The Imperial Style: Rhetorical Depiction and Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

Contributes to scholarship advancing the understanding of human communication by examining a powerful set of imperialist symbols that have a lingering impact on the British national psyche. Investigates the Queen's Diamond Jubilee speech and the performative rhetoric of the Jubilee celebration itself, to illustrate how rhetorical depiction may play a role in deeply ingraining symbols still capable of driving action. (SR)