Re: Rhetoric of Presidential Declarations of War

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From: Tom Benson 814-865-4201
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1993 21:14

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>From:         Gary Hatch <HATCHG@JKHBHRC.BYU.EDU>
>Subject:      Rhetoric of Presidential Declarations of War

>I have a student who is writing on thesis on the rhetoric of
>presidential declarations of war.  Are any of you familiar with work
>done on this or related topics?

Your student should certainly be familiar with Hermann Stelzner,
"'War Message,' December 8, 1941: An Approach to Language,"
COMMUNICATION MONOGRAPHS 33 (1966): 419-437; and with several
essays and a book on this subject by Robert L. Ivie (see Matlon,
INDEX TO JOURNALS IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES) for specific references
to Ivie's articles.

See also chapter 6, "War Rhetoric," in K. K. Campbell and
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, DEEDS DONE IN WORDS (Chicago: Univ of
Chicago Press, 1990).

A recent dissertation by James Tarbox at Penn State University
traces Woodrow Wilson's rhetoric as U.S. involvement in WWI
grew closer.

This just scratches the surface--there is a fair amount of material.

Tom Benson
Penn State

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Subject:      Re: Rhetoric of Presidential Declarations of War
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