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Watanabe, Ken.
The Rhetoric of “Japanese with English Abilities”: Analyzing the Discourse of English Curriculum Reform and Its Problems with the Mext's ‘Action Plan’.
Degree: MS, Curriculum and Instruction, 2013, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151630 
► In this thesis, I would examine the discourse of Japan’s English language education reform for primary and secondary schools through the close reading of the…
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▼ In this thesis, I would examine the discourse of Japan’s English language education reform for primary and secondary schools through the close reading of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology’s (MEXT) “‘Action Plan: Cultivating “Japanese with English Abilities,”’ released in 2003. This document marked a critical touchstone of Japan’s drastic move for English curriculum change by suggesting the shift of national attitude from hesitancy to willingness in the name of change for the needs of language improvement. ‘Action Plan’ served as a master plan for the MEXT by providing the attainment goals, key tasks, and benchmarks that would see fit to achieve in the next five years. It raised the public awareness and stirred up the public debate, for containing challenging proposals such as implementation of standardized English exams (TOEIC and TOEFL) for student assessment and teaching qualification, innovative teaching practices to high schools (i.e., Super English Language-High school[SEL-Hi]), and English as foreign language activities to primary schools.
Specifically, first, I would discuss how Japan’s cultural ambivalence toward English language since the late 19th century sets up the contexts for nation’s historical struggle in upgrading the curriculum that draws the problems reflecting on the MEXT’s recent education policy proposal.
Then, I would examine Action Plan’s attainment goals setting and key agendas highlighted as the MEXT’s main strategy, and analyze its critical issues and problems affecting the needs for both students and teachers. The issues include the mismatched targets, ill-defined goals setting, and benchmarks for academic achievements and project proposals aimed for teacher training and quality instruction (i.e., JET program, and Assistant Language Teachers [ALTs]).
Finally, I would provide the implications for Action Plan’s impact on educational practice by assessing student’s learning achievement and target benchmarks set for students and teachers in the five years after its release. At the end of conclusion, I would offer the list of recommendations for effective administrative policy that could provide better teaching and learning practice in Japanese schools.
Advisors/Committee Members: Slattery , Patrick (advisor), Dixon, Laurie Q. (committee member), Barbour%2C%20Jennifer%20L.%22%29&pagesize-30">
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Barbour,
Jennifer L. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Action Plan; English Language Teaching (ELT); Japanese with English abilities; attainment goals setting; rhetoric; ideology; education reform; internationalization; Japan
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Watanabe, K. (2013). The Rhetoric of “Japanese with English Abilities”: Analyzing the Discourse of English Curriculum Reform and Its Problems with the Mext's ‘Action Plan’. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151630
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Watanabe, Ken. “The Rhetoric of “Japanese with English Abilities”: Analyzing the Discourse of English Curriculum Reform and Its Problems with the Mext's ‘Action Plan’.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151630.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Watanabe, Ken. “The Rhetoric of “Japanese with English Abilities”: Analyzing the Discourse of English Curriculum Reform and Its Problems with the Mext's ‘Action Plan’.” 2013. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Watanabe K. The Rhetoric of “Japanese with English Abilities”: Analyzing the Discourse of English Curriculum Reform and Its Problems with the Mext's ‘Action Plan’. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151630.
Council of Science Editors:
Watanabe K. The Rhetoric of “Japanese with English Abilities”: Analyzing the Discourse of English Curriculum Reform and Its Problems with the Mext's ‘Action Plan’. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151630
Texas A&M University
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Riley, Catherine Lorelei.
The Rhetoric of Homiletics: Preaching, Persuasion, and the Cappadocian Fathers.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2015, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156264
► 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…
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▼ 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 on homiletics, and historical accounts of preaching and preachers. This dissertation focuses on the fourth-century homilies of the Cappadocian Fathers (Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa). The argument is made that preaching is profoundly rhetorical in nature, both practically and theoretically. Three internal chapters support this argument and construct this dissertation as both a rhetorical history and a rhetorical criticism research project.
