{"title":"Narrative in Martin Luther King's I've been to the mountaintop","authors":"Thomas Rosteck","doi":"10.1080/10417949209372884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949209372884","url":null,"abstract":"Martin Luther King's I've Been to the Mountaintop oration is examined as a significant instance of the rhetorical use of existing narrative as an inventional and argumentative strategy. The narrative functions both as a redescription of situation and as an example for political action. These functions correspond to formal characteristics of narrative form, and suggest that such narratives simultaneously display elements of both metaphor and illustrative parallel.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127878417","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":"Political vertigo in Dead Poets Society","authors":"D. Payne","doi":"10.1080/10417949209372883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949209372883","url":null,"abstract":"Dead Poets Society offers a critical opportunity to investigate linkages between political expression and dramatic form. The film text combines comic and tragic structures in unusual ways, reflecting a contemporary political orientation toward institutions and social conformity. The analysis suggests that comedic “vertigo” is central to Dead Poets Society and other texts, and that this mechanism is a form of political expression and therapy for some contemporary American audiences.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123007751","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 good person behaving well: Rethinking the rhetoric of virtue","authors":"Kari Whittenberger‐Keith","doi":"10.1080/10417949209372885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949209372885","url":null,"abstract":"Important historical changes in public virtue are chronicled in a seemingly unlikely source, etiquette manuals. A careful consideration of these texts reveals that public virtue has been historically exteriorized, from an original sense of foundational values, to an intermediary sense of public appearances, to a postmodern condition in which public virtue is merely another “means of persuasion.” I describe the historically grounded meanings of “virtue” that appear in etiquette manuals, and then explore the implications of this historical reconfiguration of virtue for public discourse.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121142601","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":"Jim Wright's resignation speech: De‐legitimization or redemption?","authors":"C. Collins, J. Clark","doi":"10.1080/10417949209372888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949209372888","url":null,"abstract":"Tarnished political figures de‐legitimize the roles, values, and political spectacle they represent. Jim Wright's resignation as Speaker of the House serves as a case study in de‐legitimizing rhetoric which postures the form of Burkean redemption. Wright's attempt at a rhetoric of propitiation fails when he refuses to admit blame, seeking instead to be the “blameless” goat of redemption for a polluted Congressional scene.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132676731","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":"Coping with defeat rhetorically: Sherman's march through Georgia","authors":"Cal M. Logue","doi":"10.1080/10417949209372887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949209372887","url":null,"abstract":"When William T. Sherman marched from Resaca to Savannah, the battle and home fronts in Georgia merged into a scene of death, destruction, sacrifice, and criticism. To accommodate their losses, Confederates first expressed disillusionment, clashed along socioeconomic lines, and converted to more powerful initiatives. Then, in the heat of battle, they forged an ideology of ascension from which they formulated oratorical arguments deployed during Reconstruction, the New South, and twentieth century for self‐interests. By gilding defeat, they rendered the intolerable politically and economically correct. By disinfecting their war stories, southerners pardoned themselves.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129036974","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":"General Douglas Macarthur's oratory on behalf of Inchon: Discourse that altered the course of history","authors":"R. Carpenter","doi":"10.1080/10417949209372882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949209372882","url":null,"abstract":"General Douglas MacArthur's acclaim for oratory stems from epideictic or occasional addresses which articulate well audiences’ extant attitudes. Yet his more influential discourse was deliberative, during the Korean War, persuading opposing Joint Chiefs of Staff to approve the Marines’ landing at Inchon. Explication of this event suggests how oratorical prowess affected a pivotal military decision more than professional estimates offered in those deliberations.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132246649","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":"State‐communication apprehension and uncertainty in continuing initial interactions","authors":"Lawrence R. Wheeless, A. Williamson","doi":"10.1080/10417949209372872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949209372872","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports a study of state‐communication apprehension and uncertainty as they relate to each other and as they relate to information‐seeking and confirmation of relational predictions in initial, dyadic interactions. A two‐group design with an additional control group was used to test for the effects of pretests and tests given midway through initial dyadic interactions (two, 8‐minute interaction periods). Given that these effects were not obtained, the research hypotheses were supported. Results indicated that state‐communication apprehension was related to uncertainty and both of these phenomena were related to information seeking and confirmation of positive relational predictions. Also, both apprehension and uncertainty were found to decrease over the two time periods spent in continuing initial interactions.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115150774","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":"Synecdoche and audience in see it now's “the case of Milo Radulovich”","authors":"Thomas Rosteck","doi":"10.1080/10417949209372868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949209372868","url":null,"abstract":"Since its telecast on Edward R. Murrow's documentary series See It Now, “The Case of Milo Radulovich” has been seen as “symbolizing” the problems of McCarthyism. This essay questions “how” the text “comes to stand” for the victims of McCarthyism and argues that the appeal of the program may be traced to the set of representations at its center. This essay suggests one way a documentary text finds persuasive appeal via the particular case.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126472509","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}
R. Meyers, D. Brashers, Christine M. Beck, Stacia Wert‐Gray
{"title":"A citation analysis of organizational communication research","authors":"R. Meyers, D. Brashers, Christine M. Beck, Stacia Wert‐Gray","doi":"10.1080/10417949209372869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949209372869","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a descriptive analysis of publication rates and citation patterns in organizational communication articles published in fifteen communication journals between the years 1979–1989. Results revealed that (1) approximately six percent of all articles addressed organizational communication, (2) the three journals that published the greatest proportion of organizational communication articles were Management Communication Quarterly, The Southern Communication Journal, and Human Communiction Research, and (3) sources most frequently cited are from three disciplines—communication, management, and psychology. Implications of these findings for the practice of organizational communication research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114439265","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 “look” and language of clash: Visual structuring of argument in the 1988 Bush‐Dukakis debates","authors":"John T. Morello","doi":"10.1080/10417949209372866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417949209372866","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the visual structuring of the 1988 debates between George Bush and Michael Dukakis, focusing on moments of clash where the advocates engaged in statements of attack and defense. Three conclusions are advanced: televised shot sequences employed to visualize clash in the debates (1) misrepresented the incidence of verbal clash, (2) gave preference to ad hominem attacks as a verbal cue for a cut to a reaction shot, and (3) offered opportunities for nonverbal refutation of opposing arguments. Visual messages in these “cuts” to reaction shots altered the verbal content of the speaking candidate. In short, what viewers saw was punctuated by changes in camera shots that transmuted the process of argument in the debate.","PeriodicalId":212800,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129042983","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}