From Forfeited Agency to Communities of Hope: Reinventing Ethos through Narratives of Remembering and Forgetting

If an offender's credibility is the first and last victim of an offense, by what communication processes may credibility be recovered by the offender, and with what responsibility from the victim to the process? What responsibilities do other stakeholders have to the offender in defense of the common narrative? Based on phenomenological reflection for stakeholder ethics that requires a quadraic dialogue framed in the topics of harms and rights, but also the reluctant testimony of benefits and responsibilities credited to the offense, each stakeholder in the event becomes culpable to it, responsibility not necessarily for the prologue to violence, but for the project of restoring civic and corporate credibility through a dialogue of remembering and forgetting, and the epilogue of hope for a future of history by reconciliation discourse from transactional acts of pardon and expectation to transformational acts of love and forgiveness.

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication and Rhetorical Studies

Year dc:date.available

2009

Author dc:creator

• Janus, Linda

Contributors dc:contributor

• Janie Harden Fritz
• Ronald Arnett
• Kathleen Glenister Roberts

• nemesis ethic
• reconciliation discourse
• retribalization through forgiveness
• stakeholder ethics
• victim responsibility

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/698

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1714