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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"rhetorical history"”.
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When cultures collide : a rhetorical history of the Makah whaling controversy.
… This decision caused one of the most potent rhetorical battles of the decade. The Makah's main opponents in the controversy were animal rights organizations such as the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Progressive Animal Welfare Society, and the Sea Defense Alliance. This thesis …
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Money for nothing: a rhetorical history of the universal basic income
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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A rhetorical history of race relations in the early Pentecostal movement, 1906-1916.
… Christianity and unique for its time. This rhetorical history documents how this counter-cultural racial integration was nurtured rhetorically in the early revival and how the message of interracial unity was soon eclipsed by other priorities. I argue that the transcendent, spiritualized …
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Traumatic Formations and Psychiatric Codifications: A Rhetorical History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
… Formations and Psychiatric Codifications: A Rhetorical History of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder challenges this view by examining the rhetorical processes by which PTSD and its predecessor diagnoses were codified. Using critical techniques taken from rhetorical studies, Science and …
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Siete Lenguas: The Rhetorical History of Dolores Huerta and the Rise of Chicana Rhetoric
This dissertation is first an historical trajectory of Chicana Rhetoric in the American polis and then a perspectival analysis of three key texts from Chicana labor rights activist and vice president of the United Farm Workers Union Dolores Huerta. The trajectory establishes an efficacious legacy …
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Debts past due: a rhetorical history of Black reparations advocacy in the United States
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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The reconstitutive power of Wovoka's prophetic discourse: A rhetorical history of the 1890 Ghost Dance Prophet
… religion among the indigenous people. Wovoka's rhetorical history illustrates the interplay of first persona, substantive message, and second persona as a means of transforming an audience. In addition, the parallels between the Paiute Prophet's discourse and the prophets that preceded him, both …
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Seeing systems: A rhetorical history of visual media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939-1969
… and technology. This dissertation offers a rhetorical history of media research at MIT from World War II into the Cold War—a time during which MIT became one of the preeminent techno-scientific institutions in the world. I argue that as MIT shifted from functioning as an industrial ancillary …
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Standards, Shame, and Outrage: A Rhetorical History of Sexual Assault and Policy Change in the US Military
… My research questions were twofold: how do rhetorical processes construct social realities around sexual assault and how have these processes impacted policy change? These questions seek to further examine the rhetorical nature of publics and public spheres, specifically those surrounding …
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Women speaking in and for institutions: a rhetorical history of the politics of respectability in Black Chicago, 1919 - 1939
… legislation, and protection. Through a rhetorical analysis of institutional documents from two labor unions and two Black churches that span across 20 years - including the boiling over of racial tensions, height of Black entrepreneurship, and the Great Depression - I demonstrate how …
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Becoming la raza: Chican@ counterpublicity and rhetorics of the Viet Nam War
This study supplies a rhetorical history of Chican@ movement discourse(s) positing racial otherness through the language of “la raza” in the United States during the Viet Nam War. Racial discourse(s) advancing notions of La Raza were circulated, amplified, stretched, and even resisted among Chican@ …
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Kairotic Eclipses in Vaccine Legislation: How Overlapping Spheres of Discourse Create Ideal Public Policy Climates
… and private health practices though a rhetorical history of Hepatitis B (HBV), a disease affecting the liver. I do so to demonstrate how the rhetorical climate surrounding vaccination matters to the success of vaccination technology, regardless of the medical legitimacy of any …
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'A City of Brick': Visual Rhetoric in the Roman Principate
… Altar of Augustan Peace, and how traditional rhetorical techniques are at work on the altar. Chapter Three focuses on the political myth as represented on coins from the Senatorial and Imperial mints, the most widely seen rhetorical media in the Principate, arguing that as the Principate …
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A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley
… Huxley and Darwin as "bridge figures" in the history of rhetoric, science and ecological thought, I examine how their rhetorical theories and strategies (as discursive practices, performances and techniques) form a genealogy that bridges rhetorical and ecological theories and practices. My …
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Demonstrating Scientific Taste: Aesthetic Judgment, Scientific Ethos, and Nineteenth-Century American Science
… scientists, through the lens of their formal rhetorical training as students in American universities, this dissertation investigates how aesthetic judgment is enacted in scientific writing and explores the rhetorical history of the terms "simplicity," "brevity," "imagination," and "taste" and …
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Archiving the sacred: Austin Phelps and the adaptation of nineteenth-century rhetorical education at Andover Theological Seminary
… project expands the canon of nineteenth-century rhetorical history by providing a broadened understanding of how professional rhetoric was taught, learned, and practiced in nineteenth-century America. To do so, I examine the rhetorical theory, writing pedagogy, and pulpit oratory of Austin …
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Set in Stone: Rhetorical Performances in Virginia Tech's April 16th Memorial
This dissertation traces the rhetorical history of Virginia Tech's April 16th Memorial from its earliest appearance immediately following the April 16, 2007 shootings up to its present iteration as a permanent memorial on Virginia Tech's campus. Specifically, this study reveals how the April 16th …
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The Rhetoric* of Writing Assessment
… Writing Assessment uses strategic variations of rhetorical theory to reimagine writing assessment's complicated disciplinary past and rethink its foundational concepts through its multifaceted rhetorical situatedness. Although scholars such as Bob Broad, Brian Huot, Patricia Lynne, Norbert …
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Animal-machine
… world has sparked debate in communication and rhetorical studies about how to best approach a range of non-human entities: animals, plants, objects, machines and more. In Animal-machine, I argue that these categories do not emerge as pre-formed and discrete objects but are co-constituted with …
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Video game rhetoric and materialist contingency: genre, circulation, and narrative
… I argue Dragon Quest provides insights into the rhetorical techniques that comprise video game design. Attending to Dragon Quest as digital rhetoric highlights how rhetorical contingencies shape the invention of, engagement with, and circulation of video games. This rhetorical analysis analyzes …
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