This research aims at laying out some basic features of question design in presidential press conferences to describe their use convey adversarial proposition. Underlying the observations is suggestion that innovation can be an important element social change political interviews context, and broadcast journalism more generally. It hypothesized present-day differ from those past aggressiveness,...

Este artigo tem o objetivo de caracterizar a grande estratégia dos Estados Unidos no período entre 1991 e 2017, verificando mudanças continuidades na política externa americana, com ênfase construção da ordem liberal internacional pós-Guerra Fria. A metodologia pesquisa consiste análise conteúdo fontes primárias, que são os documentos oficiais do governo americano intitulados em geral como Nati...

This paper introduces the concept of rational countefactuals which is an idea of identifying a counterfactual from the factual (whether perceived or real) that maximizes the attainment of the desired consequent. In counterfactual thinking if we have a factual statement like: ‘Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and consequently George Bush declared war on Iraq‘ then its counterfactuals is: ‘If Saddam...

Truth claims in political discourse are implicated in a dialogic process whereby political actors "assimilate, rework, and re-accentuate" prior discourse (Bakhtin 1986:89). While political actors themselves may view truth as an object to be discovered, I argue that discourse analysts are best served by viewing truth as an emergent property of this dialogic process. In this paper, I examine how ...

Staffing the top levels of executive branch is a high‐priority task for new presidents. Roughly 4,000 presidentially appointed positions are spread across branch, and appointees to most senior (nearly 1,200) require Senate confirmation. Throughout 2020 presidential campaign, then candidate Joe Biden promised select diverse set appointees. This article examines President Biden's commitment this ...

ABSTRACT The construction of threats and enemies is a constant in international politics, presidential rhetoric plays an important role this process. In article, we show how recent US speeches articulate narratives representations enemies. We will focus on the State Union addresses given by Bill Clinton (1993-2001), George W. Bush (2001-2009), Barack Obama (2009-2013), thus encompassing 20 year...