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Substitute vocabularies, Richard Nixon, and the construction of political reality

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12011663
AutoresRichard Morris (0000-0003-0208-8440, Northern Illinois University, autor de correspondencia), Mary E Stuckey (0000-0002-8461-5066, University of Mississippi)
Año1997
Volumen64
Número2
Páginas140-160
Fecha de publicación1997-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCommunication Monographs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0363-7751 • E-ISSN: 1479-5787
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03637759709376411
OpenAlexW1979763830
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas18

Through an analysis of the Nixon administration's rhetoric concerning Native Americans, this essay provides a framework for understanding rhetorical reconciliations between democratic political principle and repressive, even oppressive, political action. Our argument proceeds in three parts. We first provide a brief sketch of a key mechanism whereby practitioners of democracy seek to reconcile contradictions between principle and practice. We then identify, by way of illustration, the Nixon administration's political principles regarding Native Americans as articulated in various of Richard Nixon's speeches. Finally, we turn to an examination of the Nixon administration's efforts to reconcile their explicitly articulated principles and their subsequent practices

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