Graphing the grammar of motives in National Security Strategies: Cultural interpretation, automated text analysis and the drama of global politics

Poetics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 670-700

  Mohr, John W ^a   Wagner Pacifici, Robin ^b   Breiger, Ronald L ^c   Bogdanov, Petko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated text analysis; Dramatism; Kenneth Burke; Rhetorics of states; Semantic and poetic meaning; U.S. National Security Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888128692     PISSN: 0304422X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2013.08.003     Document Type: Article

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