TY - JOUR
T1 - A sad in Search of Legitimacy: Messages and Rhetoric in the Syrian Press, 1970-2000
T2 - [book review]
AU - Horesh, Yair
PY - 2006/4
Y1 - 2006/4
N2 - Middle Eastern historians and media researches alike have long stressed the centrality of the press in promoting acceptance of the legitimacy of dictatorial and totalitarian regimes. Ofra Bengio's Saddam s Word: Political Discourse in Iraq (Oxford University Press, 1998), for example, deftly demonstrated that Saddam's regime has lasted so long because it has mastered verbal manipulation as well as physical power. Starting from the premise that the one of the effective ways to understand the nature of the Syrian regime and his search for legitimacy is through an analysis of language and media discourse, the author states that the aim of the study is "to probe the contents of the messages disseminated by the official Syrian information... [from the review]
AB - Middle Eastern historians and media researches alike have long stressed the centrality of the press in promoting acceptance of the legitimacy of dictatorial and totalitarian regimes. Ofra Bengio's Saddam s Word: Political Discourse in Iraq (Oxford University Press, 1998), for example, deftly demonstrated that Saddam's regime has lasted so long because it has mastered verbal manipulation as well as physical power. Starting from the premise that the one of the effective ways to understand the nature of the Syrian regime and his search for legitimacy is through an analysis of language and media discourse, the author states that the aim of the study is "to probe the contents of the messages disseminated by the official Syrian information... [from the review]
M3 - Book/Arts/Article review
SN - 1060-4367
VL - 15
JO - Domes : digest of Middle East studies
JF - Domes : digest of Middle East studies
IS - 1
ER -