Pub Date : 1987-09-01DOI: 10.1080/10417948709372693
Kristine M. Bartanen
This essay offers a framework for analysis of judicial dissent and examines Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's dissenting opinion in the 1983 abortion decision against that backdrop. In addition to highlighting O'Connor's distinctive defense of personal credibility, emphasis on legal logic, and appeal for reversal of roe V. wade, the study reveals how effectively the value appeals characteristic of judicial rhetoric—democracy, justice, and logic—serve the motives for judicial dissent.
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Pub Date : 1987-09-01DOI: 10.1080/10417948709372692
Craig A. Smith
This essay examines the rhetorical themes through which President Ronald Reagan has, relative to his recent predecessors, unified the nation behind his leadership. Drawing upon familiar myths, symbols, values, and beliefs Mr. Reagan adroitly depicts a community of extraordinarily ordinary Americans who can accomplish anything because of their faith in a proud heritage of self‐evident morality. The interweaving of these themes is so skillful that any criticism of the President or his policies is initially construed as an attack upon the very meaning of America.
{"title":"MisteReagan's Neighborhood: Rhetoric and National Unity.","authors":"Craig A. Smith","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372692","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the rhetorical themes through which President Ronald Reagan has, relative to his recent predecessors, unified the nation behind his leadership. Drawing upon familiar myths, symbols, values, and beliefs Mr. Reagan adroitly depicts a community of extraordinarily ordinary Americans who can accomplish anything because of their faith in a proud heritage of self‐evident morality. The interweaving of these themes is so skillful that any criticism of the President or his policies is initially construed as an attack upon the very meaning of America.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114569468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1987-03-01DOI: 10.1080/10417948709372686
J. J. Makay, Alberto González
This essay extends the literature on the rhetoric of music, specifically the rhetorical potential of Bob Dylan's songs. The paper focuses on Dylan's biographical songs, a genre largely overlooked by scholars. In the lyrics of these songs Dylan promotes the myth of the outlaw‐hero and offers powerful cultural criticism by appealing to three ethical traits: resistance to corrupt authority, integrity of the self, and simplicity. We contend that Dylan's use of the myth of the outlaw hero builds his own ethos as an outsider loyal to American cultural systems who successfully criticizes our culture. We show how Dylan's use of biographical rhetoric defines a social context with appeal to the vast audience attracted to his work.
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Pub Date : 1987-03-01DOI: 10.1080/10417948709372688
V. Wheeless
This investigation found that trust and receptivity in a physician and the female patient's communication apprehension were significant predictors of the patient's: (1) likelihood of discussing health care with gynecologists, (2) knowledge of gynecological health needs, and (3) feelings toward the gynecologist at the time of examination. Patient's communication apprehension contributed the most to likelihood to discuss, while feelings toward the physician at the time of examination and trust in physician contributed the most to knowledge about health needs. Receptivity of physician was not a significant contributor for any of the variables. The physician's gender did not produce significant differences, but the more often one sees the gynecologist, the greater one's knowledge and the more positive one's feeling toward the physician at the time of examination are.
{"title":"Female patient and physician communication and discussion of gynecological health care issues","authors":"V. Wheeless","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372688","url":null,"abstract":"This investigation found that trust and receptivity in a physician and the female patient's communication apprehension were significant predictors of the patient's: (1) likelihood of discussing health care with gynecologists, (2) knowledge of gynecological health needs, and (3) feelings toward the gynecologist at the time of examination. Patient's communication apprehension contributed the most to likelihood to discuss, while feelings toward the physician at the time of examination and trust in physician contributed the most to knowledge about health needs. Receptivity of physician was not a significant contributor for any of the variables. The physician's gender did not produce significant differences, but the more often one sees the gynecologist, the greater one's knowledge and the more positive one's feeling toward the physician at the time of examination are.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126755091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1987-03-01DOI: 10.1080/10417948709372684
Steven R. Goldzwig
This essay identifies a rhetoric of public theology, which is defined as theologically‐based discourse intentionally targeted for mass audiences in an attempt to influence religious and secular publics on public policy. The essay argues that a rhetoric of public theology differs markedly from that of civil religion and displays three characteristics: expedient simplicity, existential content, and action rituals. These discursive features help to account for increased church‐state tensions in contemporary society.