Chapter One introduces the aims, perspectives, and approaches of the project. Chapter Two presents broad and specific historical context necessary for understanding the rhetorical insights, arguments, and theories advanced in the subsequent chapters. Chapter Three illustrates in fine detail some of the practical implications of acknowledging the rhetorical nature of preaching and preachers. Chapter Four further pursues the theoretical corollary of the argument by establishing the deeply rhetorical origins of the preaching role and form. Chapter Five summarizes the findings, contributions, and limitations of this dissertation and outlines directions for future research. Combined, these chapters comprise a dissertation that is intended to enrich scholars’ and practitioners’ knowledge of the relationship between rhetoric and homiletics.
Advisors/Committee Members: Jones Barbour, Jennifer (advisor), Poirot, Kristan (advisor), Medhurst, Martin (committee member), Schwartz, Daniel (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Rhetoric; Homiletics; Preaching; Persuasion; Cappadocian Fathers
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Riley, C. L. (2015). The Rhetoric of Homiletics: Preaching, Persuasion, and the Cappadocian Fathers. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156264
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Riley, Catherine Lorelei. “The Rhetoric of Homiletics: Preaching, Persuasion, and the Cappadocian Fathers.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156264.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Riley, Catherine Lorelei. “The Rhetoric of Homiletics: Preaching, Persuasion, and the Cappadocian Fathers.” 2015. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Riley CL. The Rhetoric of Homiletics: Preaching, Persuasion, and the Cappadocian Fathers. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156264.
Council of Science Editors:
Riley CL. The Rhetoric of Homiletics: Preaching, Persuasion, and the Cappadocian Fathers. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156264
Texas A&M University
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Rigda, Ryan S.
Rhetoric, Sport, and Queer/Theory: Gender and Athleticism in Queer Sports.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2018, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174096
► 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.…
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▼ 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 that divides athletes based on social
constructions of sex and gender. In doing so, performances of gender in sport have come to be
equated with performances of athleticism. This means that male athletes are expected to perform
male athleticism and female athletes are expected to perform female athleticism. This
dissertation looks for places within sport that represent a queer potential for disruption of the
gender binary. By viewing individual performances of gender and athleticism that do not meet
socially accepted performances of male and female athleticism as unstable differential relations,
we can begin to destabilize the gender binary in sport. Using the case studies of Outsports, the
sport of quidditch, and figure skater Johnny Weir, I argue that although there are places in sport
that function as antagonisms, which have the potential to destabilize the gender binary, to some
extent, they are still bound by normative understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality. Within
each case study, I explore the ways in which gender norms are constantly policed by the sport
community and work to establish difference as a determinate identity, rather than unstable
differential relations.
The work in this dissertation reveals the strength of the hegemonic discourses that
surround sport, particularly in relation to sex, gender, and sexuality. Despite the queer potential
of each case study, the male perspective dominates sports and reinforces the commitment to a
gender binary. The commitment to the gender binary in sport will remain the downfall of most
attempts to queer sport because we are always limited to gendered and sexed categories of male
and female. This is further compounded by the addition of sexuality to athletic identity. As the
narratives used by Outsports show, coming out as a gay athlete is not novel or even disruptive.
The inclusion of gay athletes into mainstream sports confines sexuality to the already gendered
structure of sport. By participating in these hegemonic institutions they are further entrenching
the negative impacts of the system, privileging those LGBTQ athletes who can serve as token
examples of inclusion. With that in mind, I offer three critical implications for this research.
First, I argue that these case studies suggest a move towards a queer understanding of
athleticism. Second, as I have already eluded to, even in moments of queer resistance, sport still
privileges the male identity. Third, I explore the implications of moving sport research into the
field. Using the sport of quidditch, I argue that sport research could benefit from expanding the
scope of the text by examining identity construction at the level of performance.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dubriwny, Tasha (advisor), Poirot, Kristan (committee member), Jones Barbour, Jennifer (committee member), Humphrey, Daniel (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Rhetoric; Sport Communication; Queer Theory
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Rigda, R. S. (2018). Rhetoric, Sport, and Queer/Theory: Gender and Athleticism in Queer Sports. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174096
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rigda, Ryan S. “Rhetoric, Sport, and Queer/Theory: Gender and Athleticism in Queer Sports.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174096.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rigda, Ryan S. “Rhetoric, Sport, and Queer/Theory: Gender and Athleticism in Queer Sports.” 2018. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Rigda RS. Rhetoric, Sport, and Queer/Theory: Gender and Athleticism in Queer Sports. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174096.
