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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Ideological History of American Liberalism

University of Alabama Press

Examines the origin, elements, and evolving significance of the “tides” in his discourse of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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Elite Oral History Discourse

A Study of Cooperation and Coherence

University of Alabama Press

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.


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The Transfiguring Sword

The Just War of the Women's Social and Political Union

University of Alabama Press

Provides a new understanding of the recurrent rhetorical need to employ conservative rhetoric in support of a radical cause

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Community over Chaos

An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics

University of Alabama Press

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.

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Selling Outer Space

Kennedy, the Media, and Funding for Project Apollo, 1961-1963

University of Alabama Press

Examines how the Kennedy administration and the media constructed the space program in ways designed to win congressional and public approval

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Ad Hominem Arguments

University of Alabama Press

A vital contribution to legal theory and media and civic discourse

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Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue

University of Alabama Press

Close readings of Burke's public discourse and political writings

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Popular Stories and Promised Lands

Fan Cultures and Symbolic Pilgrimages

University of Alabama Press

A conversation about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we might be going
 

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Reagan and Public Discourse in America

University of Alabama Press

A critical assessment of the impact of the administration of President Ronald Reagan on public discourse in the United States

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Extensions of the Burkeian System

University of Alabama Press

Focuses criticism upon the writings of Kenneth Burke
 

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Kenneth Burke and Contemporary European Thought

Rhetoric in Transition

University of Alabama Press

Insights into the problem of our relation to language

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Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent

University of Alabama Press

Essays strive to parse out the nature of assent

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The Cultural Prison

Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment

University of Alabama Press

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.

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President Johnson's War On Poverty

Rhetoric and History

University of Alabama Press

Illustrates the interweaving of rhetorical and historical forces in shaping public policy

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See It Now Confronts McCarthyism

Television Documentary and the Politics of Representation

University of Alabama Press

Seeks evidence from media artifacts to reveal aesthetic, cultural, ideological, generic, and historical dimensions from classic television broadcasts

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A Voice Of Their Own

The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840-1910

Edited by Martha Solomon
University of Alabama Press

A Voice of Their Own explores the consciousness-raising role of the American Suffrage press of the latter half of the 19th century

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Rhetorical Dimensions Of Popular Culture

University of Alabama Press

Supports the argument that rhetoric needs to be conceptualized as the social function that influences and manages meaning

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A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy

University of Alabama Press

Takes a new analytical look at the concept of fallacy and presents an up-to-date analysis of its usefulness for argumentation studies
 

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Doing Rhetorical History

Concepts and Cases

University of Alabama Press

This collection argues that rhetorical history, both as a methodology
and as a perspective, offers insights that are central to the study of
communication and unavailable through other approaches.

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A Theory of Argumentation

University of Alabama Press

Establishes a theoretical context for, and to elaborate the implications of, the claim that argument is a form of interaction in which two or more people maintain what they construe to be incompatible positions

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"Hear O Israel"

The History of American Jewish Preaching, 1654-1970

University of Alabama Press

The only examination of the history of American Jewish preaching, from the settlement of the first Jews in the United States until 1970

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Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse

University of Alabama Press

Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse analyzes argumentation in ordinary disputes.

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Addressing Postmodernity

Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change

University of Alabama Press

Reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change

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Lift Every Voice

African American Oratory, 1787-1901

University of Alabama Press
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Popular Trials

Rhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law

Edited by Robert Hariman
University of Alabama Press

Contemporary scholarship illustrates the law’s increasingly powerful role in American life; legal education, in turn, has focused on the problems and techniques of communication. This book addresses these interests through critical study of eight popular trials: the 17th-century trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, and the 20th-century trials of Scopes, the Rosenbergs, the Chicago Seven, the Catonsville Nine, John Hinckley, Claus von Bulow, and San Diego Mayor Larry Hedgecock.

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Presidents and Protestors

Political Rhetoric in the 1960s

University of Alabama Press

An excellent and lucid introduction to the study of political rhetoric

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