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Polyvalent Practices and Heteropraxis as Heuristic: A Survey of Doctoral Examination Processes in Rhetoric and Composition Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Ryan Michael Murphy
While scholarship in rhetoric and composition has deliberated its disciplinary identity, we do not yet have a current account of how pluralistic approaches to curriculum at the doctoral level profe...
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Public Memory, Affect, and the Battle of Culloden: The Creation of Shared Emotional Memory through Two Exhibits at the Culloden Visitor Centre Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Valerie Lynn Schrader
This essay applies Wood’s process model of emotional memory synchronization to better understand how public memory of the Battle of Culloden, an integral event in Scottish history, is created throu...
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Identifying Specific Arguments in Discussion Sections of Science Research Articles: Making the Case for New Knowledge Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Michael Carter
Discussion sections of research articles are important because they are where researchers make claims for advancing knowledge in their fields. There has been a growing interest in research articles...
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There Went the Neighborhood: Spatial Rhetoric, Spatial Occupation, Regendering and Forgetting in Mid-Century Detroit Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Liz Rohan
This essay shows the rhetorical and material process of regendering and forgetting that accompanied the downsizing and tearing down of U.S. progressive-era settlement homes founded by female matern...
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Analog to Digital and Back Again: The Rhetoric of Graffiti Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Jonathan Marine
While current approaches to theorizing rhetorical circulation often designate digital rhetorics as their object of study, this designation unintentionally closes off rhetorical inquiry. Analog, mat...
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Engaging Museums: Rhetorical Education and Social Justice Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Isaac James Richards
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania: Life Under the Totalitarian Gaze Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Christene d’Anca
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Proleptic Logics in Media Coverage of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, Carolyn Eckert, Sara Doody, Sarah Forst, Brad Mehlenbacher
The rhetorical figure of speech called prolepsis, describing a presaging of time and events to come, commonly appears in environmental communication and importantly frames the possibilities for act...
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Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Kat Williams
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)
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Reclaiming Malintzin: Epideictic Practices of a Chicana Rhetoric Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Miriam L Fernandez
This article analyzes the epideictic practices Chicana rhetors use to reclaim the figure of Malintzin, a woman cast as a promiscuous traitor for her role in the Spanish conquest. Since the figure o...
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Imagining Protection from Domestic Gun Violence Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Craig Rood
This essay rhetorically analyzes stories about domestic gun violence from Everytown for Gun Safety’s website, “Moments That Survive.” These everyday writers challenge America’s dominant narrative o...
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The Rhetorical Influence of Contemporary Evangélicas Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Bethany Mannon
This essay uses a cultural rhetoric framework to analyze Hermanas: Deepening our Identity and Growing Our Influence (2019), a multi-authored book by evangelical Latinas in the U.S. The distinct sto...
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What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of … Well … Us? A Response to Richard Leo Enos about the Possibilities for a 21st Century Rhetorical Education Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Ryan Skinnell
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)
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Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Drew Holladay
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)
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Wise (Teen) Anger on Twitter: Greta Thunberg Uses “Bio Warfare” to Reshape Oppressive Anger Norms Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Britt Starr
Abstract “Bio warfare” describes a digital rhetorical tactic used by teen climate activist Greta Thunberg to challenge oppressive anger norms and assert a feminist paradigm that sees sometimes-angry teen girl activists as credible, rational rhetors. On the surface, the rhetorical strategy is simple: Thunberg copy/pastes world leaders’ disparaging language into her 160-character Twitter bio. Yet, in
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“Crusaders on a Quest for Democracy”: Addie W. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson’s Black Civic Pedagogy Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-06-23 David Gold
Abstract This article examines Hunton and Johnson’s Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces, which recounts their WWI YMCA service in France supporting Black troops. TCW exemplifies a long tradition of Black civic pedagogy, drawing on prophetic and empirical strategies to teach audiences that Black experience and racial justice are foundational to American democracy. Deploying the
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“One Among Many”: Piety Reconstruction in 12-Step Recovery Groups Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Michelle Cowan
Abstract This article applies Kenneth Burke’s concept of piety to an evaluation of nine recovery stories from members of four different 12-step fellowships. In this theoretical context, recovery can be explained as a process of adopting and remaking pious systems. All nine recovery stories follow a similar pattern: (1) identifying difference and similarity in the community; (2) letting go of old pieties;
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Toward a Rhetorical Theory of the Face: Algorithmic Inequalities and Biometric Masks as Material Protest Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-06-23 David R. Gruber
