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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Walter Fisher"”.
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READING RHETORIC THROUGH TRAUMA: CHARLOTTE DELBO'S AUSCHWITZ AND AFTER
… a coherent narrative, as set forth by Walter Fisher in his narrative paradigm. I conclude that <italic>Auschwitz and After</italic> is significant in that it enacts the trauma it seeks to transmit, a necessary approach in the face of the loss of reason and language engendered by the …
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Learning to be Free: The Print Media of Cotonou, Benin
… Each chapter engages the narrative paradigm of Walter Fisher to further illustrate how freedom is defined.</p><p> Additionally, to offer a micro look at the print media, the author visited one newspaper, Le Matin, for a three-and-a-half-week period, to observe how journalists performed their …
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The New Welfare Queen: A Narrative Analysis of Mitt Romney's 47% Speech
… narrative about entitlement spending. By using Walter Fisher's (1984) Narrative Paradigm as a lens of critical analysis, I argue that Romney's appeal to a particular narrative was a persuasive decision based on his limited audience. By appealing to the welfare queen narrative, however, Romney …
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Author and Believer: Exploring the Mystery of Faith in the Works of Flannery O’Connor, Marilynne Robinson, and Alice McDermott
… of religious belief. Communication theorist Walter Fisher posited that as much as humans think of themselves as rational beings, in reality we are more persuaded by, and communicate more often through, stories (Fisher, Human Communication 24). In a matter such as religious belief, which so …
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Advertising as Epideictic Rhetoric and Its Implications for Ethical Communication
In the ancient sense, epideictic rhetoric was considered as a simple opposition to pragmatic discourse, which predominantly was involved with public business. Public business refers to the matters of the polis and the political setting. On the other hand, epideictic does not address to the …