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Religious Rhetoric of U.s. Presidential Candidates - A Corpus Linguistics Approach to the Rhetorical God Gap

English · Hardback

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List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Methodology and Limitations
2 Religious Rhetoric in the Early Cold War
3 The GOP’s Rhetoric of Culture Wars and Anti-Liberalism
4 The Religious Rhetoric of the Democratic Party: Religious Denominations, Communities of Brothers and Sisters and Biblically Inspired Language
5 Conclusion
Index

About the author

Arnaud Vincent is an invited professor of linguistics at the Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles and scientific collaborator at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He holds a master’s degree in American studies from Antwerp University and a PhD in linguistics from the Université Catholique de Louvain.

Summary

Drawing on corpus linguistic methods, this book critically examines the "rhetorical God gap" in American political discourse between the Democratic and Republican parties and showcases the value of such methods in interrogating claims around political language in linguistic research.

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