Dividing the world: The dichotomous rhetoric of Ronald Reagan
| dc.contributor.author | Halmari, Helena | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-17T16:07:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-17T16:07:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1993 | |
| dc.description | Article originally published in Mutilingua in 1993 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The language of politics often divides our world into two groups: those who share our own values, and those who supposedly oppose them. Ex-President Ronald Reagan was a master of the use of dichotomous language. His dichotomies were most clearly present in his descriptions of the U.S.- Soviet relations and the American and the Soviet military. The military build-up on the American side was exculpated, while the Soviet military build-up was vilified. With the change of the Soviet leadership in 1985, Reagan’s dichotomous thinking was challenged, and towards the end of Reagan’s presidency a slight change in his rhetoric can be noticed: he started to acknowledge a good side to the Soviet Union; however, there was often a tendency to denigrate the observed good. New areas of dichotomies arose, and vilification flourished till the end of his presidency. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | HALMARI, HELENA. "Dividing the world: The dichotomous rhetoric of Ronald Reagan". Multilingua , vol. 12, no. 2, 1993, pp. 143-176. https://doi.org/10.1515/mult.1993.12.2.143 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11875/3213 | |
| dc.publisher | Multilingua | en_US |
| dc.subject | dichotomous language | en_US |
| dc.subject | politic | en_US |
| dc.subject | vilification | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ronald Reagan | en_US |
| dc.title | Dividing the world: The dichotomous rhetoric of Ronald Reagan | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |