In:Argumentation in Actual Practice: Topical studies about argumentative discourse in context
Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
[Argumentation in Context 17] 2019
► pp. 103–116
Chapter 6Strategic ambiguity as an argumentative resource
The case of Lyndon Johnson, 50 years later
Published online: 23 September 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.17.06zar
https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.17.06zar
Article outline
- Introduction
- The case study
- The ambiguities
- The bombing halt
- The troop announcement
- Greater reliance on South Vietnam
- The gold crisis and the plea for the surtax
- The withdrawal statement
- Conclusions and implications
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