Intertextuality and the 24-Hour News Cycle: A Day in the Rhetorical Life of Colin Powell's U.N. Address

Contents

Contents x List of Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Notational Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Introduction. The Rhetorical Life of Colin Powell’s U.N. Speech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter One. The Campaign for War in Iraq: Contextualizing Powell’s Speech in Political and Media Discourse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Chapter Two. The Chief Prosecutor and the Iraqi Regime: Intertextual Ethos and Transitive Chains of Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Chapter Three. Undercutting Saddam’s Denials: Precontextualization and Audience Alignment . . . . 77 Chapter Four. America’s Best Intelligence: Recontextualization and Rhetorical Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Chapter Five. Political Discourse, the Press, and the Public Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Appendix A. Data Corpus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Appendix B. Synoptic Views of Discourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Appendix C. Intertextual Precedents for Powell’s Arguments . . . . . 217 Appendix D. Attitudinal Discourse in Linguistic and Multimodal Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Appendix E. Attitudes about Powell and Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Appendix F. Conventions of Precontextualization in Mainstream Journalism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Appendix G. The Engagement System, Temporality, and Presence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Appendix H. Coding Categories for Audience Repositioning . . . . . 261 Appendix I. A Four-Phased Analytic Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 ...