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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12011663
AutoresRichard Morris (0000-0003-0208-8440, Northern Illinois University, autor correspondente), Mary E Stuckey (0000-0002-8461-5066, University of Mississippi)
Ano1997
Volume64
Fascículo2
Páginas140-160
Data de publicação1997-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCommunication Monographs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0363-7751 • E-ISSN: 1479-5787
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03637759709376411
OpenAlexW1979763830
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências 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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