{"title":"Charity for moral reasons? – A defense of the principle of charity in argumentation","authors":"Katharina Stevens","doi":"10.1080/10511431.2021.1897327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2021.1897327","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper I argue for a pro tanto moral duty to be charitable in argument. Further, I argue that the amount of charitable effort required varies depending on the type of dialogue arguers are engaged in. In non-institutionalized contexts, arguers have influence over the type of dialogue that will be adopted. Arguers are therefore responsible with respect to charity on two levels: First, they need to take reasons for charity into account when determining the dialogue-type. Second, they need to invest the amount of effort towards charity required by the dialogue-type.","PeriodicalId":29934,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation and Advocacy","volume":"16 1","pages":"67 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74724752","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":"First Amendment audits: comparing the arguments for the right to record on the street to arguments in case law","authors":"David R. Dewberry","doi":"10.1080/10511431.2021.1897276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2021.1897276","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study compares arguments made on the streets during First Amendment audits (FAAs)—YouTubers who purposefully record the police—to the arguments made in the courts over the right to record. After examining FAAs on YouTube (N = 120), the results reveal that the arguments made on the streets reflect and differ from the arguments in case law. As such, FAAs offer insights and variations upon themes of arguments made in case law about the right to record. The results also show the police’s and public officials’ response to recording in public reflect the inconsistent holdings about the right to record in circuit court opinions. From these findings, I make a number of observations, which suggest that First Amendment auditors are well-versed in the law and can offer contributions to the legal debate over the right to record. I then address the expressive nature of recording by highlighting the auditor’s corporeal body in the situation over the mediated dialogue seen on YouTube. I conclude with the study’s implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research.","PeriodicalId":29934,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation and Advocacy","volume":"3 1","pages":"85 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81407580","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 limitations of the open mind, by jeremy fantl, oxford university press, 2018, pp. 229, $60.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-880795-7","authors":"Kory Riemensperger","doi":"10.1080/10511431.2021.1873480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2021.1873480","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29934,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation and Advocacy","volume":"103 1","pages":"143 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79927168","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":"Rivaling the rhetoric of accountability: dissociation as an advocacy strategy in U.S. higher education policy","authors":"Carolyn D. Commer","doi":"10.1080/10511431.2021.1894392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2021.1894392","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Previous rhetorical scholarship has examined how the rhetoric of accountability has replaced the rhetoric of opportunity for education policy resulting in damaging consequences for public education. Likewise, higher education scholarship has traced the adverse effects of accountability rhetoric to the rise of new assessment metrics and an obsession with quantification in rankings systems that perpetuate inequity in higher education. This article responds to that work by examining a 2006 case when higher education advocates attempted to rival the accountability reforms proposed by the U.S. Department of Education’s Spellings Commission. Offering a rhetorical analysis of more than one hundred responses to the commission, I found that higher education leaders utilized dissociation to offer an “alternative reality” and an alternate set of criteria for evaluating the quality of higher education. The analysis identifies five “dissociative topoi” used to argue that standardized accountability metrics were incompatible with U.S. higher education values. I conclude by suggesting that a dissociation of market accountability from public accountability in education can be a generative heuristic for inventing a rival alternative to current accountability rhetoric.","PeriodicalId":29934,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation and Advocacy","volume":"34 1","pages":"18 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78947278","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":"Examining the normative and persuasive effects of televised U.S. Senate debates","authors":"Josh C. Bramlett","doi":"10.1080/10511431.2021.1894393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2021.1894393","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Televised political debates are largely studied at the presidential level, and there is a paucity of research on debate effects for nonpresidential campaigns. This study explored televised debate effects in the context of the 2018 U.S. midterm Senate elections. A pretest/posttest design tested the normative and persuasive outcomes of debate viewing. Viewing one of the two Senate debates promoted information acquisition, influenced attitudes such as political information efficacy, candidate evaluations, intention to vote for a candidate, and intention to vote in the midterm elections, and had marginal influences on political cynicism and political interest. Presidential debates are not the only debates that matter: nonpresidential televised debates can also persuade voters and foster positive democratic outcomes.","PeriodicalId":29934,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation and Advocacy","volume":"44 1","pages":"37 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77803889","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":"Crafting rhetorical precedent: the paradox of the LGBT asylum seeker in the Matter of Toboso-Alfonso","authors":"Emily S. Kofoed","doi":"10.1080/10511431.2021.1894395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2021.1894395","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The 1990 Board of Immigration Appeals case, the Matter of Toboso-Alfonso, was the first to establish lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as eligible for asylum in the United States upon proof of their “homosexual” identity and of their “well-founded fear of persecution” in another nation. The Toboso-Alfonso case united issues of immigration and sexual orientation, complicating notions of private and public and questioning the necessity of exclusionary immigration policies. I argue that in making Toboso-Alfonso precedent for similar cases, the U.S. ultimately removed a barrier to entry for LGBT migrants but set in place norms that continue to regulate LGBT identity. My findings assert that administrative legal arguments hold the ability to set in place a rhetorical precedent that shapes future performances associated with that precedent—performances of citizenship in particular—by shaping the collective understanding of citizenship (and citizens) in the social imaginary.","PeriodicalId":29934,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation and Advocacy","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78508441","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":"Painting publics: Transnational legal graffiti scenes as spaces for encounter, by Caitlin Frances Bruce","authors":"Victoria J. Gallagher, Max M. Renner","doi":"10.1080/10511431.2020.1858241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2020.1858241","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29934,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation and Advocacy","volume":"60 1","pages":"140 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90589656","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 struggle over black lives matter and all lives matter by amanda nell edgar nd andre E. Johnson, london, lexington books, 2018, pp. 137, $39.99 (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-4985-7207-1","authors":"J. A. McVey","doi":"10.1080/10511431.2020.1845497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2020.1845497","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29934,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation and Advocacy","volume":"12 1","pages":"57 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79525495","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":"Homeless advocacy and the rhetorical construction of the civic home","authors":"Michael K. Middleton","doi":"10.1080/10511431.2020.1845927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2020.1845927","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29934,"journal":{"name":"Argumentation and Advocacy","volume":"45 1","pages":"60 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74012230","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}