Council of Science Editors:
Rigda RS. Rhetoric, Sport, and Queer/Theory: Gender and Athleticism in Queer Sports. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/174096
Texas A&M University
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Creel, Walter Brady.
Rhetoric of Heroic Loyalty: Portrayals of Scottish Jacobites as Rebels, Reprobates and Romantics.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2016, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/158994
► The Scottish Jacobite tradition spans a tumultuous arc of history in which imagery of Highland dress — tartan and kilts — was used to portray…
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▼ The Scottish Jacobite tradition spans a tumultuous arc of history in which imagery of Highland dress — tartan and kilts — was used to portray Highland Scots as enemies of the British state and as heroes of the British Empire. This dissertation analyzes historical artifacts bearing the rhetoric that accompanied the development and evolution of Scottish identity after 1745. By leveraging Kenneth Burke’s theory of dramatism and victimage rituals, this research explains how rhetorical portrayals of Scots in tartan — by anti-Jacobites, by critics of George III and by revisionist romantics — transformed and redeemed Scottish Jacobite identity from defiant “otherness” (dangerous renegades and rebels) to integrated Britishness (loyal subjects and servants of the Empire) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
From the Glorious Revolution of 1688 onward, Jacobites, loyal to the deposed James II and his heirs, endeavored to restore their rightful Stuart kings to the throne. Hanoverians portrayed Jacobites as a dangerous and existential threat to the peace, prosperity and perpetuity of a new British way of life. Jacobites were vilified through propaganda that employed cartoons, caricatures and mocking dialogue to belittle Scots loyal to the Stuarts and to undermine their cause. Scottish tartan and associated garb became a visual marker of these usurpers. When their quest was finally crushed at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, defeat was followed by systematic ethnocide — a legislative mandate from London that the Highland identity be recast in a shape that was unquestionably loyal to the crown, absolutely indifferent toward the Stuarts, and forever incapable of waging war except in the service of the king.
Amid diminishing threat of Jacobite insurrection and Britain’s increasing preoccupation with global preeminence, Highlanders demonstrated their loyalty to Britain through military service to imperial ambitions. Meanwhile, with growing discontent with perceived corruption and cronyism in the court and governments of George III, anti-Jacobite rhetoric became a principal weapon against the king. This shift — adoption of anti-Jacobite rhetoric against targets other than Jacobites — along with the incubation of a new sense of integrated Scottishness, gave birth to a new identity for Highland Scots that largely constitutes present-day perception of Scotland.
Advisors/Committee Members: Mercieca, Jennifer (advisor), Bickham, Troy (advisor), Dorsey, Leroy (committee member), Jones Barbour, Jennifer (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: rhetoric; history; rhetorical history; Burke; victimage; scapegoating; identity; nationalism; Scotland; Jacobites; Jacobitism; kilt; tartan
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Creel, W. B. (2016). Rhetoric of Heroic Loyalty: Portrayals of Scottish Jacobites as Rebels, Reprobates and Romantics. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/158994
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Creel, Walter Brady. “Rhetoric of Heroic Loyalty: Portrayals of Scottish Jacobites as Rebels, Reprobates and Romantics.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/158994.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Creel, Walter Brady. “Rhetoric of Heroic Loyalty: Portrayals of Scottish Jacobites as Rebels, Reprobates and Romantics.” 2016. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Creel WB. Rhetoric of Heroic Loyalty: Portrayals of Scottish Jacobites as Rebels, Reprobates and Romantics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/158994.
Council of Science Editors:
Creel WB. Rhetoric of Heroic Loyalty: Portrayals of Scottish Jacobites as Rebels, Reprobates and Romantics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/158994
Texas A&M University
5.
Davila Rodriguez, Mary Ann.
Visual Representations of Puerto Rico in Destination Marketing Materials.
