Browsing by Subject "Rhetoric"
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(2015-12-02)This dissertation investigates the rhetoric of preaching. The project entails understanding and overcoming pejorative perspectives of rhetoric and limited perspectives of preaching that imbue public discourse, scholarship ...
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(2018-08-02)This dissertation examines three case studies that draw on the queer potential of performances of gender and athleticism that challenge the gender binary in sport. For generations, sport has served as a social institution ...
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The Rhetorical Crisis of the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Forgotten Narratives and Political Directions (2018-07-30)The accidental opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, dismantled the political narratives of the East and the West and opened up a rhetorical arena for political narrators like the East German citizen movements, ...
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(2017-05-03)This thesis uses former literature on orality, literacy, pluralism, and power structures and applies their theoretical framework in order to provide insight into the rhetorical impacts of social media. Specifically, Facebook ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Focusing on new-journalistic nonfiction novels by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and John Hersey, this dissertation conceptualizes the discursive practices of news-storytelling as a necessary matrix of storytelling and ...
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(2021-12-08)This dissertation examines how contemporary political television programs model American citizenship through the portrayal of political leaders and how these models of citizenship constitute American national identity. To ...
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(2012-10-19)Many Supreme Court followers contended that Judge John Roberts entered his Supreme Court confirmation hearings as a "stealth candidate" who lacked a paper trail the Judiciary Committee could vet to discern the interpretive ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)Synthesizing the components of good teaching at the university level has been a problem for educators. Although some commentators offer insight into particular skills that characterize effective teachers, no one has presented ...
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(2011-08-08)This project investigates how rhetorical texts influenced the witch trials that were held in Salem in 1691-1692, how rhetoric shaped the response to this event, and how rhetorical artifacts in the twentieth and twenty first ...
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(2011-08-08)Christianity is not anti-intellectual; however, there is a distinct quality of anti-intellectualism in the rhetoric of the Christian Right. This thesis explores the ways in which rhetors in the Christian Right encourage ...
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(2009-05-15)This thesis explores and explicates the relationship between rhetoric and hermeneutics in two separate contexts: Jewish and Christian hermeneutic traditions, and secular philosophical hermeneutics. The impetus for this ...