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Depression and Drama in Augustine of Hippo’s Rhetorical Imaginary Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Curry Kennedy
Studies of Augustine’s rhetoric have been focused on the De doctrina christiana and the Confessions. As a result, these studies have been restricted to questions of Augustine’s reception of Greco-R...
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Correction Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-16
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Thinkings-Out-Loud: An Introductory Manifest Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jenny Rice
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2024)
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White Tears Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jennifer Lin LeMesurier
In this article, I explore the rhetorical deployment of White tears, tears that are circulated within narratives of interracial conflict as evidence for the rightness of White supremacist norms. Mo...
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The World Has Ended, Long Live Worlds: Rhetoric at the Limit of Humanness Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Nathan Stormer
The “end of the world” trope can be rote in popular culture, but its critical deployment is not so and exposes something about rhetoric’s relationship to humanness and to humanism, which is that th...
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Aporia in Barack Obama’s 2016 Dallas Police Memorial Speech Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Kenneth Zagacki, Chandra A. Maldonado
On 13 July 2016, President Barack Obama delivered a speech memorializing five police officers slain during a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas, Texas. Obama’s speech came on the heels of many oth...
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The Unbearable Obliqueness of Rhetoric Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Casey Boyle
This short essay explores oblique approaches to rhetorical theory and practice and, in doing so, accidently arrives at a renewed appreciation of Aesthetics.
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Book Review Introduction Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Nathaniel Rivers
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2024)
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Rhetoric and the Cultural Politics of Donald Trump Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 T. Kenny Fountain
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2024)
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Democracy as Fetish Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Azadeh Ghanizadeh
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2024)
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American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Nancy R. Gómez Arrieta
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2024)
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Reconsidering Kairos through the Gendered History of Weaving Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jordynn Jack, Emma M. Duvall
Scholars have often noted that the Greek rhetorical term, kairos, relates etymologically to weaving. However, many accounts of this connection overlook the weaving technology used in ancient Greece...
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Exigence at the Dawn of Recommendation Media: Dramatizing Salience in Audio Memes Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Noah Roderick
This article looks at how exigence is made publicly observable in user-based media operating on recommendation algorithms. Messaging in these rhetorical environments often takes the form of imitati...
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We Are Not One People: Secession and Separatism in American Politics Since 1776 Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Crystal Broch Colombini
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 1, 2024)
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Cadaverous Rhetorics and Affective Regulation at the Anatomical Museum Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 S. Scott Graham
This article explores cadaverous rhetorics with a focus on public displays of human remains at anatomical museums. The article has two primary components: First, it advances a theory of cadaverous ...
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Making the Lover’s Leap: Wenonah, Rhetorical Colonialism, and Dissociative Memory(-)Work Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Adam Gaffey
This essay analyzes a display of Wenonah and the “Lover’s Leap” in Winona, Minnesota, as an example of dissociative memory(-)work. Applying dissociation to the organization of commemorative space, ...
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Transforming Confederate Memory Sites into Spaces for Encounter: Reclaiming Space at Marcus-David Peters Circle Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Kelly Williams Nagel
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police in May 2020, cities across the United States erupted in protest. These public displays reignited debates over the presence of Confederate ...
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What Is the Sound of One Hand Playing: Aural Body Rhetoric in the Music of Horace Parlan and Paul Wittgenstein Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Bill Heinze, Atilla Hallsby
This essay examines the lives of two pianists with significant impairments of their right arms: Paul Wittgenstein, a classical pianist who lost his right arm in World War I, and Horace Parlan, a ja...
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“Our Hidden Revenge”: Anti/Colonial Rhetorics at a Korean Women’s College Graduation, 1918 Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Nathan Tillman
This article explores rhetorics connected to the 1918 graduation of Korea’s first women’s college. The study examines textual and visual archives from the early 1900s to 1965, drawing on scholarshi...
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Toxic Contamination and Land-Body Relations: Storytelling, Metaphor, and Topoi at the Former Badger Army Ammunition Plant Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Kassia Shaw
The former Badger Army Ammunition Plant in rural southern Wisconsin has long been a landscape mired in settler colonial and industrial attempts to sever social and cultural relations between land a...
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“It’s Just Business”: Michael Jackson’s Purchase of the Beatles Catalog as Counterpunch, Copia, and Rhythmic Reparations Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 K. Shannon Howard
According to Black Twitter community members, who were active online just after rock ‘n’ roll artist Little Richard’s passing in 2020, Michael Jackson’s purchase of the Beatles catalog (thirty-five...
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Strategic Linguistic Choices within the Swedish Disability Movement: Practical Reasoning, Agency, and Antiableist Challenges Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Mats Landqvist
This essay examines how the Swedish disability movement creates policies involving naming practices as a means for self-presentation. The study takes its departure from two kinds of empirical data:...