Degree: MS, Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9948
► In the last thirty years, a large number of studies have researched the destination image that visitors, travel industry representatives, students, and general consumers have…
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▼ In the last thirty years, a large number of studies have researched the destination image that visitors, travel industry representatives, students, and general consumers have of tourist destinations. However, few studies have analyzed the perceptions that local residents have of their own countries as tourist destinations. Local residents can provide valuable information about their countries as tourism destinations and can help tourism marketers determine how to represent local culture in more authentic and sustainable ways. Local residents can also provide valuable information about how to improve tourism development based on their experiences living in the area. Residents can further provide information and services to visitors and are themselves an integral part of tourism at a destination.
This study focused on understanding how destination marketing portrays the people and places of a destination and how residents perceive the visuals used in destination marketing and promotion. Using a visual qualitative approach, the study analyzed the images of recent promotional campaigns employed by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company. The study then interviewed Puerto Rican residents regarding their attitudes toward tourism development in general and toward the specific imagery used in the campaigns. Overall, residents had rather positive opinions of tourism in Puerto Rico. They also had largely positive attitudes toward the visual imagery used to market the destination. However, they felt the portrayal was incomplete and did not reflect the modern way of Puerto Rican daily life.
Advisors/Committee Members: Gretzel, Ulrike (advisor), Jamal, Tazim B. (committee member), Barbour%2C%20Jennifer%22%29&pagesize-30">
Jones-
Barbour,
Jennifer (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: residents; destination image; Puerto Rico; visual communication; sustainable tourism marketing
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Davila Rodriguez, M. A. (2012). Visual Representations of Puerto Rico in Destination Marketing Materials. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9948
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Davila Rodriguez, Mary Ann. “Visual Representations of Puerto Rico in Destination Marketing Materials.” 2012. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9948.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Davila Rodriguez, Mary Ann. “Visual Representations of Puerto Rico in Destination Marketing Materials.” 2012. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Davila Rodriguez MA. Visual Representations of Puerto Rico in Destination Marketing Materials. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9948.
Council of Science Editors:
Davila Rodriguez MA. Visual Representations of Puerto Rico in Destination Marketing Materials. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9948
Texas A&M University
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Wheeler, Ashley N.
Heritage, Power & Cultural Memory in Historic Markers.
Degree: MS, Architecture, 2015, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156139
► This project examines the many facets of historic marker texts produced by the Texas Historical Commission (THC) and their resultant impact on heritage and cultural…
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▼ This project examines the many facets of historic marker texts produced by the
Texas Historical Commission (THC) and their resultant impact on heritage and cultural memory. The analysis consists of two major components. The first component is a content analysis which examines 254 unique historic marker texts from across the state of
Texas. This analysis brings forward the major themes and values presented throughout the historic markers and identifies areas in which bias influenced the creation and resultant interpretation of historic sites. The second component examines three specific historic sites and their related narratives in depth. Utilizing the information gathered in the original content analysis this examination looks into the texts as well as the original histories submitted as part of the historic marker application, culminating in a discussion about the differences between the complete history and the abbreviated history provided on the historic markers. The results of this study provide possible implications for the cultural memory as dictated through historic marker narratives. It attempts to shed light on the power held by the THC in the formation of
Texas heritage by revealing the narrative force and authority of historic markers. Thus, this project argues that cultural heritage is both created and impacted by the many historic markers scattered across the state of
Texas.
Advisors/Committee Members: Warden, Robert (advisor), Jones Barbour, Jennifer (committee member), Tassinary, Louis (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Historic Markers; Cultural Memory; Heritage
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Wheeler, A. N. (2015). Heritage, Power & Cultural Memory in Historic Markers. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156139
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wheeler, Ashley N. “Heritage, Power & Cultural Memory in Historic Markers.” 2015. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156139.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wheeler, Ashley N. “Heritage, Power & Cultural Memory in Historic Markers.” 2015. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Wheeler AN. Heritage, Power & Cultural Memory in Historic Markers. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156139.
Council of Science Editors:
Wheeler AN. Heritage, Power & Cultural Memory in Historic Markers. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156139
Texas A&M University
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Cox, Travis Lloyd.
