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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"constitutive rhetoric"”.
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PEPE’S POWER: INTERNET MEMES, CONSTITUTIVE RHETORIC, AND POLITICAL COMMUNITIES
… thesis will examine the memetic definition and rhetorical transformations of Pepe the Frog – an internet meme that has undergone radical symbolic growth since its inception in the late 2000s. These transformations successfully constituted ideologies in several digital political communities. In …
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Constitutive rhetoric reexamined: the case of Scottish nationalist discourse
Since the critical turn in rhetoric, much has been said about the ways in which identification is accomplished. Not least among those studies concerned with identity, Maurice Charland's constitutive rhetoric has been widely influential in the field of communication. Charland's notion of the origins …
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Making Fenians: The Transnational Constitutive Rhetoric of Revolutionary Irish Nationalism, 1858-1876
<p>This dissertation traces the constitutive rhetorical strategies of revolutionary Irish nationalists operating transnationally from 1858-1876. Collectively known as the Fenians, they consisted of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in the United Kingdom and the Fenian Brotherhood in North America. …
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Achieving an Anabaptist Vision: The Constitutive Rhetoric of Goshen Circle Mennonite Leaders
… of an Anabaptist subjectivity was a rhetorical achievement and analyzes how several texts attempted rhetorical interventions to transform the already-given historical situations faced by twentieth-century Mennonites. I substantiate this claim by utilizing Maurice Charland's (1987) …
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Post-Truth Gaming: Fictional Pasts and Constitutive Rhetoric in Video Game Nostalgia
… with the past, nostalgia has become a dominant rhetorical strategy. Nostalgia is especially prevalent in the medium of video games, where a steady stream of remakes, remasters, and rereleases attempts to repurpose the past for audiences new and old. By utilizing Will and Krista Kurlinkus’s …
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Ask a librarian: The profession, professional identities, and constitutive rhetoric of librarians
… Specifically, this research analyzed librarians’ rhetoric about their work. Interviews with public and academic librarians were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using modified grounded theory approaches combined with rhetorical analysis. Librarians’ rhetoric revealed insecurity about the …
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Constituting the monster inside: Ideological effects of post-apocalyptic depictions in The Walking Dead
Working from Charland's (1987) description of constitutive rhetoric, this thesis is concerned what the popular zombie apocalypse television series The Walking Dead (TWD) has to say regarding survival behavior in a post-apocalyptic world. TWD's plot focuses primarily on the relationships between …
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Putting Women Back on Top?: (Re)constituting Power and Audience in The Vagina Monologues
… study utilizes an eclectic approach—comprised of constitutive rhetoric, second persona, third persona, and bell hooks' rhetorical options—to determine if the play's content encourages the dialogue Ensler desires.
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SOUTH ASIAN AND (UNDOCUMENTED) LATINO/A IMMIGRANT BLOGGERS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THEIR ENGAGEMENT WITH IMMIGRATION DISCOURSES
… South Asian immigrants. Drawing upon a theory of constitutive rhetoric, I look at ways that members of these two groups are interpellated as subjects within their blogging communities. Moreover, I examine how the collective subject negotiates various identifications through a three-part diasporic …
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Re-conceptualizing southern rhetoric: a meta-critical perspective
The study of southern rhetoric and public address remains important to the study of American rhetoric and public address. However, recent years indicate a decline in the amount and variety of scholarship in this area of study. This project provides a meta-critical analysis of the history of …
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A Taste of Rhetoric: Moves & Practices in the Decolonization & Restoration of Historic Foodways
<p>Language and rhetoric are foundational influences on cultural practices, including culinary ones. The subdiscipline of food rhetoric studies communication about the processes of eating, cooking, transporting, and trading food, especially within the cultures of historically marginalized peoples. …
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An American rhetoric of globalism: peace through international economic cooperation in the World War II era
"A rhetoric of globalism compelled Americans during the World War II era to imagine a postwar peace that would depend on individual economic security and global economic interdependence. In a time of radical contingency, globalism emerged as an inventive alternative both to the predominant …
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What West Virginia? Conflict over West Virginia's State Identity: A Constitutive Approach to Activism and Public Relations
This rhetorical analysis of a coal advocacy and a coal-critical environmentalist organization examines how each group constitutes different West Virginian identities that accord with their organizational mission. Based on the constitutive concepts advanced by Edwin Black, Maurice Charland, and …