Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Ideological History of American Liberalism
Elite Oral History Discourse
A Study of Cooperation and Coherence
Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, Eva M. McMahan describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers and narrators to interact successfully in the interview context.
The Transfiguring Sword
The Just War of the Women's Social and Political Union
Community over Chaos
An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics
As James A. Mackin, Jr., shows, both modernism and postmodernism have undermined the traditional foundations for ethics. Using an ecological model, however, Community over Chaos develops a common ground for ethical judgments about communication, thus countering the current theoretical climate of pessimistic cynicism toward the very possibility of ethics.
Selling Outer Space
Kennedy, the Media, and Funding for Project Apollo, 1961-1963
Ad Hominem Arguments
A vital contribution to legal theory and media and civic discourse
Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue
Close readings of Burke's public discourse and political writings
Popular Stories and Promised Lands
Fan Cultures and Symbolic Pilgrimages
Reagan and Public Discourse in America
Extensions of the Burkeian System
Kenneth Burke and Contemporary European Thought
Rhetoric in Transition
Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent
The Cultural Prison
Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment
The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments.
President Johnson's War On Poverty
Rhetoric and History
Illustrates the interweaving of rhetorical and historical forces in shaping public policy