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The rhetoric of exclusion
| dc.creator | Moriarty, Thomas Ashley | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-07T22:37:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-07T22:37:34Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1994 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1994 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1994-THESIS-M854 | |
| dc.description | Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item. | en |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis examines the rhetoric of exclusion as it appeared in the context of the womens suffrage debate, the desegregation movement, and the recent battle over gays in the military. Using Toulmin I s system for modelling arguments, it shows that the rhetoric of exclusion's resistance to the inclusion of women, blacks, and gays into the institutions of mainstream society relies on a remarkably consistent set of appeals and rhetorical strategies. In all three cases, the rhetoric of exclusion aims its appeals at an audience's fears of difference and transformation, and it does so with a small collection of arguments which catalogue what is wrong with the current out-group and predict dire consequences if they are ever let into mainstream society. | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.subject | English. | en |
| dc.subject | Major English. | en |
| dc.title | The rhetoric of exclusion | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | English | en |
| thesis.degree.name | M.A. | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
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