Patricia L Dunmire
Biographic Data
| ID | 739977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia L Dunmire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia L |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunmire |
| SIGNATURE | DUNMIRE P L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6886-7485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
When peace and freedom broke apart”: A rhetoric of values in early Cold War discourse
This project examines the role values played in early US Cold War discourse, focusing on the use and function of the morpheme free in President Truman’s and President Eisenhower’s State of the Union addresses. I examine the occurrence of free relative to similar values and demonstrate that both presidents privileged free in conceptualizing the conflict and justifying policies. I also analyze the forms through which free manifested and consider th…
Phil Graham: Critical Insights Into the Futurity of Discourse and the Discourse of Futurity
This essay examines Professor Phil Graham's contributions to the critical study of “futurology,” that is, the creation and use of projections of the future by elite social actors and institutions. Professor Graham was one of the first to examine the linguistic constitution and ideological implications of futurological projections within neoliberal discourses. I review this work and situate it within the broader field of Critical Futures Studies (…
America’s most precious resource’: The future in American national identity and foreign policy
Democratic peace as global errand: America’s post-Cold War foreign policy jeremiad
Focusing on the foreign policy discourse of George H. W. Bush and William Clinton, I examine the role the American jeremiad played in conceptualizing the geopolitical change initiated by the ending of the Cold War. I identify "extending the democratic peace" as the nation's post-Cold War "errand" and argue that this global mission represented the contemporary "re-dedication" of American policy to the nation's "divine cause." I demonstrate that a …
Beyond Space and Time: Temporal and geographical configurations in US national security discourse
This article examines the 'deictic signature' of the discourse worlds that are projected through representations of the Cold War and post-Cold War global security environments. I focus on the means by which US national security discourse creates 'threat environments' through historically specific renderings of the spatial configuration of global society and projections of the future. Specifically, I examine how the 'powerhouse' metaphor embedded …
Political Discourse Analysis: Exploring the Language of Politics and the Politics of Language
This essay overviews the body of research known as political discourse analysis (PDA). I begin by situating this work within the linguistic and political turns that took place in the latter part of the 20th century within the human and social sciences. I then discuss different conceptions of what comprisesthe politicaland the appropriate objects of study for PDA. Adopting an inclusive conception of politics and discourse, I consider the relations…
Projecting the Future through Political Discourse: The case of the Bush doctrine
This monograph examines the rhetorical nature and function of representations of the future in political discourse, focusing on political actors’ use of hegemonic images of future “reality” to achieve their political goals. It argues that a key ideological dimension of political rhetoric lies in politicians’ use of projections of the future to legitimate policies and actions. This argument is grounded in systemic-functional and critical discourse…
Changed Everything: An intertextual analysis of the Bush Doctrine
This article presents an intra- and inter-textual analysis of the `Bush Doctrine,' the security strategy response to 9/11 which sanctions a policy of preventive war. Using Thibault's (1991) framework of `critical, intertextual analysis,' I examine the Doctrine synchronically as it is articulated in the 2002 `National Security Strategy.' This analysis demonstrates the disjuncture created in NSS02 and the key discursive formations that underlie the…
Preempting the future: Rhetoric and ideology of the future in political discourse
This article posits that an important ideological component of political discourse derives from its representation of the future and the rhetorical functions those representations serve in implicating more immediate material and discursive actions. Working within a systemic-functional framework, this study demonstrates how representations of the future are embedded in and projected through political discourse and how the ‘public’ is implicated in…
Preempting the future: Rhetoric and ideology of the future in political discourse
This article posits that an important ideological component of political discourse derives from its representation of the future and the rhetorical functions those representations serve in implicating more immediate material and discursive actions. Working within a systemic-functional framework, this study demonstrates how representations of the future are embedded in and projected through political discourse and how the ‘public’ is implicated in…
Changed Everything: An intertextual analysis of the Bush Doctrine
This article presents an intra- and inter-textual analysis of the `Bush Doctrine,' the security strategy response to 9/11 which sanctions a policy of preventive war. Using Thibault's (1991) framework of `critical, intertextual analysis,' I examine the Doctrine synchronically as it is articulated in the 2002 `National Security Strategy.' This analysis demonstrates the disjuncture created in NSS02 and the key discursive formations that underlie the…
Political Discourse Analysis: Exploring the Language of Politics and the Politics of Language
