# From surface to depth and back in discourse: A case of semantic prosody

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The piece explains how semantic prosody constrained interpretations of Barack Obama's statement that soldiers' lives had been wasted.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 February 2007

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 13 February 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: semantic-prosody, political-discourse, conceptual-blending, war.

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