Constitutive rhetoric reconsidered: Constitutive paradoxes in G. W. Bush's Iraq war speeches

Western Journal of Communication

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 272-293

  Zagacki, Kenneth S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constitutive rhetoric; Foreign policy; G. W. Bush; War in Iraq

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749042626     PISSN: 10570314     EISSN: 17451027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10570310701653786     Document Type: Article

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