This essay overviews the body of research known as political discourse analysis (PDA). I begin by situating this work within the linguistic and political turns that took place in the latter part of the 20th century within the human and social sciences. I then discuss different conceptions of what comprisesthe politicaland the appropriate objects of study for PDA. Adopting an inclusive conception of politics and discourse, I consider the relations…
Beyond Space and Time: Temporal and geographical configurations in US national security discourse
This article examines the 'deictic signature' of the discourse worlds that are projected through representations of the Cold War and post-Cold War global security environments. I focus on the means by which US national security discourse creates 'threat environments' through historically specific renderings of the spatial configuration of global society and projections of the future. Specifically, I examine how the 'powerhouse' metaphor embedded …
Democratic peace as global errand: America’s post-Cold War foreign policy jeremiad
Focusing on the foreign policy discourse of George H. W. Bush and William Clinton, I examine the role the American jeremiad played in conceptualizing the geopolitical change initiated by the ending of the Cold War. I identify "extending the democratic peace" as the nation's post-Cold War "errand" and argue that this global mission represented the contemporary "re-dedication" of American policy to the nation's "divine cause." I demonstrate that a …
Preempting the future: Rhetoric and ideology of the future in political discourse
This article posits that an important ideological component of political discourse derives from its representation of the future and the rhetorical functions those representations serve in implicating more immediate material and discursive actions. Working within a systemic-functional framework, this study demonstrates how representations of the future are embedded in and projected through political discourse and how the ‘public’ is implicated in…
Changed Everything: An intertextual analysis of the Bush Doctrine
This article presents an intra- and inter-textual analysis of the `Bush Doctrine,' the security strategy response to 9/11 which sanctions a policy of preventive war. Using Thibault's (1991) framework of `critical, intertextual analysis,' I examine the Doctrine synchronically as it is articulated in the 2002 `National Security Strategy.' This analysis demonstrates the disjuncture created in NSS02 and the key discursive formations that underlie the…
Projecting the Future through Political Discourse: The case of the Bush doctrine
This monograph examines the rhetorical nature and function of representations of the future in political discourse, focusing on political actors’ use of hegemonic images of future “reality” to achieve their political goals. It argues that a key ideological dimension of political rhetoric lies in politicians’ use of projections of the future to legitimate policies and actions. This argument is grounded in systemic-functional and critical discourse…
Political Discourse Analysis: Exploring the Language of Politics and the Politics of Language
This essay overviews the body of research known as political discourse analysis (PDA). I begin by situating this work within the linguistic and political turns that took place in the latter part of the 20th century within the human and social sciences. I then discuss different conceptions of what comprisesthe politicaland the appropriate objects of study for PDA. Adopting an inclusive conception of politics and discourse, I consider the relations…
Beyond Space and Time: Temporal and geographical configurations in US national security discourse
This article examines the 'deictic signature' of the discourse worlds that are projected through representations of the Cold War and post-Cold War global security environments. I focus on the means by which US national security discourse creates 'threat environments' through historically specific renderings of the spatial configuration of global society and projections of the future. Specifically, I examine how the 'powerhouse' metaphor embedded …
Democratic peace as global errand: America’s post-Cold War foreign policy jeremiad
Focusing on the foreign policy discourse of George H. W. Bush and William Clinton, I examine the role the American jeremiad played in conceptualizing the geopolitical change initiated by the ending of the Cold War. I identify "extending the democratic peace" as the nation's post-Cold War "errand" and argue that this global mission represented the contemporary "re-dedication" of American policy to the nation's "divine cause." I demonstrate that a …
America’s most precious resource’: The future in American national identity and foreign policy
When peace and freedom broke apart”: A rhetoric of values in early Cold War discourse
This project examines the role values played in early US Cold War discourse, focusing on the use and function of the morpheme free in President Truman’s and President Eisenhower’s State of the Union addresses. I examine the occurrence of free relative to similar values and demonstrate that both presidents privileged free in conceptualizing the conflict and justifying policies. I also analyze the forms through which free manifested and consider th…
Phil Graham: Critical Insights Into the Futurity of Discourse and the Discourse of Futurity
This essay examines Professor Phil Graham's contributions to the critical study of “futurology,” that is, the creation and use of projections of the future by elite social actors and institutions. Professor Graham was one of the first to examine the linguistic constitution and ideological implications of futurological projections within neoliberal discourses. I review this work and situate it within the broader field of Critical Futures Studies (…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Critical discourse analysis (5 works) · Ideology (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (4 works) · Law (4 works)