J. Rudanko 
Discourses of Freedom of Speech [PDF ebook] 
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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Introduction Informal Fallacies in Two Procedural Debates on the Bill of Rights in the Summer of 1789 The Decision of August 13, 1789 Divisions of Freedom of Speech: Debates of November 1794 Freedom of Speech under Threat: the Sedition Act of 1798 Contesting and Defeating the Sedition Act of 1798 ‘[T]his most unnecessary, unjust, and disgraceful war’: Attacks on the Madison Administration in Federalist Newspapers during the War of 1812 Woodrow Wilson and the Threat to Freedom of Speech Concluding Observations Notes References Index

A propos de l’auteur

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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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 201 ● ISBN 9781137030603 ● Taille du fichier 1.1 MB ● Maison d’édition Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Lieu London ● Pays GB ● Publié 2012 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 4971428 ● Protection contre la copie DRM sociale

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