Discourses of Freedom of Speech: From the Enactment of the Bill of Rights to the Sedition Act of 1918 - Brossura

Rudanko, J.

 
9781349440511: Discourses of Freedom of Speech: From the Enactment of the Bill of Rights to the Sedition Act of 1918

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Freedom of speech is a tradition distinctive to American political culture, and this book focuses on major debates and discourses that shaped this tradition. It sheds fresh light on key Congressional debates in the early American Republic, developing and applying an approach to fallacy theory suitable to the study of political discourse.

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JUHANI RUDANKO is Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland. His recent work has focused on the system of English predicate complementation in recent centuries, and on the pragmatic analysis of political discourse in the early American Republic. His previous publications include Changes in Complementation in British and American English.

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9781137030597: Discourses of Freedom of Speech: From the Enactment of the Bill of Rights to the Sedition Act of 1918

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ISBN 10:  1137030593 ISBN 13:  9781137030597
Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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