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William D Harpine

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We Want Yer, Mckinley’: Epideictic Rhetoric In Songs From The 1896 Presidential Campaign, William D. Harpine Aug 2015

We Want Yer, Mckinley’: Epideictic Rhetoric In Songs From The 1896 Presidential Campaign, William D. Harpine

William D Harpine

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Epideictic And Ethos In The Amarna Letters: The Withholding Of Argument, William D. Harpine Aug 2015

Epideictic And Ethos In The Amarna Letters: The Withholding Of Argument, William D. Harpine

William D Harpine

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Is Modernism Really Modern? Uncovering A Fallacy In Postmodernism, William Harpine Aug 2015

Is Modernism Really Modern? Uncovering A Fallacy In Postmodernism, William Harpine

William D Harpine

Some postmodernists criticize the view that the logics of Western thought can be employed universally. In doing so, they assume without adequate proof that different human societies have greatly different rationalities and employ completely different logics. This essay argues that, on the contrary, widely different cultures often share noteworthy similarities in rationality.


Analyzing How Rhetoric Is Epistemic: A Reply To Fuller, William Harpine Aug 2015

Analyzing How Rhetoric Is Epistemic: A Reply To Fuller, William Harpine

William D Harpine

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African American Rhetoric Of Greeting During Mckinley’S 1896 Front Porch Campaign, William Harpine Aug 2015

African American Rhetoric Of Greeting During Mckinley’S 1896 Front Porch Campaign, William Harpine

William D Harpine

African American speakers who participated in William McKinley’s 1896 Front Porch campaign events used epideictic rhetoric to address the issues of racial equality. They praised McKinley, but presented few arguments on policy matters. This rhetorical strategy helped them to advocate policies in a manner that would superficially appear to be ceremonial more than deliberative. Paradoxically, in doing so, the speakers advocated their views to ameliorate the injustices of the Jim Crow era, while adapting to the campaign’s rituals.


The Theoretical Bases Of Stock Issues, William Harpine Aug 2015

The Theoretical Bases Of Stock Issues, William Harpine

William D Harpine

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Stock Issues And Theories Of Ethics, William Harpine Aug 2015

Stock Issues And Theories Of Ethics, William Harpine

William D Harpine

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The Appeal To Tradition: Cultural Evolution And Logical Soundness, William Harpine Aug 2015

The Appeal To Tradition: Cultural Evolution And Logical Soundness, William Harpine

William D Harpine

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Bryan’S ‘A Cross Of Gold’: The Rhetoric Of Polarization At The 1896 Democratic Convention, William Harpine Aug 2015

Bryan’S ‘A Cross Of Gold’: The Rhetoric Of Polarization At The 1896 Democratic Convention, William Harpine

William D Harpine

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Playing To The Press In Mckinley’S Front Porch Campaign: The Early Weeks Of A Nineteenth-Century Pseudo-Event, William Harpine Aug 2015

Playing To The Press In Mckinley’S Front Porch Campaign: The Early Weeks Of A Nineteenth-Century Pseudo-Event, William Harpine

William D Harpine

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The Argument Of Extreme Variation Does Not Prove Field Dependence, William Harpine Aug 2015

The Argument Of Extreme Variation Does Not Prove Field Dependence, William Harpine

William D Harpine

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Stock Issues In Aristotle's Rhetoric, William Harpine Aug 2015

Stock Issues In Aristotle's Rhetoric, William Harpine

William D Harpine

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Universalism In Policy Debate: Utilitarianism, Stock Issues, And The Rhetorical Audience, William D. Harpine Aug 2015

Universalism In Policy Debate: Utilitarianism, Stock Issues, And The Rhetorical Audience, William D. Harpine

William D Harpine

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What Do You Mean, Rhetoric Is Epistemic?, William D. Harpine Aug 2015

What Do You Mean, Rhetoric Is Epistemic?, William D. Harpine

William D Harpine

The thesis that rhetoric is epistemic has gained widespread acceptance and has influenced rhetorical theory. The thesis suggests that argumentative justification in rhetorical contexts is fundamentally epistemic. Unfortunately, however, much of the literature developing the thesis has employed vague or inconsistent definitions of key terms, resulting in theoretical errors and needless complications. This essay clarifies the definitions of “rhetoric,” “knowledge,” and “certainty,” showing how the notion that rhetoric is epistemic might be developed in a clearer and more useful way.


Can Rhetoric And Dialectic Serve The Purposes Of Logic?, William Harpine Aug 2015

Can Rhetoric And Dialectic Serve The Purposes Of Logic?, William Harpine

William D Harpine

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Genung’S Theory Of Persuasion: A Literary Theory Of Oratory Of Late Nineteenth-Century America, William Harpine Aug 2015

Genung’S Theory Of Persuasion: A Literary Theory Of Oratory Of Late Nineteenth-Century America, William Harpine

William D Harpine

John Genung’s late nineteenth century rhetoric textbooks, although founded on an eighteenth century model of Scottish composition, present an original conception of oratory. Genung’s theory breaks free of the classical models and lays out the path to be followed during the development of speech studies among American rhetoricians of the early twentieth century.