Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship

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Christian Kock, Lisa Villadsen
Amsterdam University Press, 2014 - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - 349 pages
Intro -- Introduction Rhetorical Citizenship as a Conceptual Frame: What We Talk About When WeTalk About Rhetorical Citizenship -- Part I Rhetorical Criticism from the Viewpoint of Rhetorical Citizenship -- Is Rhetorical Criticism Subversive of Democracy? -- On Rhetorical Ethos and Personal Deeds: A 2011 Spanish Public Controversy -- The Hunt for Promises in Danish Political Debate -- "Keep[ing] Profits at a Reasonably Low Rate": Invoking American Civil Religion in FDR's Rhetoric of Tax Equity and Citizenship -- Yarn Bombing: Claiming Rhetorical Citizenship in Public Spaces -- On Trees: Protest between the Symbolic and the Material -- "Cicero Would Love This Show": The Celebration of Rhetoric and Citizenship in The West Wing -- Part II Studies in the Practice and Cultivation of Rhetorical Citizenship -- Rhetorical Citizenship in Public Meetings: The Character of Religious Expression in American Discourse -- Voice, Listening, and Telling Stories: The Communicative Construction of Rhetorical Citizenship in Small Groups -- Argumentative Literacy and Rhetorical Citizenship: The Case of Genetically Modified Food in the Institutional Setting of a Greek Primary School -- "People Power" in Philippine Presidential Rhetoric: (Re)Framing Democratic Participation in Post-authoritarian Regimes -- On Being a Simple Judge: Exploring Rhetorical Citizenship in Aristotelian and Homeric Rhetorics -- The Rhetorical Citizen: Enacting Agency -- Part III Crossing Borders: Disciplinary, Political and Otherwise -- Online Civic Participation, Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical Citizenship -- "A Stowaway of Emigration": Polarizationin Hafid Bouazza's Work -- Extending Civic Rhetoric: Valuing Rhetorical Dimensions of Global Citizenship in Civic Education

About the author (2014)

Christian Kock is professor of rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen. Lisa Villadsen is associate professor of rhetoric, head of studies, and head of the rhetoric section at the University of Copenhagen.

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