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How did the G. W. Bush administration manage to persuade Americans to go to war in Iraq in March 2003? How was this intervention, and the global campaign named as â oewar-on-terror, â legitimised linguistically? This book shows that the best legitimisation effects in political discourse are accomplished through the use of â oeproximizationâ â "a cognitive-rhetorical strategy that draws on the speakerâ (TM)s ability to present events as directly and increasingly affecting the addressee, usually i

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Author

Piotr Cap, Author

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443845533

Category

language

Subjects

Political Science, Language Learning, History

Updated

2026-03-24