(Re)conceptualizing Neoliberal Health Discourses as Constitutive Relationships.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2017, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/165771
► Over the last several decades, a neoliberal shift in medical practice from institutional treatment to self-care and prevention has moved many engagements with medical authority…
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▼ Over the last several decades, a neoliberal shift in medical practice from institutional treatment to self-care and prevention has moved many engagements with medical authority figures out of the clinic and into society more broadly. In this context, medical authority has become more complex and difficult to locate as Western medical knowledges and practices have dispersed and intermingled with a range of other health informations and forms of healthcare. As a result, this dissertation uses a constitutive rhetorical approach to locate and examine contemporary forms of medical authority by interrogating the relationship between health subjects and medical authority in neoliberal health discourses. Rather than treat health discourses as fixed asymmetrical texts by which health subjects are either disciplined or empowered, I argue that analyzing these discourses as constitutive relationships by interrogating how health subjects and various forms of medical authority interact with and constitute each other through these texts reveals a more nuanced understanding of how both authority and subjectivity are negotiated and sustained in these contemporary neoliberal sites of engagement.
The three case studies in this dissertation explore diverse ways health subjectivity and medical authority are interactively constituted through various health discourses. In analyzing American Girl’s The Care & Keeping of You advice books, the daytime talk show The Dr. Oz Show, and user engagement with Fitbit activity trackers as constitutive relationships, this dissertation illustrates the emergence of a complex understanding of the relationship between subjectivity and authority. I suggest that a relational approach allows us to move beyond analyzing how health subjects are constituted as they align themselves with health discourses, to examine how health subjects also participate in constituting medical authority as they engage in various forms of interaction. Indeed, reconceptualizing how medical authority emerges from and participates in various interactions with health subjects both expands our understanding of neoliberal health discourses as well as develops a more nuanced approach to critiquing health subject’s sustained engagement with these increasingly ubiquitous texts.
Advisors/Committee Members: Poirot, Kristan (advisor), Dubriwny, Tasha (advisor), Jones Barbour, Jennifer (committee member), Street, Richard (committee member), Pullen, Kirsten (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Neoliberalism; Constitutive Rhetoric; Health Subjectivity; Medical Authority
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Cox, T. L. (2017). (Re)conceptualizing Neoliberal Health Discourses as Constitutive Relationships. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/165771
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cox, Travis Lloyd. “(Re)conceptualizing Neoliberal Health Discourses as Constitutive Relationships.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/165771.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cox, Travis Lloyd. “(Re)conceptualizing Neoliberal Health Discourses as Constitutive Relationships.” 2017. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Cox TL. (Re)conceptualizing Neoliberal Health Discourses as Constitutive Relationships. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/165771.
Council of Science Editors:
Cox TL. (Re)conceptualizing Neoliberal Health Discourses as Constitutive Relationships. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/165771
Texas A&M University
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Bogue, Patty Ann.
We All Can Lead Because We All Can Serve: A Narrative and Visual Analysis of The Big Event at Texas A&M University.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2014, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/154155
► Student Affairs professionals at American colleges and universities actively work to link students with meaningful extracurricular opportunities involving citizenship, leadership, and service ideals. Increasingly, institutions…
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▼ Student Affairs professionals at American colleges and universities actively work to link students with meaningful extracurricular opportunities involving citizenship, leadership, and service ideals. Increasingly, institutions of higher education are providing extracurricular educational opportunities for students to respond and contribute to current community needs and concerns. Because of a decline in national civic engagement with American college students, universities have been called to take action and reverse this trend. Undoubtedly, The Big Event at
Texas A&
M University has created vast opportunities for Aggie students to understand and appreciate the role of community/
university partnerships since its creation in 1982.
This dissertation evaluates The Big Event as a service and leadership organization. Through narrative and the use of storytelling, this study uncovers how
Texas A&
M communicates the perceived importance of service and leadership and then translates this message with a day of service for the Bryan/College Station community. During this project, The Big Event student executives were interviewed regarding their leadership experiences. Research question one asked how the student leaders of The Big Event construct a narrative that emphasizes service and leadership as core values at
Texas A&
M. Coding and analysis of interview data revealed the emergence of four dominant themes. These themes include personal leadership development, individual leadership philosophy, service-mindedness, and the role of
Texas A&
M traditions.