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Epideictic Listening: From a Reflective Case Study to a Theory of Community Ethos Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Sarah Hart Micke, Angela Sowa, Lisl Davies, Emily Graboski, Maya Piñón
Inspired by challenges we faced in an undergraduate community-literacy cohort, we theorize “epideictic listening” as an important concept for articulating the range of listening strategies necessar...
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Similaic Eroticism and Polymorphic Sexuality Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Nitzan Familia
This article performs a psycho-rhetorical reading of the generalized theorization and specific application of simile in classical and early modern rhetorical treatises and in Shakespeare’s similaic...
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What Is the Church? Defining Communal Commonplaces in the Pennsylvania State Statute of Limitations Debate Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Allison Niebauer
What exactly is the Church? Is it primarily an institution? Or is it the people in its pews? And depending on the answer, what obligations do the people who constitute it in the present have toward...
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Response from Jessica Enoch Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Jessica Enoch
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 5, 2023)
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Jessica Enoch’s “Suffrage Statuary and Commemorative Accountability” (RSQ 53.2) Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Myriam Miedzian, Gary Ferdman
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 5, 2023)
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The Circle of Life: Rhetoric, Rectification, and Recreation at Steele Indian School Park Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Kathleen S. Lamp, Emily Robinson
Steele Indian School Park (2001), a city park in Phoenix, Arizona, serves as the memory site for the Phoenix Indian School (1891–1990), an off-reservation boarding school that was part of the feder...
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Transnational Rhetorical Circulation in the Splinternet Age Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Zhaozhe Wang
The splinternet continues to chip away at transnationally networked publics and reconfigure the digital landscape along national borders. What would a fractured cyberspace mean for conceptualizing ...
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Escaping the Prison House of Effects: The Persistence of an Anachronism in Rhetoric Studies Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 John Arthos
Persuasive effect will always be an essential part of rhetoric studies, but it should not be either its ready shorthand, identifying trait, or lodestar. The decades-long momentum to move beyond the...
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Rhetoric and/of the Common(s) Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 E. Johanna Hartelius
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 3, 2023)
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The (Under)Commons across the Américas: Connecting Spaces for Fugitivity and Futurity Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Stacey K. Sowards
ABSTRACT This essay examines how the concepts of enclaves, satellites (Squires), and undercommons (Harney and Moten) intersect in ways that create space for fugitivity, anticolonial thinking, and futurity. Enclaves and satellites can function as a place of hiding to protect radical gestures, ideas, and activism, whereas the undercommons work as spaces to upend institutions, organizations, and cultures
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The Long Speech: Rhetorical Abundance in Circulation Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Matthew deTar, Erik Johnson
This essay analyzes excessively long speeches in order to argue that circulation naturalizes rhetorical processes that govern meaning within texts. In our view, abundant acts of address unsettle do...
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Epideictic Distance: The Complacent Publics of Environmental Rephotography Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Jacob Greene
In this article, I argue that an epideictic approach to climate rephotography may produce what Jenny Rice has referred to as “exceptional” public subjectivities by encouraging audiences to further ...
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With Love from San Antonio: Settler Souvenir Postals and Mass Reproductions of “Mexicans” Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Sierra Mendez
The persuasive power of souvenir postal cards has been overlooked in scholarship. This essay examines how settlers in San Antonio, at the turn of the twentieth century, used souvenir postal cards s...
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Ticking Clocks: Rhetorics of Tenure and (In)Fertility Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Steph Ceraso, Pamela VanHaitsma
This essay initiates a critical conversation about (in)fertility in academia. We argue that four patterns of discourse exacerbate the challenges for women and trans* academics struggling to conceiv...
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More than Mere Child’s Play: Youth Activism, Ephebic Appeals, and Environmental Communication Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Christopher Scott Thomas
In this essay, age is considered a relevant and significant subject position in which ecological advocates put forth ideologies and cultural constructions of youth to communicate about and for the ...
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The Human Microbiome as Visceral Commons: Resisting Rhetorical Enclosure Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Allison L. Rowland
ABSTRACT Exhortations to tend to the flourishing of one’s gut microbes have increased in past years and can be recited by rote: consume pre- and probiotics, diverse plants, and fermented foods; avoid unnecessary medicinal antibiotics and antimicrobial products. Recognizing that all frontiers of enclosure require corollary rhetorical enclosures, this essay locates the human microbiome as an imminent
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“I Wish I Could Give You This Feeling”: Black Digital Commons and the Rhetoric of “The Corner” Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Catherine Knight Steele, Alisa Hardy
ABSTRACT The unique experience of Black Americans in the United States produces a physical and cultural space with a long history of misuse, commodification, and theft of the Black imagination and Black culture. These spaces, which also historically complicate notions of privatization and ownership, are replicated online today. In this essay, we propose the corner as a lens through which to interrogate
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Memorializing with and for the Undercommons: Black Study and Unsettling Grounds Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Diane Marie Keeling, Ariel E. Seay-Howard, Bethany O’Shea
ABSTRACT This research demonstrates how public memorializing can enable practices of the undercommons. Using the Equal Justice Initiative’s Soil Collection Community Remembrance Project as our case study, we demonstrate how coalition-building shapes memory in the creation, rather than viewing, of memorial artifacts. We argue that the Soil Collection CRP enables two practices of the undercommons, Black
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“It’s Like a Fairytale, Really”: Capitalist Fantasy, Postplanetary Rhetoric, and the New Space Race Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 James Rushing Daniel
Recently, a private space race has emerged, helmed by some of the world’s wealthiest figures. These space entrepreneurs, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk most prominently, have framed the new space race as...
