns us to the rhetorical flourishes of early Kennedy. In the case of each president, a range of specific examples are explored in order to highlight the ways in which a pragmatic analysis may provide an insight into presidential language. In many cases, what the president says is not necessarily what the president means.
Talking with the President The Pragmatics of Presidential Language 1st Table of contents:
1. Hail to the Chief
Introduction
Pragmatics and Presidential Language
Pragmatics: An Example
A Short Story about Pragmatics: Part One
First Interlude: Talking with the President
A Short Story about Pragmatics: Part Two
Second Interlude: Talking with the President Again
Pragmatics: A Short Story: Part Three
2. Talking Pragmatics with the Best and the Brightest
Introduction
Can a Roman Catholic Be President?
Reference, Meaning, and the Divided Self
What to Believe and What Not to Believe, That’s the Question?
You Can’t Fool All of the People All of the Time
3. Lies, Truth, and Somewhere in Between
Introduction
Taping Language and the Language of Tapes
I’m the President, Trust Me
Political Lies, Truth, and Pragmatics
Reasonable Inferences and Unreasonable Politicians
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth
Money for Ambassadors
Frost/Nixon
4. The Narrative Presidency
Introduction
The Political Story
The Storyteller from the White House
What’s the Story?
Telling the Story
Ideologies and Stories
Myths, Schemas, and Stories
Remarks in Seattle at the Silver Anniversary Dinner Honoring Senator Warren Magnunson
Remarks at the Swearing in of Homer Thornberry
5. It’s Language, Jim, but Not as We Know It
Introduction
Impeachment
The Truth, Nothing but the Truth, and Pragmatics
The Grand Jury
Humpty Dumpty on the Ropes: Intentions, Semantic Underdetermination, and Pragmatics
Clinton Takes a Stand: The Presidential Stance
You Call That an Apology?
The View from Clinton’s Window
6. Bring ’em on! The Empire Strikes Back
Introduction
Problems at the Ranch: Bush Speak?
“Did I just say those words”: George W. Bush
What Has Pragmatics Got to Do with It?
Pragmatics, Explanation, and Accounts of Action?
What Is an Explanation?
God Made Me Do It?
No More Heroes: Pragmatic Interpretation and Versions of Reality in the Iraq War
The Excuse for Torture and Tortured Excuses
7. There and Back Again with Barack H. Obama
Introduction
Emotion, Politics, and Pragmatics
Language Emotions and Thought
Embodied Pragmatics
The Return of the President
A Different Kind of “Race”
Presidential Debates
Debating Troubles
You Can’t Argue When There Is Nothing to Argue About
Pragmatic Blocking or “Talk to the Hand”
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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