TY - BOOK ID - 67089679 TI - The great American scaffold PY - 2014 VL - 53 SN - 9789027206442 9789027270788 9027270783 9027206449 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia DB - UniCat KW - Discourse analysis KW - Communication in politics KW - Presidents KW - Political oratory KW - Speeches, addresses, etc., American KW - Political aspects KW - Communication in politics. KW - Political oratory. KW - Speeches, addresses, etc., American. KW - American orations KW - American speeches KW - Parliamentary oratory KW - Political speaking KW - Oratory KW - Politics, Practical KW - Public speaking KW - Rhetoric KW - Inaugural addresses of presidents (United States) KW - Occasional speeches KW - Political communication KW - Political science KW - Discourse grammar KW - Text grammar KW - Semantics KW - Semiotics KW - Political aspects. KW - Discourse analysis - Political aspects KW - Presidents - United States - Inaugural addresses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67089679 AB - Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses of a corpus of American presidential speeches that includes all inaugural addresses and State of the Union messages from 1789 to 2008, as well as major foreign and security policy speeches after 1945, this research monograph analyzes the various forms and functions of intertextual references found in the discourse of American presidents. Working within an original, interdisciplinary theoretical framework established by theories of intertextuality, discourse analysis, and presidential studies, the book discusses five different types of pr ER -