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Movidas after Nationalism: Enriqueta Longeaux y Vasquez and Chicana Aesthetics Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 José G. Izaguirre III
This essay traces the Chicana feminist rhetoric of prominent activist Enriqueta Longeaux y Vasquez in the late 1960s. I argue that Longeaux y Vasquez’s Chicana movida(s), the enactment of feminist ...
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Precarious Commons: Archiving Soviet Terror in Contemporary Russia Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Ekaterina V. Haskins
ABSTRACT Using the example of Memorial, Russia’s oldest nongovernmental organization, this essay develops the concept of “precarious commons” to describe the continuous and uncertain process of creating an open-access digital resource and maintaining a community around it. In 2022, Memorial became one of the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for its decades-long efforts to open official archives
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Intimacies of the Common: Enclosure, Solidarity, and the Possibilities of Critical Publicity under Capitalism Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Matthew W. Bost, Joshua S. Hanan
ABSTRACT This essay places rhetorical theories of publicity and the common in conversation around the concept of intimacy. Defined as a felt sense of proximity or closeness, intimacy is a form of affective relation that underlies both private and public worldmaking practices, and that produces investments in certain forms of life and community. Considering the relationship between publicity and the
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Sophie vs. the Machine: Neo-Luddism as Response to Technical-Colonial Corruption of the General Intellect Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Jonathan S. Carter, Misti Yang
ABSTRACT Historically, the commons is conceptually rooted in concerns over shared expertise derived from material resources. Contemporary understandings increasingly examine varied commons rooted in the general intellect—an affective and ideational production across people. Too often, this focus reduces technology to either a tool for, or impediment to, building and accessing robust commons, and overlooks
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Climate Politics on the Border: Environmental Justice Rhetorics Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Bridie McGreavy
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 5, 2023)
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Writing Their Bodies: Restoring Rhetorical Relations at the Carlisle Indian School Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Kendyl Harmeling
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 5, 2023)
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I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Billie Murray
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 5, 2023)
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Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Andrew Heermans
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 5, 2023)
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Deplorable: The Worst Presidential Campaigns from Jefferson to Trump Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Jennifer Keohane
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 5, 2023)
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Vaccine Rhetorics Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Judy Z. Segal
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2023)
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Touching This Leviathan Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Amy D. Propen
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2023)
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Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Karrieann Soto Vega
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2023)
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What Wizardry is this?: Somatic Listening and Verbal Metaphor in an Undergraduate Voice Studio Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Maria Kingsbury
Through the description of activity in an undergraduate voice studio, this essay posits the concept of somatic listening, an active and embodied engagement with verbal metaphor. Somatic listening, ...
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Being in Good Faith: African American Women in Defense of Anita Hill Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Darrian Carroll
In this essay, I examine the 17 November 1991 “African American Women in Defense of Ourselves” advertisement in the New York Times. The advertisement is a reflection of 1,600 Black women coming to ...
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(An) Allegory of the Undercommons: A Rhetorical Slipstream into the Fugitive Temporal Horizon Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Matthew Houdek
ABSTRACT To survive the unfolding civilizational crisis will require thinking/feeling (sentipensar) across discordant struggles and systems of thought and breaking the repetitions of diagnostic criticism. To these ends/beginnings, I offer a Counterallegory of the Cave to revision The World by listening to those “strange prisoners” Plato stripped of voice/agency. What might The World, or discipline
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Thinning the Herd: COVID-19 and the Rhetoric of Trumpian Catastrophe Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Luke Winslow
As COVID-19 infections spread in early 2020, the term herd immunity drew the Trump administration’s attention as a remedy for redressing the pandemic. However, scientific experts warned the Trump a...
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Interconnectivity and Power Subversion: Enacting the Rhetoric of According-With Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Hua Zhu
In comparative rhetoric, interconnectivity emerges as a frame to conceptualize power struggle, one that specifically counters othering and the underlying essentialist and colonial logics. Interconn...
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Heritage and Hate: Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 J. David Maxson
Published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Vol. 53, No. 4, 2023)
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The Problem with Police-Recorded Video Rhetoric Society Quarterly (IF 0.878) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Rhiannon Goad
Judges and jurists frequently read police-recorded video as arhetorical. It is not. Footage recorded from the perspective of an officer favors police. Drawing on both Burke’s theory of identificati...