The Great Nation of Futurity

The Discourse and Temporality of American National Identity

Patricia L. Dunmire (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-765822-2 (ISBN)

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The Great Nation of Futurity is situated within the discourse and ideology of American exceptionalism which has undergirded the nation's identity throughout its history. It draws out the temporal dimension of the exceptionalist ideology, namely the construal of America as the "great nation of futurity," and examines how this identity manifests linguistically and functions rhetorically in Cold War foreign policy discourse. Working within a critical discourse analytic framework, Patricia L. Dunmire examines the space-times construed within foreign policy discourse and demonstrates that these consistently position the United States in a privileged position vis-à-vis the future. This positioning, in turn, sanction a foreign policy approach focused on global future design.

Patricia L. Dunmire is a Professor of Rhetoric & Composition at Kent State University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in argumentation and discourse studies. Using a critical discourse studies approach, her work examines the discursive construal and rhetorical function of projections of the future within political discourse. Her work has been published in several journals, including Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse & Society, and The Journal of Language and Politics, as well as in edited volumes, and she is the author of Projecting the Future through Political Discourse.

Preface
Chapter 1 Futurity National Identity and Foreign Policy Discourse
Chapter 2 America's Most Precious Resource
Chapter 3 Vistas to the Future
Chapter 4 New Vistas of Opportunity
Chapter 5 Alerting America
Chapter 6 From the American Century to the End of History: An American Future of Democratic Peace
Chapter 7 The Future of American Exceptionalism
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Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	OXFORD STUDIES SOCIOLINGUISTICS SERIES
Zusatzinfo	20 Tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 163 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-765822-9 / 0197658229
ISBN-13	978-0-19-765822-2 / 9780197658222
Zustand	Neuware