Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation / / ed. by Lisa Villadsen, Christian Kock.

Citizenship has long been a central topic among educators, philosophers, and political theorists. Using the phrase “rhetorical citizenship” as a unifying perspective, Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation aims to develop an understanding of citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, arguing th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 1 illustration
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: citizenship as a rhetorical practice
  • Section I: Tracing rhetorical citizenship as concept and practice
  • 1 Deliberative Democracy: Mapping Out the Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory
  • 2 The Making of Truth in Debate: The Case of (and a Case for) the Early Sophists
  • 3 The Search for “Real” Democracy: Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation in France and the United States, 1870–1940
  • Section II: Public deliberation as rhetorical practice
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Considering Norms of Communicative Behavior
  • 4 The Respect Fallacy: Limits of Respect in Public Dialogue
  • 5 Dialectical Citizenship? Some Thoughts on the Role of Pragmatics in the Analysis of Public Debate
  • 6 Provocative Style: The Gaarder Debate Example
  • 7 Virtual Deliberations: Talking Politics Online in Hungary
  • Part 2 Critiques of “Elite” Discourse
  • 8 Dis-playing Democracy: The Rhetoric of Duplicity
  • 9 Rhetoric of War, Rhetoric of Gender
  • 10 Speaking of Terror: Norms of Rhetorical Citizenship in Danish Public Discourse
  • 11 “This May Be the Law, but Should It Be?”: Tony Blair’s Rhetoric of Exception
  • Part 3 Rhetorical Citizenship Across Communicative Settings
  • 12 I Agree, but . . . : Finding Alternatives to Controversial Projects Through Public Deliberation
  • 13 Deliberation as Behavior in Public
  • 14 Homing in on the Arguments: The Rhetorical Construction of Subject Positions in Debates on the Danish Real Estate Market
  • 15 Danish Revue: Satire as Rhetorical Citizenship
  • Section III: Toward better deliberative practices
  • 16 Presidential Primary Debate as a Genre of Journalistic Discourse: How Can We Put Debate into the Debates?
  • 17 A Tool for Rhetorical Citizenship: Generalizing the Status System
  • 18 Interpretive Debates Revisited
  • About the Contributors
  • Index