Argumentation and Advocacy articles from June 2005

Argumentation and Advocacy archives from June 2005

The eating disordered lifestyle: imagetexts and the performance of similitude.
June 22, 2005... Lauren is 16. Her "thinspirations" are Audrey Hepburn, Fiona Apple, and Jennifer Aniston, and her goal is to make other people jealous of her thin body. Molly's goal weight is 84 pounds; she is losing those last, "stubborn" 16 pounds by eating...

Family communication patterns and competitor satisfaction: a national survey of collegiate forensics participants.
June 22, 2005... In a special issue of The Forensic on the theme "Forensics and Family," guest editor Scott Jensen (2003) noted that, although family relationships are usually our most important relationships, they often are secondary to forensics education and...

Science and technology controversy: a rationale for inquiry.
June 22, 2005... Controversy study is still in its nascent stage, even while there are no shortages of engaged, extended argumentation. Election seasons are rife with episodic disagreements that erupt across news cycles, each a ripple in a larger ideological...

"Let us (not) theorize the spaces of contention".
June 22, 2005... In 1991, Tom Goodnight undertook a search of the literature for theories of controversy, and was surprised to return empty handed. Even collections of controversy studies focused on "local attachments to a dispute" and included no "overall...

Risk, controversy, and rhetoric: response to goodnight.
June 22, 2005... It makes sense to use controversy as a way for argumentation and rhetorical studies to contribute to the study of science and technology, for controversy is central to both. Controversy provides occasions and strategies for rhetoric....

Science controversy, common sense, and the third culture.
June 22, 2005... The breadth of Goodnight's rationale suggests what may be simultaneously the blessing and curse of the field, i.e., that to study argumentation as social processes is, given world enough and time, to study everything. To its credit, this...

Scientific and technical controversy: three frameworks for analysis.
June 22, 2005... I would like to suggest three frameworks for the analysis of scientific controversies. The first is derived from the work of a sociologist, Joseph Gusfield, the second from that of an anthropologist, Victor Turner, and the third from that of a...

Why Deliberative Democracy?(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Why Deliberative Democracy? By Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004; pp. vii + 217. $55.00 cloth; $16.95 paper. In a series of essays and a book, political philosophers Amy Gutmann and Dennis...

The Moral Authority of Nature.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... The Moral Authority of Nature. Edited by Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004; pp. vii + 519. $65.00 cloth; $26.00 paper. Participants in debates over public policy have used Nature as a rhetorical...

Muted Voices: Latinos and the 2000 Elections.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... Muted Voices: Latinos and the 2000 Elections. Edited by Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Louis DeSipio. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005; pp. ix + 276. $29.95 paper. The Latina/o community in the United States is growing rapidly and with...

The Woman's Public Speaking Handbook.(Book review)
June 22, 2005... The Woman's Public Speaking Handbook. By E. J. Natalle and F. R. Bodenheimer. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2004; pp. iii + 169. $23.95 paper. Natalle and Bodenheimer's The Woman's Public Speaking Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of...