Abstract Despite calls to give greater attention to bodies and infrastructures, and despite the development of facial recognition software and face replacement apps, not to mention medical face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic and a long history of political faces in the news, rhetoric has not directly nor adequately dealt with the face. I offer a new materialist rhetorical theory of the face, drawing
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Why Has America Produced so Few Eloquent Orators in Recent Years? The Ancient Roman Marcus Tullius Cicero Gives Us the Answer and the Remedy Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Richard Leo Enos
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 2, 2023)
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Histories of Ethos: World Perspectives on Rhetoric. Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Rira Zamani
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 2, 2023)
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Rhetoric Re-View: The Rhetorical Tradition and Modern Writing Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Richard Leo Enos
Abstract Rhetoric Re-View was established under the founding editorship of Theresa J. Enos and has been a feature of Rhetoric Review for over twenty-five years. The objective of Rhetoric Re-View is to offer review essays of prominent works that have made an impact on rhetoric. Reviewers evaluate the merits of established works, discussing their past and present contributions. The intent is to provide
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Gestures of Concern Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Catherine Chaput
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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Rearticulating “Crisis” and the U.S.-Mexico Border Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Maclain Scott
Abstract This article examines how “crisis” declarations resonate within and reinforce a national imaginary that commonly configures the U.S.-Mexico border as under threat by migrants. Drawing on Karen Barad, the author approaches crisis declarations as phenomena produced via their entanglement with, and exclusion of, particular configurations of the border, a process that contributes to the ongoing
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Trivialization and Disembodiment of the Black Lives Matter Movement through the Hashtag #BlackLinesMatter Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Ann N. Amicucci
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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State-Run Martial Arts Institutions: The Rhetorical (Re)Inventions of Taekwondo Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Spencer Bennington
Abstract Martial arts organizations can become Foucaultian institutions that discipline and punish practitioner bodies to enact ideologies of violence. In this article, I describe how these institutions function by examining the rhetorical history of one specific martial art, Taekwondo. My analysis extends Hawhee’s examination of Ancient Greek athletics to include modern martial bodies and the associated
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Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Jazzie Marie Terrell
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Michael J. Benjamin
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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Masked Meanings: COVID-19 and the Subversion of Stasis Hierarchy Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Genevieve Gordon, Ben Wetherbee
Abstract Partisan rhetoric surrounding COVID-era face-masking has reshuffled traditional stasis hierarchy, allowing the middle stases of definition and quality, which emphasize epideictic motives of cultural affirmation, to supersede conjectural questions of medical efficacy. Viral images positioning masks as metonymic approximations of “authoritarianicity” and government overreach illustrate how right-wing
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Epideictic Metaphor: Uncovering Values and Celebrating Dissonance Through a Reframing of Voice Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Brigitte Mussack
Abstract This article provides a framework for analyzing metaphor as epideictic rhetoric, accounting for the persistence of key disciplinary metaphors. It examines the metaphor of voice across distinct theoretical conversations as an example of epideictic metaphor. Voice’s epideictic function allows it to reconceptualize the shared value of power as it celebrates this value by stitching and unstitching
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Students’ Social Media Disclosures: Reconsidering the Rhetorics of Whistleblowing Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Sarah Riddick
Abstract This article examines how whistleblowing evolves as a rhetorical genre alongside emergent media. By analyzing three events involving student disclosures on social media, this article argues that students’ social media communication can qualify as whistleblowing, just as whistleblowing can qualify as rhetoric. Notably, whistleblowing’s current conventions, which are heavily based in business
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Job Market Mentoring in Rhetoric and Composition and Technical Communication Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Zarah C. Moeggenberg
Abstract Based on survey responses from eighty-five scholars on the job market from 2013 and 2019, this article examines mentoring for the job market in rhetoric and composition and technical communication. Respondents indicate needs for job market mentoring; more transparency about the job market itself; and more extensive, integrated support throughout graduate programs. The article concludes with
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The Impact of the Literate Revolution on Orality in Ancient Athens: A Synthesis Essay on Rhetorical Research with Commentary Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Richard Leo Enos
Abstract The impact of written communication in ancient Athens, particularly the social consequences of literacy on an oral culture, has been a subject of keen interest among rhetoricians. This essay synthesizes current research on the impact of literacy in ancient Athens from a rhetorical vector. One of the principal observations discussed in this review of current research is that the alphabetic
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Women’s Ways of Making Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Sheri Rysdam
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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Decoding the Digital Church: Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Eryn Johnson
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Lyndsey Lepovitz
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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Turning Tricks in Athens Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-07-13 T Passwater
