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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Rhetorical Agency"”.
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Rhetorical Agency And Survivance: American Indians In College Composition
… have a distinct cultural background related to rhetorical agency and language. Particularly for Indian students who grew up on reservations, the effects of official federal policies regarding the use of English for assimilation remain significant. However, in writing classes, we have an …
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Whose Honey, Whose Hive?: Genre and Rhetorical Agency in the U.S. Colony Collapse Disorder
… theory, and agricultural rhetorics, I offer a rhetorical analysis and genre analysis of the narratives surrounding CCD from select popular press newspaper articles, documentaries, nonfiction works, and personal interviews with beekeepers that cover the span of the early years of the U.S. crisis …
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Netizenship Politics: Youth, Anti-Americanism, and Rhetorical Agency in South Korea's 2002 Candlelight Vigils
"This study offers a rhetorical analysis of the 2002 South Korean Candlelight Vigils [ch'otpul siwi] with a focus on the role of the Internet in public opinion building, the rise in anti-American sentiment in South Korea, and rhetorical agency residing in the collective. In 2002, two South Korean …
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The Divine Double Voice: How Female Christian Rhetors Found Rhetorical Agency through the Voice of God
… Through the voice of God, these women found agency for their own beliefs and messages, and utilized a variety of rhetorical maneuvers in order to share their messages and quietly subvert patriarchal constructs within the church. These women found agency for their feminist messages within …
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"Don't Try and Play Me Out!": The Performances and Possibilities of Digital Black Womanhood
… women’s discourse and literacy practices in rhetorical analyses of online posts, surveys, and qualitative interviews of Black women who use the sites studied. Each case works to explain how Black women’s offline discourse and literacy practices are used on social media, what kinds of …
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"The Terror Within:" Neoliberalism and the Rhetoric of the Obesity Crisis
… worker productivity. Drawing on research from rhetorical studies, transnational feminism, and disability studies that highlight the way that discourses surrounding the body are used to limit access to citizenship and rhetorical agency, this research analyzes the material and discursive effects …
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Responsive Classroom Ecologies: Supporting Student Inquiry And Rhetorical Awareness In College Writing Courses
… transfer, classroom ecologies, and student agency to set the stage for a discussion of several pedagogical strategies implemented to support students' development of inquiry and responsible rhetorical agency. Data analysis highlights three major arguments: first, that alternative pedagogical …
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Ironic Distancing: Injecting Bigotry into the American Mainstream
… of the trope of irony used to deny a speaker's agency and/or responsibility for a statement by claiming, often post-hoc, that the ostensible meaning of their statement has been misinterpreted and was, in fact, meant to be interpreted ironically. The strategic ambiguity of this ironic polysemy …
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Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
… discourse in published writing, girls exercised rhetorical agency through the art, editorials, essays, and creative writing that they produced for high school literary magazines, yearbooks, and newspapers. In the process of praising themselves, girls of this period altered views of young women …
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Deliberation, Dissent, and Advocacy: A Rhetorical Study of Teachers' Lived Experiences with Education Reform
… the strategies through which teachers gain rhetorical agency within the discursive space of reform. To do so, I apply an analytical frame of public sphere theory and employ a mixed-methods approach that combines archival methods and fieldwork (e.g. participant observation and interviews). …
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Listening to the Lomax archive: the sonic rhetorics of American vernacular music in the 1930s
… what is known about rhythmic practice in the rhetorical tradition. Responding to emergent conversations at the intersection of rhetorical and sound studies, this work engages with questions about sound and music’s rhetorical roles in myth making, racial formation, cultural eloquence, …
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Feminism from the farm: rural and farm women’s authorship and the future of rural America, 1920-1929
… as rural and farm women. Turning to women’s rhetorical practices as they manifested in two major print and public speaking contexts — The Farmer’s Wife magazine and the first national conference of rural and farm women — this study considers how women’s interactions in those spaces enabled …