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In:Words of Crisis as Words of Power: The jeremiad in American presidential speeches
Marta Neüff
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 77] 2018
► pp. 399–401

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Published online: 24 May 2018
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A

  • Afghanistan 112, 117–119, 122, 124–126, 151–154
  • al-Qaeda 107–109, 112, 117–118, 151
  • American
    • Dream 73, 293, 307, 310, 312
    • Jeremiad 1–4, 38–42, 47–51, 174, 331–332 ; see also biblical jeremiad see also ecological jeremiad see also environmental jeremiad see also inbound jeremiad see also outbound jeremiad
  • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) 264, 309–312, 318–312, 323–324
  • Anderson, Benedict 94, 134, 165
  • anxiety 129, 170–171, 258 ; see also fear
  • apocalypse/apocalyptic 170–171, 177–179, 254, 259–261 ; see also ecological apocalypse see also environmental apocalypse see also modern apocalypse
  • Aristotle 18, 26–27, 31, 129
  • axis of evil 149–151

B

  • bailout 283, 287–290, 293, 295–298
  • barbarian 111–113, 128
  • battle 69, 97, 144–146, 164–165, 241–242
  • Beasley, Vanessa 6, 29
  • Bellah, Robert 44–46, 88–89
  • Bercovitch, Sacvan 2, 38–43, 47–50, 167–168, 331–334
  • Bible/biblical 36, 42, 80, 86, 90–91, 152, 161, 169
    • biblical jeremiad 40, 178
  • bin Laden, Osama 108–109, 116–117, 122, 127
  • Bostdorff, Denise 24–26, 109, 250, 265
  • BP 183, 217–218, 221–222, 224–226, 231–240, 246–250, 257–260
  • bullhorn moment 99, 101
  • Burke, Kenneth 98, 162–164
  • Bush doctrine 81–82, 154

C

  • Cap, Piotr 11–13, 62–63, 65–66, 115–116, 183–186
  • charisma 18, 29, 320
  • Chilton, Paul 6–7, 11, 127
  • chosenness 43, 48–49, 165, 168, 266, 333
  • Christian 79–80, 85, 91–93, 119–122, 144–148, 212–213
    • martyrology 136
  • church 39–40, 80, 88–89, 92
  • city upon a hill 38, 43, 85, 96, 123, 294, 308
  • civil religion 42, 44–47, 88, 174, 223, 332 ; see also priestly civil religion see also prophetic civil religion
  • clash of civilizations 110–112, 121
  • climate change 13, 183, 245, 271, 317
  • Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI) 55
  • conceptual metaphor 32–35, 61–62, 97, 142, 182–183, 270–271, 283, 294–295, 300, 308–311, 316
  • Covenant
    • Renewal 39–40, 50, 110, 261, 333–334
    • with God 46, 159, 172, 178, 330
  • crisis
    • as opportunity 23
    • as threat 23
    • communication 143, 337
  • critical discourse analysis (CDA) 5, 8
  • crusade 118, 120–122

D

  • decline 1–2, 47–48, 170, 277, 332
  • Deepwater Horizon 217–218, 224, 228, 230, 232, 242
  • dehumanization/dehumanize 69–70, 112, 128 ; see also depersonification
  • deictic
    • center 11–12, 45, 63, 84, 156–157, 272–273
    • space 3, 5
  • deliberative
    • discourse 293
    • function 254, 295, 309, 322–324
    • purpose 260, 307, 323, 331
    • rhetoric 26–27, 173, 322, 322–323
  • demon 35, 147–149
    • demonization 148–149, 161
  • depersonification 35
  • dichotomy 7–11, 13, 36, 66, 80, 86, 114, 144, 289 ; see also false dichotomy
  • Dictionary of Affect in Language (D.A.L.) 7–10, 60, 180–181, 268–269, 335
  • disaster as a test 214 ; see also ecological disaster see also environmental disaster see also natural disaster
  • divine 41, 46–47, 91–93, 152–153, 166–167, 170, 211–212
    • justice 119
    • justification 47, 91, 106
    • punishment 41
    • test 204
  • Dow, Bonnie 27, 86, 174, 223
  • Dunmire, Patricia 11, 13, 66, 142, 156

