The Prettier Doll: Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)
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Strains of social-political thought that inform so much of contemporary work within media, cultural, and rhetorical studies especially, we should ask what remains invisible inside such visions of public participation in an actually existing, if always effervescent, civil society and multi-institutional order. Perhaps these repressed elements can be clarified by bringing alternative perspectives to bear on the norms of ordinary democratic culture and the rhetorical interactions that constitute it.
Similarly, they endorsed multiculturalism but not necessarily at the price of repudiating Western culture’s (Eurocentric?) commitments to universal human rights. e. Liberals were at a loss to explain the persistence through the 1990s of race-related problems that had resisted their best efforts at ameliorating them. Some problems were largely confined to the inner city, but others knew no boundaries: the persistence, for example, of academic achievement gaps across socioeconomic classes and age.
Values.3 To Burke, the event may be reductive, but its rhetorical scope is telematic. Murray Edelman would add that the language of public proceedings is generally hortatory; “[t]he conclusions [of a hortatory style], being promises or threats, amount to appeals for public support.”4 The promises and threats so characteristic of a hortatory style suggest that a public proceeding always is about more than its explicit subject matter; it is also about constructing public support and understanding.
Cruz’s epilogue to explore the individual, educational, and ultimately social-political aspects of positive race relations as they ought to be pursued by students, educational professionals, parents, and even state-level governmental agencies. Before we consider the dramatic form—one that I will identify technically as a romance—let us look to the other face of the drama, its emotional demeanor. Structures of Feeling The phrase “structures of feeling” is identified most closely with British.
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