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Parasitic public memory: #ReclaimTheRainbow and the symbology of conservative victimhood
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M Aubrey Studebaker and Amy Whiteside
Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 18, Issue 1, March 2025, Pages 31–38, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae053
Published: 03 January 2025
... proponents of dominant culture reify their power by constructing memory narratives that co-opt rhetorics of victimhood and recast marginalized populations as their oppressors, a phenomenon we term “parasitic public memory.” Through analyzing the #ReclaimTheRainbow movement in which Christian conservatives...
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Reverse symbolic action and quiescence: a critical exploration of anti-abortion rhetoric and movement activation
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Mackenzie O Marquess
Communication Theory, Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2025, Pages 118–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtae022
Published: 12 November 2024
... the possibility that extreme anti-abortion rhetoric caused the pro-life movement to fall into dormancy while causing the pro-choice movement to activate. Drawing on social judgment theory and politics as symbolic action, reverse symbolic action has three dimensions: policy action producing quiescence, rhetorical...
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Invoking ethnic identity in the service of right-wing rhetoric: an analysis of 2022 Latina republican candidates in South Texas
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Raquel Moreira and Arthur D Soto-Vásquez
Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 17, Issue 4, December 2024, Pages 285–292, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae037
Published: 09 October 2024
... with the Republican Party has been of interest since the 2020 presidential election, especially in South Texas. This article presents a rhetorical criticism of three Republican Latina candidates for Congress in the 2022 midterms. Utilizing Latine rhetorical criticism of their campaign ads, we identify the strategic...
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Marcha das Vadias: performing disidentification in transnational protests
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Carly Leilani Fabian
Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2024, Pages 95–102, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae013
Published: 10 June 2024
...Carly Leilani Fabian When the narratives that initially form a movement’s rhetoric do not suit the needs of subsequent protestors, disidentification can function as a response that produces a coalitional subjectivity ( Morrissey, 2013 ). Coalitional subjectivities position subjects who...
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To Know Me Is to Exonerate Me: Appeals to Character in Defense of the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study
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John Lynch
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 49, Issue 5, October 2024, Pages 499–511, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhae024
Published: 27 May 2024
... paternalism rhetoric Saul Krugman The Willowbrook Hepatitis Study is one of the best-known examples of unethical medical research. Susan Reverby describes it as part of the trinity of American research stories that led to human research regulation and the birth of contemporary bioethics...
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Are Zhuzi contentious? A rhetorical investigation of speech/word radicals in ancient Chinese texts
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Jiao Liu and Ke Li
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 38, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages 1591–1603, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad051
Published: 05 October 2023
...Jiao Liu; Ke Li Table 1. Framework of contention in communication. Rhetorical modes Ways of enacting ideas or behaviors Contentious or not Invitational Offering Noncontentious Advisory Proposing Noncontentious Benevolent Explaining Neutral Conversion Altering...
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Counting Security in the Vernacular: Quantification Rhetoric in “Everyday” (In)Security Discourse
Lee Jarvis
International Political Sociology, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2023, olad013, https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olad013
Published: 14 August 2023
...Lee Jarvis vernacular security everyday security critical security studies discourse quantification rhetoric numbers Corresponding author e-mail: [email protected] 03 02 2023 © The Author(s) (2023). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association...
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‘Not Time to Make a Change’? Reviewing the Rhetoric of Law Reform
James Lee
Current Legal Problems, Volume 76, Issue 1, 2023, Pages 129–172, https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cuad004
Published: 05 June 2023
...’. 12 Since ‘all the law’ would be slightly more than can be embraced in a single article, I must be selective, and so in sections 4 and 5, I give particular attention to trusts and the law of wills as illustrations of the rhetorical challenges. 13 Having shown the importance of rhetoric, I...
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Challenges and opportunities for defining the role and value of meat for our global society and economy
Rod Polkinghorne and others
Animal Frontiers, Volume 13, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 75–81, https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfad002
Published: 15 April 2023
... ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. anti-meat rhetoric collaboration industry engagement research engagement Implications There is currently a significant need...
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The most hated tree in America: negative difference, the White imaginary, and the Bradford pear
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Ryan Neville-Shepard and Casey Ryan Kelly
Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 166–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcad005
Published: 07 April 2023
... inferential racist language that attacks difference, expressing fears of racial impurity, and calling for exterminating the Other. anti-Blackness environmental rhetoric post-racialism race White supremacy The West Coast of the US was responsible for the bulk of the country’s pear production until fire...
