Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Notational Scheme
Introduction. The Rhetorical Life of Colin Powell’s U.N. Speech
Chapter One. The Campaign for War in Iraq: Contextualizing Powell’s Speech in Political and Media Discourse
Chapter Two. The Chief Prosecutor and the Iraqi Regime: Intertextual Ethos and Transitive Chains of Authority
Chapter Three. Undercutting Saddam’s Denials: Precontextualization and Audience Alignment
Chapter Four. America’s Best Intelligence: Recontextualization and Rhetorical Transformation
Chapter Five. Political Discourse, the Press, and the Public Good
Appendix A. Data Corpus
Appendix B. Synoptic Views of Discourse
Appendix C. Intertextual Precedents for Powell’s Arguments
Appendix D. Attitudinal Discourse in Linguistic and Multimodal Texts
Appendix E. Attitudes about Powell and Iraq
Appendix F. Conventions of Precontextualizationin Mainstream Journalism
Appendix G. The Engagement System, Temporality, and Presence
Appendix H. Coding Categories for Audience Repositioning
Appendix I. A Four- Phased Analytic Approach
Notes
Bibliography
Index