4. Spin and Counterspin

  1. . https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/703257866820415488.

  2. . www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/morris2.html.

  3. . Tony Blair, April 8, 1998, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3750847.stm.

  4. . Anthony Seldon, Blair Unbound (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), p. 339.

  5. . Arturo Tosi, Language and Society in a Changing Italy (Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2000), p. 117.

  6. . Ibid., p. 110.

  7. . Ibid., p. 116.

  8. . Ibid., pp. 119, 120.

  9. . “Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi in His Own Words,” BBC News, August 2013, www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-15642201.

  10. . www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/28/silvio-berlusconi-sues-sex-scandal.

  11. . www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/01/05/97001-20110105FILWWW00493-chatel-defend-le-style-oral-de-sarkozy.php.

  12. . Vladimir Putin speaking at a press conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, September 24, 1999.

  13. . Rémi Camus, “Language and Social Change: New Tendencies in the Russian Language,” Kultura, October 2006, www.kultura-rus.uni-bremen.de/kultura_dokumente/ausgaben/englisch/kultura_10_2006_EN.pdf.