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Rhetoric and power: rethinking and relinking.
September 22, 2003... As a field of study, rhetoric has seen its position within the broader range of scholarship vary greatly in its lengthy history. Saddled with Plato's legacy, rhetoric has been historically conceived as a "hand maiden" to the truth, a discursive...
Keeping company in controversy: education reform, spheres of argument, and ethical criticism.
September 22, 2003...
There is no shortage of debate over how to repair our educational
infrastructure. National standards or more local control? Vouchers
or better public schools? More parental involvement or more teacher
autonomy? A greater federal...
You have great gestures: an analysis of ballot commentary to pedagogical, outcomes.
September 22, 2003...
The most important thing for a judge is-curiously
enough-judgment.
--Lord Patrick Devlin, Judge of the High Court
(Simpson, 1988)
Competitive contests require a judge to declare a winner. This verdict is obtained through...
Kenneth Burke's continued relevance: arguments toward a better life.
September 22, 2003... In the wake of Kenneth Burke's death in 1993, a branch of rhetorical scholarship shifted its focus, away from the Burkean system to consideration of Burke himself. In Burkean parlance, we might describe this as a move away from Burke's...
Ethical Argumentation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Ethical Argumentation. By Douglas Walton. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003; pp. xviii +311. $85.00.
In Ethical Argumentation, Douglas Walton claims to have "laid down the foundations for a new research program" by advancing a model of...
American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era. By Deidre M. Moloney. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002; pp. xii + 267. $49.95; $19.95 paper.
Moloney has written a lucid and helpful...
Strategies of Remembrance: The Rhetorical Dimensions of National Identity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Strategies of Remembrance: The Rhetorical Dimensions of National Identity. By M. Lane Bruner. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Press, 2002; pp. xv + 143. $29.95.
In this book, author M. Lane Bruner offers case studies of pivotal speeches made...
General Eisenhower: Ideology and Discourse.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... General Eisenhower: Ideology and Discourse. By Ira Chernus. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series, Martin J. Medhurst, ed., 2002; pp. vii + 366. $51.95.
Ira Chernus' volume on Dwight D....
Law, Rhetoric, and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Law, Rhetoric, and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture. By Michael Dorland and Maurice Charland. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002; pp. xiv +359. $65.00; $35.00 paper.
In his contribution to The Rhetoric of the Human...
Argumentation in Psychology.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Argumentation in Psychology. Edited by James F. Voss and Julie Van Dyke. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002; 155 pp. $35.00.
In this reprint of a special issue of Discourse Processes, editors James Voss and Julie Van...