{"title":"Defining “the enemy” in revolutionary America: From the rhetoric of protest to the rhetoric of war","authors":"J. Hogan, L. Williams","doi":"10.1080/10417949609373024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949609373024","url":null,"abstract":"During the Stamp Act crisis, colonial protest leaders relied upon a tradition of legitimate, extralegal coercion to justify mob actions against stamp distributors. As the conflict between Britain and its colonies escalated, however, whig leaders broadened their definition of “the enemy” to include a variety of fellow colonists, making it more difficult to justify coercion and violence on traditional grounds. Following the outbreak of war, radical whigs justified the suppression of all remaining dissent with appeals, not to tradition, but to a revolutionary theory of popular sovereignty. This change marked a key rhetorical “moment” in the coming of the Revolution, but its legacy also threatened the political stability of the new American Republic.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134250621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kenneth Burke's theory of form: Rhetoric, art, and cultural analysis","authors":"Omar Swartz","doi":"10.1080/10417949609373027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949609373027","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay I argue that Kenneth Burke's early persona as a social/cultural critic can be seen as fundamental to understanding his later, more theoretical discussion of language. In defending this position, I demonstrate how Burke's rhetorical theory is enriched by reading it as an extension of his early socialist and cultural concerns. By recognizing the rhetorical qualities of artistic expression, Burke historicizes art, making it easier for rhetorical theorists to engage in cultural analysis.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121278002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rhetorical synthesis and the discourse of Jack Kemp","authors":"G. Chapel","doi":"10.1080/10417949609373030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949609373030","url":null,"abstract":"One of the more intriguing politicians today is Jack Kemp whose rhetoric synthesizes images and arguments that appear to be contradictory. In his public discourse, Kemp proudly proclaims his staunch conservative supply‐side economics, while at the same time aggressively chastising his own Republican colleagues for failing to be the true progressive party of Lincoln. Kemp's rhetoric cannot be examined in isolation but should be seen as a part of a larger conversation focusing on the inability of traditional conservatism and traditional liberalism to meaningfully respond to the growing political fragmentation, deepening cynicism, and diminished sense of community in America today. Kemp's rhetorical synthesis provides one possible bridging mechanism that directly addresses these current problems.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130400477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vocabularies of motives in a crisis of academic leadership","authors":"B. Allen, P. Tompkins","doi":"10.1080/10417949609373028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949609373028","url":null,"abstract":"This study applies a model about discourse of divorcing individuals to the disintegration of a relationship between a formal organization and one of its employees. The authors recount a set of events in which university administrators and faculty tried to force the institution's president out of her job, but she refused to leave. To interpret the narrative, the authors employ a sociologist's application of Burke's symbolic notion of motives to studies of discursive practices of persons engaged in divorce. The authors argue that vocabularies of motives offered in marriage break‐ups parallel those provided by organizational actors involved in initiating and resisting termination.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128542387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Participants’ and observers’ memory for conversational behavior","authors":"William L. Benoit, P. Benoit, James R. Wilkie","doi":"10.1080/10417949609373007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949609373007","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated four hypotheses concerning conversational memory: (1) participants remember more conversational information than observers, (2) participants rely more than observers on memory for specific conversational episodes and less on verbal implicit theories of communication behavior, (3) observers remember more verbal information than nonverbal (when that information is elicited verbally), and (4) observers’ recognition of specific communication behavior is more accurate than frequency estimates of similar behaviors. Each hypothesis was confirmed, which calls into question the practice of generalizing results from studies of observers to conversational participants.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115951480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate/commercial speech and the marketplace first amendment: Whose right was it, anyway?","authors":"W. Bailey","doi":"10.1080/10417949609373006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949609373006","url":null,"abstract":"Contrary to popular American myth, freedom of speech as a right of individuals in a participatory democracy is virtually nonexistent. As defined in Supreme Court case law, freedom of speech is conceived principally as the right of society to hear information. This essay argues that the collective right to hear, expressed as “the marketplace of ideas” is the portal through which corporate commercial/political speech entered and took over the marketplace of ideas. The symbiotic relationships between corporations, corporate media, and government enabled the takeover to be less than hostile. Short of social cataclysm, individual freedom of speech will probably play an increasingly diminished role in American public affairs.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"84 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132271792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gorgias on arrangement: A search for pragmatism amidst the art and epistemology of Gorgias of Leontini","authors":"Mark A. Smeltzer","doi":"10.1080/10417949609373008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949609373008","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research has focused on Gorgias of Leontini's epistemology and his stylistic/artistic uses of language; while little attention has been paid to the pragmatics of his speech making. An analysis of the Gorgianic corpus reveals that throughout each level of his discourse, Gorgias displayed what appears to be a discernible theory of rhetorical arrangement. The four basic speech parts (introduction, narration, argument and conclusion) are apparent in his speeches, and in addition to generating this quantitative theory of arrangement, it can be shown that Gorgias’ arguments were almost identical in their logical presentation of the claims supported.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129547708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marilyn Quayle meets the press: Marilyn Loses","authors":"E. Gold, Reneé Speicher","doi":"10.1080/10417949609373004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949609373004","url":null,"abstract":"Analysis of forty newspaper articles appearing in major daily newspapers about Marilyn Quayle, wife of the vice‐presidential candidate and then, wife of the vice‐president reveals the difficulties facing contemporary political spouses as they attempt to break through an established paradigm in which women belong in the private sphere while men are placed in the public sphere. As Marilyn Quayle combined a political and public role with a traditional domestic role, she found herself facing highly critical media reports. These reports focused on the themes of Quayle's clothing, her intelligence and her advisory position to Dan Quayle. Descriptions of her clothing, hairdo, skirt size etc. served to confine her to a traditional role, but when Quayle stepped into a public role appearing as highly intelligent and an influential adviser to her candidate husband, media reports were critical. Additionally, Marilyn Quayle's publicly stated dislike of the press and its coverage violated political protocol and hence b...","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114854025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The making of a people's champion: An analysis of media representations of George Foreman","authors":"David E. Engen","doi":"10.1080/10417949509372971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949509372971","url":null,"abstract":"The present essay attempts to uncover possible reasons for George Foreman's dramatic upsurge in popularity. The major argument advanced is that Foreman's largely media created image incorporates several features closely related to traditional stereotypes of the African‐American male. More specifically, it is argued that Foreman is presented and presents himself as what Geist (1983) terms the “rural sambo” that is, a sort of “ignorant, fun‐loving buffoon.” Support for this argument comes from a variety of artifacts, among them, published interviews with Foreman, newspaper and periodical articles about Foreman, and commercials in which Foreman appears. The essay concludes by arguing that representations of African‐American athletes deserve the same type of critical attention given to the representation of African‐Americans in film and television.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126311970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Listening styles and empathy","authors":"J. Weaver, Michelle D. Kirtley","doi":"10.1080/10417949509372970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949509372970","url":null,"abstract":"Linkages between four listening styles (people‐, action‐, content‐, and time‐oriented) and three constructs of empathy (empathetic responsiveness, perspective taking, and sympathetic responsiveness) were examined. Data from an extensive survey reveal that individuals scoring high on the people listening style reported a tendency to be sympathetic but not empathetic with regard to another in an aversive situation. Conversely, individuals scoring high on either the action or time listening styles exhibited a tendency to feel little concern or pity for others in need. And, those scoring high on the content listening style exhibited the ability to interact with emotionally upset others without experiencing a congruent affective response. Taken together, these findings provide a strong foundation for further research into the links between individual differences in listening styles and empathy.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115754315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}