By Sandrine Sorlin
This booklet is to this point the 1st monograph-length research of the preferred American political television sequence House of Cards. It proposes an encompassing research of the 1st 3 seasons from the bizarre angles of discourse and discussion. The learn of the stylistic idiosyncrasies of the ruthless major protagonist, Frank Underwood, is done by way of a realistic and cognitive process exposing the most characters’ manipulative recommendations to win over the opposite. taking into consideration the socio-cultural context and the specificities of the television medium, the quantity specializes in the workings of interplay in addition to the effect of the direct handle to the viewer. The ebook significantly makes use of the most recent theories in pragmatics and stylistics in its try out at delivering a pragma-rhetorical concept of manipulation.
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Cautious and implicit discourse, off-record criticism and covert manipulation, most often give way to on-record impoliteness and overt orders under the form of direct imperatives. From Whip to President, Frank Underwood emphasizes his power and authority and lets it be known that the hierarchical relations they establish require deferential address and submission. This is why this book lays particular emphasis on the first two seasons as it is interested in the use of covert linguistic manipulation during the protagonist’s ascension to power.
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As Huddleston and Pullum (2002: 183–4) point out, have, have got, or need tend to report an ‘objective’ obligation ‘imposed by someone else’ rather than one ‘I impose on myself, or voluntarily accept’. ‘Have to’ seems to highlight the Underwoods’ total surrender, heart and soul, to an exterior Object of desire, presenting the obligation as if it were not ‘voluntarily’ accepted by the Subject. Claire Underwood has developed around herself a suit of armour that keeps her from feeling hurtful emotions.