By analyzing public accounts of the experiences of surrogates and intended parents, this article aims at identifying popular American discourses on surrogacy, which remains a contested assisted reproduction technology. Focusing on first-person narratives, I look at the strategies of rationalization employed by people entering commercial surrogacy contracts, particularly in relation to the monetary exchange. I argue that even though the ethics of financial compensation is not questioned in most narratives by surrogates and intended mothers, the normalizing discourse on American surrogacy requires the issue of money to be downplayed – instead surrogacy is presented as an altruistic “gift of life.”
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This article examines the manifestation of persuasion in political campaign advertising and the role of persuasion in the public’s consciousness. It is set in the context of the Reagan administration’s approach towards the Soviet Union and based on and clarified with illustrations drawn from the “Bear” commercial. The article applies Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca’s concepts of presence and communion to identify the means by which the public was provoked to give its assent to the president’s ideas and decide to act, and interprets the mechanisms behind the commercial in the light of Eric M. Eisenberg’s notion of strategic ambiguity.
本文考察了说服在政治竞选广告中的表现,以及说服在公众意识中的作用。它以里根政府对苏联的态度为背景,以“熊”广告中的插图为基础并加以澄清。本文运用Chaim Perelman和Lucie olbrecht - tyteca的存在和交流的概念来确定公众被激起同意总统的想法并决定采取行动的手段,并根据Eric M. Eisenberg的战略模糊性概念来解释商业广告背后的机制。
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The article examines the compatibility of David L. Wolper’s adaptation of North and South (Book I and Book II) with Reaganite ideology. It discusses the modifications of the original text (characters and events) to demonstrate how a Civil War novel has been transformed into a mirror image of Reaganite America. Wolper’s TV adaptation forms part of Ronald Reagan’s governing narrative of building one and strong America. The positive investment in the past – sanitizing or eliminating socially divisive issues, such as slavery and promoting core values such as family – helps to reach the national consensus on history that everybody (Southerners and Northerners) can identify with. Wrapped in the 1980s aesthetics of opulence, Wolper’s adaptation conveys a message of America’s greatness, attainable under the Lincoln-Reagan rallying cry “we must all stand united as Americans.”
{"title":"ABC’s North and South (Book I and Book II) Miniseries as an Expression of Reaganite Ideology","authors":"Joanna Perzyna","doi":"10.7311/pjas.10/2016.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7311/pjas.10/2016.06","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the compatibility of David L. Wolper’s adaptation of North and South (Book I and Book II) with Reaganite ideology. It discusses the modifications of the original text (characters and events) to demonstrate how a Civil War novel has been transformed into a mirror image of Reaganite America. Wolper’s TV adaptation forms part of Ronald Reagan’s governing narrative of building one and strong America. The positive investment in the past – sanitizing or eliminating socially divisive issues, such as slavery and promoting core values such as family – helps to reach the national consensus on history that everybody (Southerners and Northerners) can identify with. Wrapped in the 1980s aesthetics of opulence, Wolper’s adaptation conveys a message of America’s greatness, attainable under the Lincoln-Reagan rallying cry “we must all stand united as Americans.”","PeriodicalId":384144,"journal":{"name":"Polish Journal for American Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116984496","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}
The article examines the style of Samuel Blair, a revival preacher of the Great Awakening who has often been omitted in the studies on the colonial pulpit tradition. Two texts by Blair, a sermon (A Perswasive to Repentance, 1743) and a revival account (A Short and Faithful Narrative, 1744) are studied rhetorically and presented as representative of the “rhetoric of the revival,” a particular mode of preaching in which the speaker employs a wide array of rhetorical patterns, biblical innuendos and communicative strategies aimed at eliciting emotional responses.
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