E

  • Edwards, Jonathan 9, 40, 119
  • elections 25, 239, 245, 297, 313, 324
  • emotion 129, 146, 232
    • emotional appeal 9, 48, 55, 154
    • emotional valance 9, 82, 208
  • Enduring Freedom 119, 125
  • ecological
    • apocalypse 254
    • disaster 177–179
    • jeremiad 254
  • enemy 107–109, 111–115, 147–148, 161–162, 164–166
  • environmental
    • apocalypse 177
    • disaster 175–177
    • jeremiad 178
  • errand 39–41, 166, 185, 194, 333–334
  • evil 78–81, 84–87, 107–109, 119–121, 128–130, 144–151, 164–165 see also axis of evil
    • evilification 80
  • exceptionalism 42–43, 98, 105–106, 123–124, 133, 165–168, 333–334

F

  • false dichotomy 58, 127, 164
  • fear 47–49, 55–58, 66, 84, 112, 143–144, 250 ; see also anxiety
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 175, 186, 188, 191, 195, 198, 211
  • financial crisis 261–263, 265, 275, 285–286, 292, 296, 298, 387
  • Foucault, Michael 5–6, 35–36, 142
  • framing 3–4, 10, 21, 23–24, 33–34, 62, 230–231, 267–268, 271, 322–323, 328–329 ; see also media framing see also metaphorical framing see also threat frame
  • freedom 70–71, 74, 91–93, 97–99, 105–108, 136–139, 152–154

G

  • genre 25–27, 38–39, 41, 173, 179, 333–334
  • good vs. evil 10, 13, 80, 85, 175
  • Great Awakening 40, 119, 178
  • group identification 6, 133 ; see also in-group/out-group
  • ground zero 99–100
  • Gulf of Mexico 182–183, 217, 224, 226, 240, 247

H

  • hero 97, 105, 144, 161–162
  • hope 46–49, 84–86, 89–90, 129–132, 165, 192, 201–202, 205–208
  • Hurricane Katrina 186–187, 195, 198, 208
  • Hussein, Saddam 34, 116, 151, 159–162

I

  • identity 114, 133–136, 164, 248–249
  • imagined community 46, 94, 174
  • inbound jeremiad 139, 142, 154, 173 ; see also outbound jeremiad
  • in-group/out-group 35, 164
  • intertextuality 6, 29, 336–337
  • Iraq 54–56, 150–151, 155–170, 203–204

J

  • Jendrysik, Stephan 1, 3, 41, 49–51, 177
  • Jeremiah 36–38, 90, 120, 152, 168–169, 177
  • Jihad 109
  • Johnson, Mark 5, 10, 32–33, 36

K

  • Kennedy, John F. 126, 139, 163, 166, 263, 317–318
  • Kiewe, Amos 5, 22, 25–26, 176, 248
  • King, Martin Luther Jr. 49, 85

L

  • Lakoff, George 5, 10, 32–36, 70–73, 98–99, 147, 307
  • legitimization discourse/strategies 7, 13, 66, 273
  • Lehmann Brothers 14, 285
  • lexical correspondences 10–11, 182, 270–271, 375
  • liberation 123, 151–154
  • Lincoln, Abraham 136–138

M

  • Manichean
    • style 144
    • divide 144–145
  • Manifest Destiny 43, 183, 213–214, 252
  • Mather, Cotton 149
  • Mather, Increase 9, 39
  • Medhurst, Martin 18, 20, 283
  • media 27–29, 54–56, 116, 187–189, 263–265
    • media framing 27, 29, 187
    see also news
  • metaphor 10, 30–36, 61–62, 97, 182–183, 270–271, 283, 293–294, 300, 311 see also conceptual metaphor
    • metaphorical framing 33, 281–282
  • Miller, Perry 38–41, 50, 331
  • mission/missionary 39–43, 47–49, 105–106, 118–120, 131–132, 158–159, 166–167, 235–236, 251–252, 308 ; see also errand see also exceptionalism
  • Model of Christian Charity 1, 9, 38, 43, 96, 266
  • modern presidency 1, 19–20
  • moral absolutism 145
  • Murphy, Andrew 41–43, 49–50, 85–86, 101, 334
  • Muslim 80–81, 104, 110–111, 120–121, 123, 149
  • myth 29–30, 42–46, 66, 105, 133, 159–160, 166–167, 211, 235–236, 293–294
    • mythical battle 11, 62, 144, 162