Research question two asked what is the role of narrative and storytelling in the logistics, preparation, and perpetuation of The Big Event for future improvements and expansion. Coding and analysis revealed the emergence of themes related to these three areas. Regarding logistics, the theme reported was the importance of best recruitment practices. Questions regarding preparation revealed the importance of valuable, skill-based experiences and the need for improved internal relations among student executives, committees, and volunteers. Responses relating to perpetuation included the need for articulating the vision for future expansion and strategic campus planning for national and international growth of The Big Event.
In the research, the importance of civic learning was connected to current understandings and research regarding the motivations of students who choose to serve. The findings suggested important theoretical and practical implications. Specifically, narrative theory was employed through qualitative research methods to cultivate understanding and recommendations for future best practices. The application of student development theory ultimately remains a critical component of training students to be engaged citizens who co-create a better tomorrow through unity and collaboration. By investigating The Big Event, a contribution is made to current and future scholarship regarding civic engagement and service-learning in American higher education.
Advisors/Committee Members: Conrad, Charley (advisor), La Pastina, Antonio (committee member), Jones Barbour, Jennifer (committee member), Peck Parrott, Kelli (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: organizational communication; narrative analysis; service-learning; servant leadership; visual analysis; higher education
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Bogue, P. A. (2014). We All Can Lead Because We All Can Serve: A Narrative and Visual Analysis of The Big Event at Texas A&M University. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/154155
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bogue, Patty Ann. “We All Can Lead Because We All Can Serve: A Narrative and Visual Analysis of The Big Event at Texas A&M University.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/154155.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bogue, Patty Ann. “We All Can Lead Because We All Can Serve: A Narrative and Visual Analysis of The Big Event at Texas A&M University.” 2014. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Bogue PA. We All Can Lead Because We All Can Serve: A Narrative and Visual Analysis of The Big Event at Texas A&M University. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/154155.
Council of Science Editors:
Bogue PA. We All Can Lead Because We All Can Serve: A Narrative and Visual Analysis of The Big Event at Texas A&M University. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/154155
Texas A&M University
9.
Wood, Dustin Alan.
Faith, Politics, and the Misguided Mission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2013, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149432
► The Southern Baptist Convention has experienced both tremendous growth and intense turmoil in its relatively short history. After experiencing increasing internal conflicts throughout the late…
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▼ The Southern Baptist Convention has experienced both tremendous growth and intense turmoil in its relatively short history. After experiencing increasing internal conflicts throughout the late twentieth-century, a decade-long battle over the direction of the denomination resulted in a permanent schism within the Convention. The Shift, as I name it, forever altered the landscape of the Southern Baptist Convention. Notably, The Shift witnessed an apparent replacement of traditional Southern Baptist church-state separationism in favor of overt involvement in partisan politics.
In this dissertation, I provide a historical sketch of the Southern Baptist Convention and explore the denomination‘s evolving positions on church and state by analyzing the Southern Baptist political rhetoric at the individual, agency, and Convention levels after The Shift. Considering the work of H. Richard Niebuhr, I argue that Southern Baptist participation in politics can be understood as an attempt to transform culture to a biblical worldview. However, drawing from the work of Richard Hofstadter and Kenneth Burke, I argue that the Convention struggles to achieve its goal because its political rhetoric is characteristic of the paranoid style and employs scapegoating to blame others for society‘s ills.
This dissertation reveals that the Southern Baptist Convention suffers from a rhetorical problem of audience. I argue that while the denomination‘s political rhetoric galvanizes its conservative base, it alienates non-religious individuals, members of other religious faiths, and even some within the Southern Baptist Convention. I conclude that in order to be a transformative agent in society, the Southern Baptist Convention‘s political rhetoric must undergo a shift in topoi that has more universal appeal. Namely, I argue that the denomination needs to return to its ―Old Rhetoric‖ and, in doing so, appeal to choice, freedom, religious liberty, free exercise, and free expression.
