Imagine There's No President
The Rhetorical Secret and the Exposure of Valerie Plame
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9237164 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Atilla Hallsby (0000-0003-2302-4315, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 354-378 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00335630.2015.1024276 |
| OpenAlex | W1969020118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Covering a wide range of public discourse from 2003 to 2010 about CIA agent Valerie Plame, this essay contributes a novel rhetorical theory of secrets. By contrast to other critiques of the Bush-era secrecy that focus on policies the administration kept concealed from the public, I suggest that rhetoric is the means by which subjects figure the secret, to be understood as knowledge in the fact that the subject cannot know. To make this argument, I draw on the theoretical tools of psychoanalysis and the rhetorical tropes of repetition, caesura, and synecdoche
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Metonymy · Political science · Repetition (rhetorical device) · Rhetoric · Rhetorical criticism · Rhetorical question · Secrecy · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Synecdoche · Computer Science · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Medicine · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |