The Rhetoric Of Official Apologies

Author : Lisa S. Villadsen,Jason A. Edwards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793621818

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The Rhetoric of Official Apologies by Lisa S. Villadsen,Jason A. Edwards Pdf

The Rhetoric of Official Apologies: Critical Essays focuses on the many challenges associated with performing a speech act on behalf of a collective and the concomitant issues of rhetorically tackling the multiple political, social, and philosophical issues at stake when a collective issues an official apology to a group of victims. Contributors address questions of whether collective remorse is possible or credible, how official apologies can be evaluated, who can issue apologies on behalf of whom, and whether there are certain kinds of wrongdoing that simply can’t be addressed in the form of an official apology. Collectively, the book speaks to the relevance of conceptualizing official apologies more broadly as serving multiple rhetorical purposes that span ceremonial and political genres and represent a potentially powerful form of collective self-reflection necessary for political and social advancement.

Author : Associate Professor of Political Science Melissa Nobles,Melissa Nobles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0511378920

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The Politics of Official Apologies by Associate Professor of Political Science Melissa Nobles,Melissa Nobles Pdf

Author : Jane Yamazaki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415649377

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Japanese Apologies for World War II by Jane Yamazaki Pdf

Focusing on a detailed look at Japanese apologies for the Second World War from 1984 to 1995, this book explores the issues of motive, what makes an apology a 'success', interactive/dialogical dimensions, international pressures, and role of apology in a changing international moral climate.

Author : Jenny Rice,Chelsea Graham,Eric Detweiler
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781602355026

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Rhetorics Change / Rhetoric’s Change by Jenny Rice,Chelsea Graham,Eric Detweiler Pdf

Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric’s Change features selected essays, multimedia texts, and audio pieces from the 2016 Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference, which spotlighted the theme “Rhetoric and Change.” The pieces are broadly focused around eight different lines of thought: Aural Rhetorics; Rhetoric and Science; Embodiment; Digital Rhetorics; Languages and Publics; Apologia, Revolution, Reflection; and Intersectionality, Interdisciplinarity, and the Future of Feminist Rhetoric. Simultaneously familiar yet new, the value of this collection can be found in the range of its modes and voices.

Author : Hilde Van Belle,Kris Rutten,Paul Gillaerts,Dorien Van De Mieroop,Baldwin Van Gorp
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270481

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Let's talk politics by Hilde Van Belle,Kris Rutten,Paul Gillaerts,Dorien Van De Mieroop,Baldwin Van Gorp Pdf

In this volume on political argumentation, the study of argument takes place within a rhetorical framework. As such, it is a contribution to the study of argumentation-in-context with an explicit rhetorical approach. Rather than focusing on the poor quality of political participation and political understanding by citizens, this volume explores how the study of rhetoric, both as an academic discipline and as a political practice, stands in a unique position to critically engage with a ‘contextualized’ understanding of politics and civic engagement. Many contributions in this volume confront classical rhetorical concepts and theories with current political developments such as globalization and multiculturalism and the emergence of new democracies. Others focus explicitly on deliberative rhetoric in the political realm, or undertake a critical analysis of political texts and public events in order to explore what this can imply for the development of a ‘critical’ citizenship.

Author : Barbara Segaert
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401209533

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Public Apology between Ritual and Regret. by Barbara Segaert Pdf

Since the 1990s we witness a rise in public apologies. Are we living in the ‘Age of Apology’? Interesting research questions can be raised about the opportunity, the form, the meaning, the effectiveness and the ethical implications of public apologies. Are they not merely a clever and easy device to escape real and tangible responsibility for mistakes or wrong done? Are they not at risk to become well-rehearsed rituals that claim to express regret but, in fact, avoid doing so? In a joint interdisciplinary effort, the contributors to this book, combining findings from their specific fields of research (legal, religious, political, linguistic, marketing and communication studies), attempt to articulate this tension between ritual and sincere regret, between the discourse and the content of apologies, between excuses that pretend and regret that seeks reconciliation.

