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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.
Elite Oral History Discourse
A Study of Cooperation and Coherence
By Eva M. McMahan; Foreword by Ronald J. Grele
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.
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
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.
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
Ad Hominem Arguments
University of Alabama Press
A vital contribution to legal theory and media and civic discourse
Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue
University of Alabama Press
Close readings of Burke's public discourse and political writings
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
Reagan and Public Discourse in America
Edited by Michael Weiler and W. Barnett Pearce
University of Alabama Press
A critical assessment of the impact of the administration of President Ronald Reagan on public discourse in the United States
Extensions of the Burkeian System
Edited by James W. Chesebro
University of Alabama Press
Focuses criticism upon the writings of Kenneth Burke