Talking with the President : the pragmatics of Presidential language /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilson, John, 1954 December 12- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States. Communication in politics > United States. Presidents > United States > Language. Pragmatics > Political aspects. Discourse analysis > Political aspects.

Table of Contents:

Hail to the Chief: Pragmatics and the President
Chapter Two: Talking pragmatics with the best and the brightest: John F Kennedy
Chapter Three: Lies, truth, and somewhere in between: Richard M. Nixon
Chapter Four: The narrative Presidency: Ronald Regan and stories from the White House
Chapter Five: It's language Jim, but not as we know it: William Jefferson Clinton
Chapter Six: Bring em on! the empire strikes back: George W. Bush
Chapter Seven: There and back again with Barack H Obama.