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Combinatorics, Composition, Copia: Mersenne’s Permutations as Rhetoric of Abundance
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André Redwood
Music Theory Spectrum, Volume 45, Issue 1, Spring 2023, Pages 71–88, https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac026
Published: 07 February 2023
... faith in the ineffable plenitude of God’s creation. Yet, Mersenne also intended the permutations and the combinatorial procedures that generate them to serve as the foundation of a pedagogy of compositional invention. That pedagogy, this article proposes, is tacitly informed by the rhetorical notion...
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Enthymising
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Maksymilian Del Mar
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, Spring 2023, Pages 202–220, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqac027
Published: 29 October 2022
...Maksymilian Del Mar rhetoric enthymeme narrative emotion audience oratory legal reasoning The history of rhetoric matters critically to theorising legal reasoning. This has been known for some time, even if it is still neglected by mainstream theories of legal reasoning. But a recent crop...
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Echoes behaving badly? Rhetorical and acoustic experimentalism in the echo fantasias of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and his contemporaries
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Mark Ferraguto
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Early Music, Volume 50, Issue 3, August 2022, Pages 297–314, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caac028
Published: 22 October 2022
...Mark Ferraguto One of d4’s most unusual aspects is its use of anadiplosis, a ‘doubling back’ defined in rhetoric as ‘the duplication of a word occurring at the end of a preceding verse and at the beginning of the next. For example: “sequitur pulcherrimus Astur,/ Astur equo fidens...
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Crime And Punishment: Public Opinion And Political Law-And-Order Rhetoric In Europe 1996–2019
Susanne Karstedt and Rebecca Endtricht
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 62, Issue 5, September 2022, Pages 1116–1135, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac040
Published: 16 September 2022
... advantage of the high salience of the issues of crime and justice? Or did politicians set the agenda with law-and-order rhetoric and the offer of easy solutions to these problems, thus aiming at ‘governing through crime’, as Jonathan Simon put it? Or did both parties to the democratic political process...
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Mapping Interventions: Toward a Decolonial and Indigenous Praxis across Communication Subfields
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Tiara R Na’puti and Joëlle M Cruz
Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 1–20, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab064
Published: 29 November 2021
.../standard_publication_model ) Abstract Engaging organizational communication and rhetorical studies subfields, we develop a case for decolonial and Indigenous approaches that offer texture and depth. In the process, we flip the existing topographic “map” of the field and shift Eurocentric canons...
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Enshrining Terror for the Nation: Affect and Nationalism at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
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Tim Gruenewald
Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 14, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 604–621, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab052
Published: 15 September 2021
...Tim Gruenewald Abstract The National September 11 Memorial and Museum (9/11 MM) employs affective rhetoric to enshrine the trauma of September 11 in support of U.S. nationalism. Applying Brian Massumi's understanding of affect as intensity, I examine how the site's rhetoric amplifies affect...
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Rethinking the Rhetorical Epistemics of Gaslighting
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Clint G Graves and Leland G Spencer
Communication Theory, Volume 32, Issue 1, February 2022, Pages 48–67, https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtab013
Published: 27 August 2021
... communication dynamic in which one interlocutor attempts to destabilize another’s sense of reality. In this article, we advance a model of gaslighting based in an epistemic rhetoric perspective. Our model directs attention to the rhetorics used to justify competing knowledge claims, as opposed to philosophical...
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Expert ethos and the strength of networks: negotiations of credibility in mediated debate on COVID-19
Jens E Kjeldsen and others
Health Promotion International, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2022, daab095, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daab095
Published: 02 August 2021
... Respons Analyse for the Norwegian Directorate of Health. The survey from March 30 had 739 respondents), in the spring of 2020. Trust, then, as we approach it, is a relatively stable precondition, which forms the starting point and mental framework for any rhetorical communication. Thus, when we use...
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Theorizing Chemical Rhetoric: Toward an Articulation of Chemistry as a Public Vocabulary
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Robin E Jensen
Journal of Communication, Volume 71, Issue 3, June 2021, Pages 431–453, https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab011
Published: 24 May 2021
... for centuries. This essay argues that chemical terms, tropes, figures, appeals, and narratives serve as powerful rhetorical features of public discourse. From affinities and atoms to dark matter and radioactivity, chemical rhetoric fulfills a central organizing function in contemporary society and shapes how...
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Measuring and Evaluating the Visual Complexity Of Chinese Ink Paintings
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Zhen-Bao Fan and others
The Computer Journal, Volume 65, Issue 8, August 2022, Pages 1964–1976, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxab035
Published: 19 May 2021
...’ attention to a greater extent earlier white space. White space, as a figure of visual rhetoric [ 17–19 ], however, deviates from the most widely accepted convention. It can be more than space of unfilled-in [ 20 ] but supposed to indicate the semantic meaning of a vast, formless and ever-changing natural...
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