Advisors/Committee Members: Aune, James A (advisor), Jones Barbour, Jennifer (committee member), Conrad, Charles (committee member), Dorsey, Leroy (committee member), Kallendorf, Craig (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Rhetoric; Religion; Politics; Church and State; Southern Baptist Convention
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Wood, D. A. (2013). Faith, Politics, and the Misguided Mission of the Southern Baptist Convention. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149432
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wood, Dustin Alan. “Faith, Politics, and the Misguided Mission of the Southern Baptist Convention.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149432.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wood, Dustin Alan. “Faith, Politics, and the Misguided Mission of the Southern Baptist Convention.” 2013. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Wood DA. Faith, Politics, and the Misguided Mission of the Southern Baptist Convention. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149432.
Council of Science Editors:
Wood DA. Faith, Politics, and the Misguided Mission of the Southern Baptist Convention. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149432
Texas A&M University
10.
Dromgoole, Amy L.
Worth a Thousand Words: Conceptualizing Adolescent Female Body Image Formation through Photovoice.
Degree: PhD, Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences, 2015, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155333
► Body image is a multi-dimensional concept that can affect many facets in adolescent females’ lives. The social comparison theory is a widely utilized theory when…
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▼ Body image is a multi-dimensional concept that can affect many facets in adolescent females’ lives. The social comparison theory is a widely utilized theory when studying body image. This theory framed around the premise that individuals rely on comparisons made in a social environment. This purpose of this study was to investigate the sociocultural factors that influence adolescent female body image—largely focusing on mass media. This focus was to broaden and explore the normative assumptions in research on body image and to support the development of youth led initiatives appropriate for young people. To achieve this study is divided into four studies. The first article contains a systematic literature review that examines previous studies regarding media and the formation of adolescent female body image perceptions. The second, third and fourth articles utilize Photovoice methodologies to explore the overall concept of body image in relation to sociocultural factors and the media. Finally, the social comparison theory is utilized to assess these issues from a theoretical standpoint. All participants in this study displayed characteristics of individuals with positive body image and therefore offer a unique lens to conceptualize body image. Based on findings, it remains necessary to continue to accurately understand the body of literature as it relates to these populations since recent focus has shifted away from adolescents and the media in the United States. These findings also related a need for understanding media in a sociocultural context.
Advisors/Committee Members: Outley, Corliss (advisor), Boleman, Christopher T (advisor), Kelly-Pryor, Brandy (committee member), Jones Barbour, Jennifer (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: body image; photo voice; youth development
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Dromgoole, A. L. (2015). Worth a Thousand Words: Conceptualizing Adolescent Female Body Image Formation through Photovoice. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155333
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Dromgoole, Amy L. “Worth a Thousand Words: Conceptualizing Adolescent Female Body Image Formation through Photovoice.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155333.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Dromgoole, Amy L. “Worth a Thousand Words: Conceptualizing Adolescent Female Body Image Formation through Photovoice.” 2015. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Dromgoole AL. Worth a Thousand Words: Conceptualizing Adolescent Female Body Image Formation through Photovoice. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155333.
Council of Science Editors:
Dromgoole AL. Worth a Thousand Words: Conceptualizing Adolescent Female Body Image Formation through Photovoice. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/155333
Texas A&M University
11.
Murawski, Carrie Marie.
The Militarization of Women's Reproductive Bodies.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2020, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/191792
► This dissertation examines how women’s reproductive (lactating, menstruating, birthing) bodies and choices are constructed by rhetorical processes of militarization. I consider what women’s militarized bodies…
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▼ This dissertation examines how women’s reproductive (lactating, menstruating, birthing) bodies and choices are constructed by rhetorical processes of militarization. I consider what women’s militarized bodies tell us about the policing and containment of women’s reproductive health, lives, and choices in historical, contemporary, and futuristic dystopian texts. Overall, I argue that media texts reveal the many ways in which women’s bodies are policed, surveilled, confined, and disciplined often through contemporary discourses of choice and autonomy. Through temporal, topical, and typical triangulation, this work reveals that the militarization of women’s reproductive bodies is both pertinent and persistent, impacting women’s reproductive health in real-world contexts.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dubriwny, Tasha N (advisor), Poirot, Kristan A (committee member), