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Casey, Michael John. "Ronald Reagan's Epideictic Rhetoric Within the Context of The State of the Union Addresses During the Cold War, 1945-1985," Washington State University, August 1986.
The thesis of this dissertation is that Ronald Reagan’s rhetoric is of the epideictic genre, with all that implies. The theoretical approach is primarily based on Chaim Perelman’s analysis of that genre. The methodological approach is a close reading of the texts of Reagan’s State of the Union addresses, Inaugural addresses, and other selected epideictic speeches; they are compared and contrasted to the State of the Union addresses of the other Cold War presidents.
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