Vernacular Voices : The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres /

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"A foundational text of twenty-first-century rhetorical studies, Vernacular Voices addresses the role of citizen voices in steering a democracy through an examination of the rhetoric of publics. Gerard A. Hauser maintains that the interaction between everyday and official discourse discloses ho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hauser, Gerard A. (Author)
Other Authors: Pezzullo, Phaedra C. (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Caroline : The University of South Carolina Press, [2022]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
Public opinion.
Opinion publique.
Discours politique.
Public Opinion
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Phaedra C. Pezzullo
  • Series editor's preface
  • Preface 2022
  • Introduction : Forgotten publics
  • The public voice of vernacular rhetoric
  • Discourse, rhetorical discourse, and the public sphere
  • Civic conversation and the reticulate public sphere
  • Reading public opinion from vernacular rhetoric
  • Narrative, cultural memory, and the appropriation of historicity
  • Reshaping publics and public spheres: the Meese Commission's report on pornography
  • Technologizing public opinion: opinion polls, the Iranian hostages, and the presidential election
  • Democracy's narrative: living in Roosevelt's America
  • The rhetoric of publicness: theory and method
  • Appendix I: Chronology of hostage developments
  • Appendix II: Chronology of the 1980 campaign.

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