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Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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Norms of Presentational Force
(American Forensics Association, 2005)Can style or presentational devices reasonably compel us to believe, agree, act? I submit that they can, and that the normative pragmatic project explains how. After describing a normative pragmatic approach to presentational ... -
Accommodation and institutional talk: communicative dimensions of police-civilian interactions
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Doing Ethos-Work: Exploring Group Ethos Among Indie Musicians
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-26)Utilizing the perspectives of Goffman, Aristotle and Burke this study investigated the concepts of ethos and group ethos in three case studies of indie music artists as discursive performances of character in action through ... -
Messages from the Battlefield: Relationships of Communication Between Deployed Citizen-Soldiers and Colleagues on Organizational Commitment
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-27)Organizational commitment, or the extent to which employees are psychologically attached to or involved in their organization, is important to overall organizational success. The strength of the attachment and the dominant ... -
Mediated Contact and Intergroup Relations: When Koreans Met Americans through U.S. TV Dramas
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-26)This study tested and compared two structural models (i.e., the mediated and the mediated and direct contact) for examining the relationships between the Korean young adults' (N = 288) consumption of American television ... -
Facework in Organizational Conflict: A Cross-Cultural Study Comparing Russians and Americans
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-27)The purpose of this study was to investigate facework during potential conflict situations at work across two national cultures. An online questionnaire was administered to 348 participants in Russia and the United States, ... -
SWEET LITTLE LIES: DECEPTION IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-27)Undoubtedly, deception plays a complex role in romantic relationships. This study examines the use of deception in romantic relationships by utilizing 67 participants' responses to qualitative methodology whereby participants ... -
Public Office or Private Marriage? An Examination of the Influence of the Relationship of the President and First Lady
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-26)This study examined the impact of president and first lady interaction on presidential image, including competency, favorability and homophily. A pre-test and post-test design was used to examine the changes in participants' ... -
The Power of Christ Compelled Her: The Intersectional Identities and Cultural Logic of Bishop Alma B. White
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-23)In a culture inhospitable to women preachers, Alma Bridwell White not only became a successful preacher, but went on to become the first female bishop in the U.S. The leader of her own religious organization, the Pillar ... -
Developing Civic Education in the United States: A Case Study of Olathe, Kansas' Youth Congress Program
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-23)An informed and active citizenry is essential for a well-functioning democracy, and how we teach children citizenship has the potential to invigorate citizen engagement and responsibility. This research looks at a program ... -
Religious Reasons for Campbell's View of Emotional Appeals in Philosophy of Rhetoric
(Taylor & Francis, 2007)Reading Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric from a rhetorical perspective--as an attempt to address issues relevant to religious rhetoric--I argue that Campbell's aims of preparing future ministers to preach and defending ... -
Shaming in and into Argumentation
(Springer Verlag, 2007)Shame appeals may be both relevant to and make possible argumentation with reluctant addressees. I propose a normative pragmatic model of practical reasoning involved in shame appeals and show that its explanatory power ... -
Traditions of Rhetoric, Criticism, and Argument in Lord Kames’s Elements of Criticism
(Taylor & Francis, 2003)The recent neglect of Kames’s Elements of Criticism (1762) has been due in part to disciplinary angst which has fostered two incomplete views of Elements: (1) as a work that trains readers in receptive competence and (2) ... -
Formal Propriety as Rhetorical Norm
(Springer Verlag, 2004)Given the persistent conception of rhetoric as effective persuasion by any means for individual success, it is desirable to describe an alternative standard for evaluating argumentation from a rhetorical perspective. I ... -
Style and Spectator Judgment in Fisher Ames’s Jay Treaty Speech
(Taylor & Francis, 1998)Spectatorship, a key component of political judgment, has received little critical attention. After describing reflective spectator judgment with respect to political judgment and rhetorical theory, I propose a method of ... -
Clerics Competing For and Against ‘Eloquence’ in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain
(Taylor & Francis, 2000)A mid-eighteenth-century debate among three Anglican clerics on the nature and end of eloquence indicates that their views of eloquence share a significant similarity: functionalism. I summarize each participant's position; ... -
Motives for Practicing Criticism as a ‘Rational Science’ in Lord Kames’s Elements of Criticism
(American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2001)The way Lord Kames practices criticism in Elements of Criticism (1762) is not motivated by the new philosophy per se. His use of the new philosophy in the practice of criticism addresses social, political, and nationalistic ... -
A Normative Pragmatic Perspective on Appealing to Emotions in Argumentation
(Springer Verlag, 2006)Is appealing to emotions in argumentation ever legitimate and, if so, what is the best way to analyze and evaluate such appeals? After overviewing a normative pragmatic perspective on appealing to emotions in argumentation, ... -
Towards a Theory of Vivid Description as Practiced in Cicero’s Verrine Orations.
(University of California Press, 1994)Ancient Roman rhetoricians do not offer a systematic theory of vivid description in their rhetorical treatises, perhaps because it was treated at the early stages of a student's education and because it may be produced in ... -
Bernard Lamy’s L’Art de Parler Addresses Religious Exigencies
(University of California Press, 2008)Bernard Lamy's view of rhetoric in L'Art de Parler may be explained as an attempt to address religious exigencies. Lamy advises about two religious roles: theologian and preacher. Theologians' attempts to overcome ignorance ...