Thomas Faist
Ashgate
Hardback
226
2007
?«Discourse Power Address?» identifies the existence of ?«directive?» address, a form of strategic communication which is employed in a number of dominant practices, including Advertising, Politics, Public Relations and Corporate representation. Stuart Price argues that the simulation of intimacy in authoritarian address masks a drive to power, in which the creation of propositions by powerful social actors is based on the ?«timeliness?» of utterance rather than any real adherence to truth or genuine explanation.