Abstract This paper examines Aeschines’s speech Against Timarchus to offer frameworks for rhetoric to examine the historical particularities of sex work. Drawing on feminist and queer rhetorics, this paper rereads Against Timarchus as well as scholarly receptions of the speech to discuss how Timarchus has been positioned outside definitions of rhetoric in ways that highlight the instability of definitions
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Unmaking Colonial Fictions: Cherríe Moraga’s Rhetorics of Fragmentation and Semi-ness Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Loretta Victoria Ramirez
Abstract Throughout Cherríe Moraga’s publications (1979 to present), we see her writings pivot from expressions of cohesive oneness to articulations of generative fragmentation. Moraga’s emerged attention to metaphorical woundedness participates in Chicanx rhetorics of fragmentation, which undermines colonial fictions that the self is whole and unified. Such rhetoric emphasizes potentials of semi-ness
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Ethos, Hospitality, and the Pursuit of Rhetorical Healing: How Three Decolonial Cookbooks Reconstitute Cultural Identity through Ancestral Foodways Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Brita M. Thielen
Abstract This article participates in contemporary conversations about ethos by extending conceptions of ethos as dwelling places” or ecologies” to ethos as hospitality. Such extension involves attending to how three recent decolonial cookbook authors construct stable textual identities and ethos using rhetorics of healing, constitutive rhetoric, and utopian rhetoric. The cookbooks under analysis–Afro-Vegan
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Food, Feminist Rhetorical Studies, and Conservative Women: The Case of Elizabeth David Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Richard Vytniorgu
Abstract This article argues for the importance of British food writer Elizabeth David (1913-1992) in questioning the centrality of power in feminist rhetorical studies and thereby furthering our capacity to understand the diversity of conservative women and their rhetorical projects. The article analyzes David’s pathos in her landmark volume of gastronomical essays, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine
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Bridging the Gap: Speculative Roles of Specific Intellectuals in Climate Justice Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-07-13 John Purfield
Abstract The climate change crisis is a matter of increasing concern to rhetoric and composition. Some scholars in the discipline, specifically on the new materialist turn, have engaged and accounted for the damage through methodologies of ontological entanglement and relationality. The potential of ontological accounts to facilitate global activism faces the obstacle of scalar derangement. By acting
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A Play on Occlusion: Uptake of Letters to the University President Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Katja Thieme
Abstract Occlusion is most commonly presented as an aspect of certain genres: occluded genres. Here, occlusion is proposed as a property of the processes by which genres are taken up. While routine use of genres creates expectations around when the genre’s uptake is commonly occluded, such expected practice can be subverted by deliberate disclosure. Occlusion and disclosure in the process of genre
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Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Cherice Escobar Jones
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 41, No. 3, 2022)
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Rhetorics of Overcoming: Rewriting Narratives of Disability and Accessibility in Writing Studies. Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Abigail Long
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 41, No. 3, 2022)
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Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Belinda Walzer
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 41, No. 3, 2022)
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“Motherhood, Saliency, and Flattening Effects: World War I and the ‘The Greatest Mother in the World’” Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Suzanne Bordelon
Abstract This essay analyzes Alonzo Earl Foringer Foringer, Alonzo Earl. “The Greatest Mother in the World” [1917?]. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, Web. [Google Scholar]’s “Greatest Mother in the World” poster, created for the American Red Cross during World War I but circulated in Britain and America during World War I and II. Although the image was highly circulated and reproduced
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Radcliffe’s Strongest Woman: The Bricolaged Body in One Progressive Era Women’s College Scrapbook Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Sara Cooper
Abstract This essay demonstrates how a progressive era Radcliffe College student (1910-1914) who earned the title “strongest woman” for her athletic feats used the unique genre affordances of the scrapbook to assert an identity that at once aligned with and contradicted dominant rhetoric about women’s bodies and education. Drawing on archived personal artifacts, the essay argues that Eleanor Stabler
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Songs “Girls” Love and Hate: Finding Feminist Agency in 1960s Girl Groups and Girl Singers During #MeToo Moments Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Maureen Daly Goggin, Krista Ratcliffe
Abstract Musicologists question whether 1960s girl group music is “fluff or an incubator for radical ferment,” and fans question what to do with the music’s sexism, heteronormativity, and racism (McClary and Warwick 232). This article argues that 1960s girl group songs have much to teach us about a spectrum of agencies available within cultural scripts of the 1960s U.S. teen romance myth as represented
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Creationist Science and the Rhetorical Capacity of the Scientific Method Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Meg M. Marquardt
Abstract Rhetoricians of science often (rightly) demarcate as antiscientific the way creationists engage with, manipulate, and circulate scientific knowledge. Though this demarcation work is essential for understanding how creationists manipulate science in the public sphere, relying on demarcation analysis closes off rhetorical inquiry. By analyzing Answers Research Journal, a creationist scientific
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The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-04-21 McKinley Green
(2022). The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 146-148.
