Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres

ISBN-13: 9781643362854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 362 str.

Gerard A. Hauser; Phaedra C. Pezzullo

Spis treści

• Chapter 1 The Public Voice of Vernacular Rhetoric Rhetoric's Place in the Athenian DemocracyCivil Society and the Appearance of Public OpinionVox Populi and the Problem of "Public" OpinionRhetorical Antecedents of PublicsConclusion
• Chapter 2 Discourse, Rhetorical Discourse, and the Public SphereThe Bourgeois Public SphereRhetorical Counterassumptions to Habermas's ModelConclusion
• Chapter 3 Civic Conversation and the Reticulate Public SphereOutline of a Rhetorical Model of the Public SpherePublic Conversation and the Associations of theReticulate Public SphereCommon Meaning and the Associative Networks ofthe Reticulate Public SphereThe Ground of Civil Judgment Rhetorical Criteria of the Public SphereConclusion
• Chapter 4 Reading Public Opinion from Vernacular Rhetoric Witnessing Vernacular Discourse: An Outsider's ExperienceVernacular Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Locus of PublicOpinionPublic Opinion and ReasoningPublic Opinion and Common UnderstandingThe Dialogical Process of Opinion FormationConclusion
• Chapter 5 Narrative, Cultural Memory, and the Appropriation of Historicity Rhetoric and the Active SocietyMemories of Hope: PolandMemories of Despair: YugoslaviaContrasting Stories, Contrasting PossibilitiesConclusion: The Narrative Bridge from Tradition toHistoricity
• Chapter 6 Reshaping Publics and Public Spheres: The Meese Commission's Report on PornographyA Call to Reshape the Literary Public SphereThe Final Report: Version IThe Final Report: Version IIReconstructing the Public SphereConclusion
• Chapter 7 Technologizing Public Opinion: Opinion Polls, the Iranian Hostages, and the Presidential ElectionThe Problem of Public OpinionTransforming Victims into HeroesPublic Opinion as Technological ConstraintConclusion
• Chapter 8 Democracy's Narrative: Living in Roosevelt's AmericaThe Election of 1940The People's Letters and Public Opinion"Public" Opinion on the Third TermDefining AmericaConclusion: Forgotten Publics in a Land of Strangers
• Chapter 9 The Rhetoric of Publicness: Theory and MethodTheoretical ConsiderationsMethodological Considerations
• Appendix I: Chronology of Hostage Developments
• Appendix II: Chronology of the 1980 CampaignNotesBibliographyIndex