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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.

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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

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