Author : Mihaela Mihai,Mathias Thaler
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349465828

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On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies by Mihaela Mihai,Mathias Thaler Pdf

Examining the complex nature of state apologies for past injustices, this probes the various functions they fulfil within contemporary democracies. Cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research and insightful philosophical analyses are supplemented by real-life case studies, providing a normative and balanced account of states saying 'sorry'.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004688520

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Islands of Extreme Exclusion by Anonim Pdf

The island has historically played a special role in the cultural imagination – sometimes as a place of promise of tranquillity; at other times the remoteness has seemed attractive for more sinister reasons. Using islands for extreme exclusion has a long history and remains important for understanding the complexities of inclusive education. This volume presents new case studies of island exclusion of prisoners, people with disability, and refugees in the Global North and South. It also offers reflections on practices of re-inclusion and the larger issues of inclusive education.

Author : Christian Kock
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031188022

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Rhetoricians on Argumentation by Christian Kock Pdf

This book, a rich collection authored by rhetorical scholars, unpacks how rhetoric contributes to argumentation studies. It begins with an introduction that identifies defining features of a rhetorical approach to argumentation which has several corollaries, including the special status of argumentation about action, the condition of uncertainty and the necessity of securing adherence from an audience. Chapters explore topics such as the properties of argumentation in the realm of rhetoric, the use of presentational devices, the role of rhetoric in the evolving formation of public morality, conditions for democratic argumentation, argument pedagogy, rhetorical insights into science communication, and other features within the realm of rhetorical argumentation. This book is relevant to students and researchers in linguistics, rhetoric, philosophy, argumentation studies, and communication studies. Previously published in Argumentation Volume 34, issue 3, September 2020

Author : Jeanne Fahnestock,Randy Allen Harris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000573374

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion by Jeanne Fahnestock,Randy Allen Harris Pdf

This handbook provides a wide-ranging, authoritative, and cutting-edge overview of language and persuasion. Featuring a range of international contributors, the handbook outlines the basic materials of linguistic persuasion – sound, words, syntax, and discourse – and the rhetorical basics that they enable, such as appeals, argument schemes, arrangement strategies, and accommodation devices. After a comprehensive introduction that brings together the elements of linguistics and the vectors of rhetoric, the handbook is divided into six parts. Part I covers the basic rhetorical appeals to character, the emotions, argument schemes, and types of issues that constitute persuasion. Part II covers the enduring effects of persuasive language, from humor to polarization, while a special group of chapters in Part III examines figures of speech and their rhetorical uses. In Part IV, contributors focus on different fields and genres of argument as entry points for research into conventions of arguing. Part V examines the evolutionary and developmental roots of persuasive language, and Part VI highlights new computational methods of language analysis. This handbook is essential reading for those researching and studying persuasive language in the fields of linguistics, rhetoric, argumentation, communication, discourse studies, political science, psychology, digital studies, mass media, and journalism.

Author : Bradford Vivian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190678364

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Commonplace Witnessing by Bradford Vivian Pdf

Commonplace Witnessing examines how citizens, politicians, and civic institutions have adopted idioms of witnessing in recent decades to serve a variety of social, political, and moral ends. The book encourages us to continue expanding and diversifying our normative assumptions about which historical subjects bear witness and how they do so. Commonplace Witnessing presupposes that witnessing in modern public culture is a broad and inclusive rhetorical act; that many different types of historical subjects now think and speak of themselves as witnesses; and that the rhetoric of witnessing can be mundane, formulaic, or popular instead of rare and refined. This study builds upon previous literary, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and theological studies of its subject matter in order to analyze witnessing, instead, as a commonplace form of communication and as a prevalent mode of influence regarding the putative realities and lessons of historical injustice or tragedy. It thus weighs both the uses and disadvantages of witnessing as an ordinary feature of modern public life.