N

  • National Day of Prayer 88–89
  • national unity 93, 95
  • natural disaster 194, 198, 252
  • Neustadt, Richard 1, 17
  • New Orleans 199–202, 205–206
  • news 28, 55–56, 72–73, 187–189, 226

O

  • oil spill 182–183, 217–218, 224–226, 233–239, 245–247
  • Other/Othering 35–36, 62, 66, 78–79, 107–108, 112–114, 128–129, 147–149, 164, 248
  • outbound jeremiad 137–138, 142, 154, 168–169, 261 ; see also inbound jeremiad

P

  • partisan divide 102, 140
  • PATRIOT Act 140, 149
  • patriotic duty 86, 139, 172, 233
  • peace 85, 95, 126–127, 130
  • Perelman, Chaïm 27, 86
  • persuasion 17–18, 25, 55, 58, 331
  • pleasantness 8–10, 60, 69, 180–181, 268–269
  • preemption 66, 156
    • preemptive 66, 141–142, 156, 168
  • priestly
    • civil religion 46–47
    • rhetoric 89
  • propaganda 54–58, 114, 174
    • model 58
  • prophet 38, 120, 168 see also Jeremiah
    • prophetic religion 46–47 ; see also priestly civil religion
    • prophetic dualism 165
    • prophetic rhetoric 89 ; see also priestly rhetoric
  • protestant ethic 265
  • proximization 7, 11–14, 62–66, 112, 141–142, 156, 183–186, 273–274
  • Puritan 1–4, 6, 38–44, 48–51, 135–136, 138–140, 174–175, 265–267, 333–337
  • Push for Stimulus 267, 269, 307

R

  • racism 199, 201, 215
  • Reagan, Ronald 76, 85–86, 129, 148, 156, 303
  • recession 262–264, 277, 296, 298, 300, 308–310, 322–323
  • religion 90, 92–93, 128 ; see also civil religion
  • renewal 135–136, 250 ; see also Covenant Renewal
  • Responsibility to Protect (R2P) 122, 160
  • rhetorical
    • leadership 18, 20–21, 24
    • presidency 20–21
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D. 21, 77–79, 94–95, 106–107, 141, 213, 279, 291–293, 296, 300, 321

S

  • Said, Edward 35, 79, 111
  • September 11 (9/11) 53, 59–60, 62, 67, 81
  • Sontag, Susan 116
  • Stuckey, Mary 6, 21–22, 29
  • Superdome 190–191

T

  • Taliban 104, 117–119
  • ‘t Hart, Paul 22–23, 29
  • terministic screen 98, 126
  • terrorism 56, 76–77
    • terrorist attacks 53, 56, 62, 76–68, 70, 99, 129, 132–133, 157
    • terrorists 56, 74, 81, 83–86, 90, 95, 97, 99, 103–115, 121–128, 146–150
  • test 71–72, 138 ; see also trial
  • threat frame 23, 185
  • Tindall, Karen 22–23, 29
  • trial 62, 85, 185, 211–212, 271, 293–294
  • Tulis, Jeffrey 5, 19–20

U

  • unity 70, 93–95, 221–222, 318 ; see also national unity see also imagined community

V

  • victimage/victimhood 162–163
  • villain 97, 101, 144, 162, 185, 247, 260, 293, 313, 394–397 ; see also enemy

W

  • Wall Street 288, 292–293, 304, 323
  • war on terror 10, 60–62, 82–83, 109, 111–115, 120–121, 124–125
  • weapons of mass destruction(WMD) 150–151, 156–157
  • Weber, Max 265–266
  • Whissell, Cynthia 8–9
  • Windt, Theodor 25–27, 165, 304, 330
  • Winthrop, John 1, 38, 43, 96, 266
  • Wodak, Ruth 5, 35, 115
  • word cloud
  • World Trade Center (WTC) 59, 73, 76 ; see also ground zero

Z

  • Zarefsky, David 19, 116
  • Žižek, Slavoj 159
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