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Communication Studies Scholarly Works: 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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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 ... -
Kames's Legal Career and Writings as Precedents for Elements of Criticism.
(University of California Press, 2005)Scholars have seldom explored relationships among Lord Kames's legal career and writings and Elements of Criticism. After considering why Kames did not write a rhetoric of legal advocacy, I argue that Kames's legal career ... -
George Mackenzie on Scottish Judicial Rhetoric
(University of California Press, 2002)George Mackenzie’s “What Eloquence is fit for the Bar” (1672), perhaps unique in the early modern literature of Scots law, provides access to the state of judicial rhetoric in post-Restoration Scotland. This essay summarizes ... -
Objective Rejection?: The Effects of Agreement and Involvement on Message Quality Evaluation
(Department of Communication at the University of Utah, 2007)To extend argument quality research, this article explores the effects of agreement and issue im- portance on argument quality assessment for eight different topic areas to explore whether there is systematic bias in the ... -
Adolescent smoking networks: The effects of influence and selection on future smoking
(Elsevier, 2007)Peer influence and peer selection have both been linked to the smoking behavior of adolescents. The present investigation uses social network analysis methodology to explore the simultaneous effects of both processes on ...