Inception: How the Unsaid May Become Public Knowledge

Christian Erik J Kock

Inception: How the Unsaid May Become Public Knowledge

Institut for Kommunikation

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Abstract

The paper uses H.P. Grice’s concept of conversational implicature, and concepts based on Gricean thinking, in a rhetorical analysis of several passages in President George W. Bush’s speeches prior to the invasion of Iraq. It is suggested that the passages in question, along with many others, were apt to suggest to audiences something that Bush never asserted and ostensibly denied, namely that he believed Saddam Hussein to have been complicit in the 9/11 terrorist acts. Three types of suggestive mechanism are analyzed. They are offered as examples of rhetorical devices used in political communication that may create a kind of “public knowledge” that has not been asserted, supported with reasons, or reflected upon.

Originalsprog	Dansk
Publikationsdato	7 dec. 2016
Antal sider	15
Status	Udgivet - 7 dec. 2016
Begivenhed	Rhetoric in Society 5 conference: Rhetoric in the Knowledge Society - University of Warsaw, faculty of Modern Languages, Warszawa, Polen Varighed: 24 jun. 2015 → 26 jun. 2015 Konferencens nummer: 5

Konference

Konference	Rhetoric in Society 5 conference
Nummer	5
Lokation	University of Warsaw, faculty of Modern Languages
Land/Område	Polen
By	Warszawa
Periode	24/06/2015 → 26/06/2015

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