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Pub Date : 1987-03-01DOI: 10.1080/10417948709372683
W. Owen
Relational communication scholars have assumed that participant discourse formulates human relationships, but little attention has been given to the mutual interaction of conversational structures and relational pragmatics. This study presents a model of relational influence attempts (RIAs) in dating and marital couples’ conversations, giving particular insight into the role tacit relational knowledge plays in shaping talk. RIAs are conversational influence attempts (CIAs) of relational import. While RIAs often are organized around requests and other request‐relevant discourse found in CIAs (e.g., pre‐requests, hints, and prompts), these influence attempts pertain to relational assertions. The assertive adjacency pair, declaration of love—reciprocation of love, formulates the prototypical speech act analyzed in this study. Variations in this conventional pair are given to support the claim that knowledge of relational pragmatics is required to make sense of conversational influence attempts.
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Pub Date : 1987-03-01DOI: 10.1080/10417948709372685
D. Fry, Virginia H. Fry
This article explores the visual structuring of Music Television videos and compares them to those of television dramas and commercials. The primary focus of the analysis is on the montage structures which clearly appear in the three television genres. An analysis of two types of montage structures shows Music Television to be a hybrid form of television programming displaying visual characteristics of both commercials and drama. This amalgam of different characteristics gives Music Television its distinctive look and its power as a promotional tool for the marketing of record albums and recording artists.
{"title":"Some structural characteristics of music television videos","authors":"D. Fry, Virginia H. Fry","doi":"10.1080/10417948709372685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948709372685","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the visual structuring of Music Television videos and compares them to those of television dramas and commercials. The primary focus of the analysis is on the montage structures which clearly appear in the three television genres. An analysis of two types of montage structures shows Music Television to be a hybrid form of television programming displaying visual characteristics of both commercials and drama. This amalgam of different characteristics gives Music Television its distinctive look and its power as a promotional tool for the marketing of record albums and recording artists.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130662419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1986-12-30DOI: 10.1080/10417948609372678
A. Rubin
Age and family control influences on television viewing were examined for a sample of 162 individually interviewed children, ages five to twelve. Two‐way ANOVA and MCA found: (1) no differences for viewing levels; (2) cartoon and children's program preferences, television affinity, and realism related negatively to age; (3) adventure! drama and comedy preferences related positively to age; (4) cartoon preferences related negatively to family control for the two youngest groups; and (5) comedy and children's program preferences and television realism related positively to family control for the youngest group. Results reflect age and family relationship patterns in and between preoperational and concrete operational stages of development.
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Pub Date : 1986-12-30DOI: 10.1080/10417948609372680
James H. Tolhuizen
This study investigated the changes in perceived communication in evolving friendships. Cluster analysis of items used to measure eight communication dimensions yielded five interpretable clusters named breadth, depth, ease, flexibility, and evaluation. As a set, these clusters differed significantly over eight levels of friendship evolution. The breadth, ease, flexibility, and evaluation clusters increased during development and decreased during deterioration. Changes in depth of communication sugggested that after an initial decline, people in deteriorating relationships may increase the intimacy of their communication. Furthermore, a comparison of cluster means across the evolutionary life‐cycle revealed that deterioration is not a “mirror image” reversal of development. Finally, two significant discriminant functions, “familiarity in communication” and “personalness of communication,” separated the friendship evolution groups.
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Pub Date : 1986-12-30DOI: 10.1080/10417948609372679
M. Seeger
Organizational communication scholars have traditionally focused on internal communication among employees. A significant aspect of organizational communication, however, also occurs in the statements made by top management. Chrysler's Lee Iacocca epitomizes this management rhetoric. The author uses the management roles proposed by Mintzberg to analyze Iacocca's rhetoric during the crisis at Chrysler.
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