Controlling the discourse

Interviews with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12877232
AutoresJason B Jones (0000-0001-7776-0292, University of Washington, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume7
Fascículo2
Páginas127-141
Data de publicação2010-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Discourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1740-5904 • E-ISSN: 1740-5912
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17405901003675448
OpenAlexW1999073132
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas20

Iran's nuclear program has garnered a great deal of media attention for nearly a decade, yet critical discourse scholars have been relatively silent on the matter. To spur more scholarship on the nuclear controversy, this study examines the language of nine interviews with former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Analyzing the opening questions of topic shifts, the relationship of scope and topic, and Secretary Rice's portrayal of the US and Iran, I argue that Rice used her media access as a platform to encourage audiences to see Iran's nuclear program as a nuclear weapons program, often with the complicity of her interviewers and always without evidence. In the wake of the unilateralist American invasion of Iraq, Secretary Rice also worked to rebuild a positive image of the White House as she presented the US as a proponent of multilateral diplomacy as opposed to her portrayal of the Islamic Republic as a rogue state

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