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The Blood of Patriots: Symbolic Violence and 'The West'

Authors :
CV Vitolo-Haddad
Source :
Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 49:280-296
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2019.

Abstract

This article considers how demagoguery gives meaning to violence by providing a symbolic, expressive outlet for resentment resulting from real or felt precarity. This rhetorical process redirects f...

Subjects

Subjects :
Libertarianism
Linguistics and Language
Resentment
Communication
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050301 education
050801 communication & media studies
0508 media and communications
Precarity
Aesthetics
Rhetorical question
Scapegoating
Meaning (existential)
Sociology
0503 education
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Details

ISSN :
1930322X and 02773945
Volume :
49
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........5d123ec404e55f565dbd62f486116ed1
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2019.1610641
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