Reagan and public discourse in America / 
edited by Michael Weiler and W. Barnett Pearce. 
 - Tuscaloosa :  University of Alabama Press,  �1992. 
 - 1 online resource (xi, 351 pages). 
 - Studies in rhetoric and communication .
 - Studies in rhetoric and communication. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-337) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : the rhetorical analysis of the Reagan administration / W. Barnett Pearce, Michael Weiler -- Ceremonial discourse : the rhetorical ecology of the Reagan administration / Michael Weiler, W. Barnett Pearce -- Rhetoric, legitimation, and the end of the Cold War : Ronald Reagan at the Moscow Summit, 1988 / G. Thomas Goodnight -- President Reagan at the London Guildhall : a British interpretation / Robin Carter -- Acting like a president : or, what has Ronald Reagan done to political speaking? / J. Jeffrey Auer -- Antithesis and oxymoron : Ronald Reagan's figurative rhetorical structure / James Jasinski -- The transformation of actor to scene : some strategic grounds of the Reagan legacy / Jane Blankenship, Janette Kenner Muir -- A rhetorical ambush at Reykjavik : a case study of the transformation of discourse / W. Barnett Pearce, Deborah K. Johnson, Robert J. Branham -- The paranoid style in foreign policy : Ronald Reagan's control of the situation in Nicaragua / Jeff D. Bass -- When the shoe is on the other foot : the Reagan administration's treatment of the shootdown of Iran Air 655 / Marilyn J. Young -- The Reagan attack on welfare / Michael Weiler -- The city as marketplace : a rhetorical analysis of the urban enterprise zone policy / DeLysa Burnier, David Descutner -- Civil religion and public argument : Reagan as public priest of the antiabortion movement / Catherine Helen Palczewski. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0585212953 9780585212951 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Reagan, Ronald--Language.<br/>Reagan, Ronald--Oratory.<br/>Reagan, Ronald.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rhetoric--Political aspects--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Communication in politics--History--United States--20th century.<br/>HISTORY.<br/>Communication in politics.<br/>Language and languages.<br/>Oratory.<br/>Politics and government<br/>Rhetoric--Political aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E877.2  / .R425 1992eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.927/092