Preempting the future: Rhetoric and ideology of the future in political discourse

Discourse and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 481-513

  Dunmire, Patricia L ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Evidentiality; Field; Future; Future reality; Ideology; Intertextual context; Modality; Mood; National Security Strategy; Nominalization; Political discourse; President Bush; Public; Saddam Hussein Iraq; Systemic functional linguistics; Tenor relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944438780     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926505053052     Document Type: Review

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