War rhetoric of a little ally:Political implicatures and Aznar’s legitimatization of the war in Iraq

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-91

  Van Dijk, Teun A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Iraq; Legitimation; Political cognition; Political discourse; Political implicatures; Political rhetoric; War

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745307921     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.4.1.04dij     Document Type: Article

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