The recurring appeals of the Mormon rhetorical vision

This study investigates the recurring appeals of the Mormon rhetorical vision, appeals that help account for the growth of the Mormon Church which is now eight million; Bormann's Fantasy Theme Analysis, a communication model that explains how small groups develop imaginative ideas and concepts called fantasy themes that form rhetorical visions and chain out to society, is the overall methodology used in investigating the Mormon vision, while Fisher's narrative fidelity and coherence, and Rieke and Sillars' American Value Systems are used as procedural enhancements to Bormann's model; This rhetorical vision displays fidelity with three American value systems while partaking in four others. Fisher's narrative fidelity means that the rhetorical visions are "faithful" to stories the audience already believes. The study identifies the physicality value as another source of the visions appeal and it also displays narrative coherence because the Mormon vision "holds together" internally as a viable story.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication Studies

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1992

Author dc:creator

• Challis, Arthur Thomas

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/227

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1226