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Peer reviewedKelley, Colleen E. – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1988
Examines some of the rhetorical choices of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev which dramatize Soviet calls for nuclear weapons de-escalation. Speculates that Gorbachev's peace efforts are sincere, because they are motivated by twin crises of a failing economy and a threatened world community. (MS)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Disarmament, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Download full textKelley, Colleen E.; Troester, Rod – 1989
This essay examines some Republican communication behaviors which account in part for accusations that the use of negative strategies was unprecedented during the 1988 presidential campaign. It also explores some of the effects of those strategies on political communication behavior during the first year of the Bush Administration. It is suggested…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Elections, Mass Media Role
