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African American Rhetoric Of Greeting During Mckinley’S 1896 Front Porch Campaign, William D. Harpine
African American Rhetoric Of Greeting During Mckinley’S 1896 Front Porch Campaign, William D. Harpine
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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.
Universalism In Policy Debate: Utilitarianism, Stock Issues, And The Rhetorical Audience, William D. Harpine
Universalism In Policy Debate: Utilitarianism, Stock Issues, And The Rhetorical Audience, William D. Harpine
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Analyzing How Rhetoric Is Epistemic: A Reply To Fuller, William D. Harpine
Analyzing How Rhetoric Is Epistemic: A Reply To Fuller, William D. Harpine
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Genung’S Theory Of Persuasion: A Literary Theory Of Oratory Of Late Nineteenth-Century America, William D. Harpine
Genung’S Theory Of Persuasion: A Literary Theory Of Oratory Of Late Nineteenth-Century America, William D. Harpine
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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.
What Do You Mean, Rhetoric Is Epistemic?, William D. Harpine
What Do You Mean, Rhetoric Is Epistemic?, William D. Harpine
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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.
We Want Yer, Mckinley’: Epideictic Rhetoric In Songs From The 1896 Presidential Campaign, William D. Harpine
We Want Yer, Mckinley’: Epideictic Rhetoric In Songs From The 1896 Presidential Campaign, William D. Harpine
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Bryan’S ‘A Cross Of Gold’: The Rhetoric Of Polarization At The 1896 Democratic Convention, William D. Harpine
Bryan’S ‘A Cross Of Gold’: The Rhetoric Of Polarization At The 1896 Democratic Convention, William D. Harpine
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Epideictic And Ethos In The Amarna Letters: The Withholding Of Argument, William D. Harpine
Epideictic And Ethos In The Amarna Letters: The Withholding Of Argument, William D. Harpine
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