Book Review of Strictly Speaking

Theory in Action, 2013

Journal of Language and Politics , 2018

Language in Society, 1998

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2008

Research on Language & Social Interaction, 1999

... Mehl, D. (1996). La television de l'Intimite [Intimate television]. Paris: Editions du Seuil. Peck, J. (1995). TV talk shows as therapeutic discourse: The ideological labor of the televisedtalking cure. Communication Theory, 5, 58–81. Priest, P. (1995). ...

In autumn 1944 Franklin Roosevelt's presidential campaign was losing momentum. Then, in Congressional debate, U. S. Representative Harold Knutson of Minnesota accused Roosevelt of extravagance, claiming he sent a Navy destroyer to the Aleutian Islands to retrieve his Scottish terrier. FDR parried these charges with "the Fala speech," a mocking and acerbic attack on Republicans ("No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala") that reenergized his campaign. "The Fala speech" also indirectly rescued Richard Nixon. Under attack in the 1952 campaign, Nixon saved his vice presidential aspirations and political career with the "Checkers" address. However, the origin of "Checkers" in FDR's "Fala Speech" has been ignored. These rhetorical rescues offer insight into banality and pathos in political rhetoric.

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2005

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Film-Philosophy, 2006