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Review of Interrogating Gendered Pathologies Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Erin Trauth, Ella R. Browning
(2022). Review of Interrogating Gendered Pathologies. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 148-151.
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Stripped: Reading the Erotic Body Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Sidney Turner
(2022). Stripped: Reading the Erotic Body. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 151-154.
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Redefining Rhetorical Figures through Cognitive Ecologies: Repetition and Description in a Canadian Wind Energy Debate Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Jordynn Jack
ABSTRACT While current cognitive approaches to rhetorical figures portray them as internalized to the brain, rhetorical figures emerge through embodied experiences within an environment, crystallizing material patterns and bringing elements of a cognitive ecology into relief. In particular, figures of repetition coordinate regularities in the environment, linking repeated items into relational relationships
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Quilting as a Qualitative, Feminist Research Method: Expanding Understandings of Migrant Deaths Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Sonia C. Arellano
ABSTRACT Centering the author’s experience of representing migrant deaths through non-discursive composing practices, this article forwards quilting as a feminist, qualitative research method. The author promotes quilting as method, grounded in arts based research and feminist rhetorical practices, a method that functions as a three-part scaffold in practice: employing critical imagination through
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Inventing the Slums: Rhetoric, Race, and Place in Westlake Terrace Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Joshua M. Rea
ABSTRACT This article examines connections between rhetoric, race, and place. Using archival research to examine Westlake Terrace, the author asks how the rhetorics of places like Westlake racialize the place and its people. The article shows that these rhetorics perpetuate the agenda of structural racism, and the material consequences of these rhetorics. It is argued that looking at the history of
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Acknowledging Betrayal: The Rhetorical Power of Victim Impact Statements in the Nassar Hearing Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Shari J. Stenberg
ABSTRACT This essay features a grounded theory analysis of the 156 Victim Impact Statements delivered by sexual assault survivors of Olympics and Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar. I show how the Victim Impact Statements function as public, collective testimony that highlight the ramifications of unacknowledged betrayal. They narrate how adults and institutions looked away from abuse in
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Rhetoric of Social Statistics: Statistical Persuasion and Argumentation in the Lumosity Memory Wars Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Candice Lanius
ABSTRACT The Lumosity games and subsequent “memory wars” illustrate the rhetorical power of statistics in public discourse. Defenders of Lumosity build upon discursive traces based in societal fears and arguments based in “science” supported through statistics and experimentation. Detractors of Lumosity argue that their experiments are faulty. A close rhetorical reading reveals that certain commonalities
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Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Caroline Dadas
(2022). Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 73-75.
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Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Jennifer Jacovitch
(2022). Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 75-77.
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Octalog IV: The Politics of Rhetorical Studies in 2021 Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2021-12-04 Elise Verzosa Hurley
(2021). Octalog IV: The Politics of Rhetorical Studies in 2021. Rhetoric Review: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 321-348.
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Persuasion’s Physique: Revisiting Sign-Inference in Aristotle’s Rhetoric Rhetoric Review Pub Date : 2021-12-04 José G. Izaguirre III
ABSTRACT A concept in Aristotle’s thought that is both politically and rhetorically significant for all life forms is a sign (sêmeion). Yet, scholarship has historically left underexplored how Aristotle positions the utility of a sign across human and nonhuman animal domains. Rereading his presentation of signs in the Rhetoric in light of his statements on the use of sign-inference through physiognomy