Author : Ronald C. Arnett,Patricia Arneson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781611477085

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Philosophy of Communication Ethics by Ronald C. Arnett,Patricia Arneson Pdf

Philosophy of Communication Ethics is a unique and timely contribution to the study of communication ethics. This series of essays articulates unequivocally the intimate connection between philosophy of communication and communication ethics. This scholarly volume assumes that there is a multiplicity of communication ethics. What distinguishes one communication ethic from another is the philosophy of communication in which a particular ethic is grounded. Philosophy of communication is the core ingredient for understanding the importance of and the difference between and among communication ethics. The position assumed by this collection is consistent with Alasdair MacIntyre’s insights on ethics. In A Short History of Ethics, he begins with one principal assertion—philosophy is subversive. If one cannot think philosophically, one cannot question taken-for-granted assumptions. In the case of communication ethics, to fail to think philosophically is to miss the bias, prejudice, and assumptions that constitute a given communication ethic.

Author : James D. Fernández
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Authors, Spanish
ISBN : 0822312549

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Apology to Apostrophe by James D. Fernández Pdf

Who writes "I"? To whom are autobiographies addressed? What kinds of readers are inscribed in autobiographical narratives? In Apology to Apostrophe, James D. Fernández's offers a lucid and powerful meditation on the nature of autobiographical writing through his investigation of the historical conditions and literary stagings of autobiographical writing in Spain. As Fernández demonstrates, recent developments in critical theory provide new and fruitful approaches to autobiographical works that have long been neglected, misunderstood, or, in some cases, virtually unknown. Focusing primarily but not exclusively on nineteenth-century Spain, Fernández exposes a rhetorical tension that often occurs in autobiographical discourse, between self-justification, or "apology," and the transcendence of this worldly impulse, or "apostrophe." This tension, he argues, is of particular interest in the case of Spain, but not peculiar to that nation, and his attention to the theoretical nature of autobiography leads to insightfl considerations of many canonical European autobiographies, including those of Saint Augustine, Rousseau, Saint Teresa, and Cardinal Newman. Considering Spanish autobiography in the context of first-person narrative in Europe and in the terms of current debates on the relationship between writing and selfhood, Apology to Apostrophe marks a significant advance in our historical understanding and critical discussion of the genre. The book will be of great value not only to Hispanists but also to those interested in autobiography and cultural history.

Author : Allison Niebauer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031459986

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The Diocese's Darkest Chapter by Allison Niebauer Pdf

From its quiet inception in 1988, to a hailstorm of statewide and national controversy over thirty years later, this book follows the development of public discourse regarding a clergy sexual abuse scandal in a small Catholic Diocese in Central Pennsylvania. Weaving together the evolving local and national narratives, it offers a striking account of how stakeholder rhetoric has influenced public perception of the Catholic abuse crisis in America, and driven public actions. While the book enriches our local knowledge of the tragic--and ongoing--cultural trauma triggered by the revelation of clergy perpetrated abuse in a small Catholic Diocese, it also makes a critical theoretical contribution to our understanding of the role of rhetoric in publicizing private pain, and galvanizing collectives to take it on as their own. The process of cultural trauma, Niebauer contends, unfolds through rhetorical forms that provide individuals with a constraining and enabling set of rhetorical choices. Highlighting the recurrent rhetorical forms of narration, kategoria, apologia, and topoi, The Diocese's Darkest Chapter brings a new vocabulary and explanatory force to the study of cultural trauma, and the Catholic abuse crisis in America.

Author : Elizabeth A Flynn,Patricia Sotirin,Ann Brady
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780874218794

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Feminist Rhetorical Resilience by Elizabeth A Flynn,Patricia Sotirin,Ann Brady Pdf

Although it is well known in other fields, the concept of “resilience” has not been addressed explicitly by feminist rhetoricians. This collection develops it in readings of rhetorical situations across a range of social contexts and national cultures. Contributors demonstrate that resilience offers an important new conceptual frame for feminist rhetoric, with emphasis on agency, change, and hope in the daily lives of individuals or groups of individuals disempowered by social or material forces. Collectively, these chapters create a robust conception of resilience as a complex rhetorical process, redeeming it from its popular association with individual heroism through an important focus on relationality, community, and an ethics of connection. Resilience, in this volume, is a specifically rhetorical response to complicated forces in individual lives. Through it, Feminist Rhetorical Resilience widens the interpretive space within which rhetoricians can work.