Rhetorical patterns in the Australian debate over war with Iraq

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Rhetorical patterns in the Australian debate over war with Iraq

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Author(s): Brian Dollery , Lin Crase

Publication date (Print): September 2003

Journal: Prometheus

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Keywords: Hirschman's Taxonomy, Iraq War, Rhetorical Discourse

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Considerable public debate surrounded the Bush Administration's policy to invade Iraq if it did not dismantle its purported stockpile of 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' and the wisdom of Australian participation in such an attack. This paper invokes Albert Hirschman's well-known 'rhetoric of reaction' taxonomy to examine the patterns of persuasive discourse embodied in the Australian debate over the desirability of Australian involvement in a war with Iraq. We seek to establish whether the Hirschmanian typology does indeed adequately describe rhetorical patterns in the Australian debate and we attempt to identify shortcomings in the analytical system proposed by Hirschman.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): cpro20

Journal ID (archive): CPRO

Title: Prometheus

Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 0810-9028

ISSN (Electronic): 1470-1030

Publication date (Print): September 2003

Volume: 21

Issue: 3

Pages: 355-363

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Publisher ID: 10032500 Coden ID: Prometheus, Vol. 21, No. 3, September 2003, pp. 355-363

DOI: 10.1080/0810902032000113497

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[1] James Clive. . 2002. . 'Democracy is no reason for terror'. . Age . , 21 October;

[2] Greer Germaine. . 2002. . "The awful day Australia stopped .being everyone's best mate'. . Age . , 22 October;

[3] Abdel-Fattah Randa. . 2002. . 'Collusion abroad and division at home'. . Age . , 15 October;

[4] Hewett Jennifer. . 2002. . 'We can't hide from the world'. . Sydney Morning Herald . , 24 October;

[5] Bennett James. . 2002. . 'Joint effort can douse fires of Jihad'. . Australian . , 21 October;

[6] Steyn Mark. . 2002. . "The anti-Yanks are all talk, no action'. . National Post . , 16 October;

[7] Silvers R. and Epstein B.. , eds. 2002. . Striking Terror America's New War . , New York : : New York Review of Books. .

[8] Hirschman Albert. . 1991. . The Rhetoric of Reaction . , Cambridge : : Harvard University Press. .

[9] Burton Therese, Dollery Brian and Wallis Joe. . 2002a. . 'Rhetorical patterns at the 1999 New South Wales Drug Summit'. . Current Issues in Criminal justice . , Vol. 12((2)): 207––15. .

[10] Burton Therese, Dollery Brian and Wallis Joe. . 2002b. . A note on "economic rationalism" in Australia: an application of Athen Hirschman's rhetoric of reaction'. . History of Economics Ration . , Vol. 36:: 1––9. .

[11] McCloskey Donald. . 1983. . 'Rhetoric of economies'. . Journal of Economic Literature . , Vol. 21((2)): 481––517. .

[12] McCloskey Donald. . 1994. . Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics . , p. xiv Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press. .

[13] Maki U.. 1995. . 'Diagnosing McCloskey'. . Journal of Economic literature . , Vol. 33((3)): 1303

[14] Hayek F. A.. 1944. . The Road to Serfdom . , Chicago : : University of Chicago Press. .

[15] Hood Christopher. . 1998. . The Art of the State . , Oxford : : Clarendon Press. .

[16] Chapple A.. 2002. . "Think again oil war, Mr Howard'. . Western Australian . , 10 October;

[17] Malan A.. 2002. . 'Bush presses spin button'. . West Australian . , 10 October;

[18] Manne Robert. . 2002. . 'Reason defies the desire to bomb Iraq'. . Sydney Morning Herald . , 10 October;

[19] Davidson Kenneth. . 2002. . 'Terrorisai the cost of Iraq war'. . Age . , 15 October;

[20] Butler Richard. . 2002. . 'Perils of 4ne-superpower world'. . Age . , 22 October;

[21] Gassin R.. 2002. . ' "Give peace no chance" is the US cheer squad's refrain'. . Age . , 21 October;

[22] Editorial Courier-Matt. . 2002. . 'Campaign against terror a just fight'. . Courier-Mail . , 16 October;

[23] Henderson Gerard. . 2002. . 'Alliance with US on Iraq'. . Sydney Morning Herald . , 14 October;

[24] Henderson Gerard. . 2002. . 'The tragedy of BaIi and war with Iraq'. . Sydney Morning Herald . , 26 October;

[25] Rundle Guy. . 2002. . "Time to pause with the angels, not rush with the fools'. . Sydney Morning Herald . , 21 October;

[26] Manne Robert. . 2002. . 'A new evil imperils the world'. . Sydney Morning Herald . , 20 October;

[27] Adams Philip. . 2002. . 'Empire's always right'. . Weekend Australian . , 12 October;

[28] Shanahan Angela. . 2002. . 'Church views leaves us open to attack'. . Australian . , 15 October;

[29] Camey S.. 2002. . The fight we cannot avoid'. . Age . , 19 October;

[30] Shawcross William. . 2002. . "The hard way is the only way'. . Age . , 18 October;

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