“Energy Independence”: President Obama’s Rhetoric of a Success Story

Authors

  • Stéphanie Bonnefille University of Bordeaux

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/v10015-012-0013-9

Keywords:

cognitive linguistics, rhetoric, climate change, clean energy, President Obama

Abstract

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Aristote (1991). Rhétorique. Paris: Le Livre de poche.
Google Scholar

Aristote (1997). Poétique. Paris: Mille et une nuits.
Google Scholar

Bonnefille, Stéphanie (2008). “When green rhetoric and cognitive linguistics meet: President G.W. Bush’s environmental discourse in his State of the Union Addresses (2001–2008)”. Metaphorik.de. http://www.metaphorik.de/index.htm
Google Scholar

Bonnefille, Stéphanie (2009). “Conceptualisation de la question environnemtale au XEtats–Unis: les mots verts des candidats Obama et McCain”. Bulletin de la Société Anglaise 31 (30–48). Paris: Paris X.
Google Scholar

Bonnefille, Stéphanie (2012). “Obama’s and Sarkozy’s remarks at the U.N.’s Climate Change Summit: a contest between figurative and literal language?”. In B. Lewandowska–Tomaszczyk (Ed.), Texts and Minds. Papers in Cognitive Poetics and Rhetoric (225–242). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Google Scholar

Bonnefille, Stéphanie (2013). “A cognitive linguistics approach to the rhetoric of damage control: BP’s oil spill and the EPA’s strategy of communication”. Entrepalavras, vol. 3, n° 1 (3), Fortaleza.
Google Scholar

Burke, Kenneth (1969). A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Google Scholar

Caillois, Roger (1958). Art poétique. Paris: Gallimard.
Google Scholar

Chevalier, Jean–Marie (2004). Les Grandes batailles de l’énergie. Paris: Editions Gallimard.
Google Scholar

Cox, Robert (2013). Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere. Los Angeles, London: Sage.
Google Scholar

Fillmore, Charles (1976). “Frame semantics and the nature of language”. In S. R. Harnad, H. D. Steklis & J. Lancaster (Eds.), Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech (1–24). New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
Google Scholar

Fillmore, Charles J. (1985). “Frames and the semantics of understanding”. Quaderni di Semantica, vol. 6: 2, 222–254.
Google Scholar

Gardes–Tamine, Joëlle (1996). La Rhétorique. Paris: Armand Colin.
Google Scholar

Gentner, Dedre & D. R. Gentner (1983). “Structure–mapping: a theoretical framework for analogy”. Cognitive Science. A Multidisciplinary Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Psychology and Language, vol. 7, 155–170.
Google Scholar

Gibbs, Ray (1994). The Poetics of Mind. Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Google Scholar

Gronbeck, Bruce E. (2008). “Rhetoric and Politics”. In L. Lee Kaid (Ed.), Political Communication Research (135–154). New York and London: Routledge. http://www.entrepalavras.ufc.br/revista/index.php/Revista/article/view/183
Google Scholar

Lakoff, George & M. Johnson (1980). Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Google Scholar

Lakoff, George (2004). Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know your Values and Frame the Debate. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing.
Google Scholar

Meyer, Michel (2004). La Rhétorique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
Google Scholar

Molinié, Georges (1992). Dictionnaire de rhétorique. Paris: Le Livre de poche.
Google Scholar

Murray, David, Joel Schwartz & S. Robert Lichter (2002). It Ain’t Necessarily So. How the Media Remake our Picture of Reality. New York: Penguin.
Google Scholar

Poletta, Francesca (2006). It Was Like a Fever. Storytelling in Protest and Politics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Google Scholar

Salmon, Christian (2008). Storytelling, la machine à fabriquer des histoires et à formatter les esprits. Paris: La Découverte/Poche.
Google Scholar

Schiffrin, Deborah (1994). Approaches to Discourse. Oxford U.K. and Cambridge U.S.A.: Blackwell.
Google Scholar

Schwarze, Steven (2006). “Environmental Melodrama”. Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 92, N°3, 239–61.
Google Scholar

Sperber, Dan (2007 –original 1975). “Rudiments of cognitive rhetoric”. Rhetoric Society Quaterly, vol. 37, Issue 4, 361–400.
Google Scholar

Sweetser, Eve (1990). From Etymology to Pragmatics. Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Google Scholar

Talmy, Leonard (2000). “A cognitive framework for narrative structure”. In L. Talmy, Toward a Cognitive Semantics, Vol. II (417–82). Cambridge, Massachussetts, London: The M.I.T. Press.
Google Scholar

Turner, Mark (1996). The Literary Mind. The Origins of Thought and Language. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Google Scholar

Vosniadou, Stella & A. Ortony (1989). “Similarity and analogical reasoning: a synthesis”. In S. Vosniadou & A. Ortony (Eds.), Similarity and Analogical Reasoning (1–17). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Google Scholar

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Published

2013-06-30

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Bonnefille, S. (2013). “Energy Independence”: President Obama’s Rhetoric of a Success Story. Research in Language, 11(2), 189–212. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10015-012-0013-9

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