Rhetorical democracy : discursive practices of civic engagement : selected papers from the 2002 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America / edited by Gerard A. Hauser, Amy Grim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhetoric Society of America. Conference (10th : 2002 : Las Vegas, Nev.)

Contributor:

Hauser, Gerard A.

Grim, Amy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

xii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.

Summary:

This volume represents current theory and research in rhetoric, across disciplines, and is of interest to scholars and students in rhetoric studies in speech communication, English, and related disciplines.

Contents:

1 Rhetorical Democracy and Civic Engagement / Gerard A. Hauser 1

2 Citizen Voices in Cyberpolitical Culture / Bruce E. Gronbeck 17

3 Identification and Resistance: Women's Civic Discourse Across the Color Line / Shirley Wilson Logan 33

4 Plato's Shibboleth Delineations; or, the Complete Idiot's Guide to Rhetoric / Rosa A. Eberly 45

5 The Temple Issues Forum: Innovations in Pedagogy for Civic Engagement / Herbert W. Simons 53

II President's Panel: The Rhetoric of 9/11 and Its Aftermath

Introduction to the President's Panel / Gerard A. Hauser 71

6 Terrorist Rhetorics, Rhetorics of Democracies, and Worlds of Meaning / Francis A. Beer 73

7 The Triumph of Consolatory Ritual Over Deliberation Since 9/11 / Dana L. Cloud 75

8 Citizen Rhetorics After 9/11: Back to Bidness as Usual / Rosa A. Eberly 81

9 The Rehabilitation of Propaganda: Post-9/11 Media Coverage in the United States / Mark Andrejevic 85

10 Remarks for 9/11 Panel / James Arnt Aune 91

11 Public Culture and Public Stupidity Post-9/11 / Robert Hariman 95

12 Love and Theft After 9/11: Magnification in the Rhetorical Aftermath / Thomas Farrell 99

13 Populist Poetry or Rantum-Scantum? The Civil Disobedients of Poetry Slams / Jerry Blitefield 107

14 Alternative Articulations of Citizenship: The Written Discourse of a Nineteenth-Century African American Woman / Jami Carlacio 115

15 The Rhetorical Display of "Publicness" in Global Institutions / J. Robert Cox 123

16 Civil Disobedience and the Ethical Appeal of Self-Representation / Ann Dobyns 131

17 The Coalition Rhetoric of Rose Schneiderman / Timothy Doherty 137

18 Identity Across Blood Meridians / Jay Ellis 145

19 Defending the Public: Procedural Rationality and the Limits of Actually Existing Jurisprudence / Daniel L. Emery 151

20 Between Sympathy and Self-Interest: A Reframing of Adam Smith's Economic Rhetoric / David Charles Gore 159

21 The Concept of Global Citizenship in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire: A Challenge to Three Ideas of Rhetorical Mediation / Ronald Walter Greene 165

22 Rhetoric of Globalization: A Social Movement Defines Its Collective Identity in America / Shawn Hellman 173

23 Strategies of Objection in the Trial of the Chicago Eight / David B. Hingstman 179

24 Figuration of Moral Reform in the Rhetoric of Theodore Dwight Weld / Robert S. Iltis 187

25 The Alphabet as Ethics: A Rhetorical Basis for Moral Reality in Hebrew Letters / Steven B. Katz 195

26 Dewey, Discussion, and Democracy in Speech Pedagogy / William Keith 205

27 Homepages, Blogs, and the Chronotopic Dimensions of Personal Civic (Dis-)Engagement / John B. Killoran 213

28 Civic Education and Republican Judgment: The Stem Cell Research Discourse of George W. Bush / Stephen A. Klien 221

29 Panoramic Memories: Realism, Agency, and the Remembrance of Japanese American Internment / Brian Lain 229

30 Rhetorics of Subversion and Silence: The Naming of Illinois State University's Student Union / Jeff Ludwig 237

31 Tyrannical Technology and Thin Democracy / Ken S. McAllister 243

32 How Medium Clarifies Message in Emerson's "Divinity School Address" / Michael Moghtader 249

33 Desire and Performance at the Classroom Door: Discursive Laminations of Academic and Civic Engagement / Rolf Norgaard 255

34 Sisyphus at Starbucks: Complicity Through Resistance in the Satire of Liberties / Omedi Ochieng 261

35 Learning to Be Civil: Citizen Judith and Old English Culture / Dana M. Oswald 269

36 Memory, Narrative, and Myth in the Construction of National Identity: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Senate Debate Over Reparations for Japanese Americans / Maegan Parker 277

37 Oral Mind in Civic Engagement: Common Sense and Rhetorical Action / Anne Pym 285

38 Fanaticism, Civil Society, and the Arts of Representation in Sixteenth-Century Mexico / Susan Romano 293

39 Service-Learning and Cultural Studies: Toward a Hybrid Pedagogy of Rhetorical Intervention / J. Blake Scott 301.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805842640

0805842659

OCLC:

51810637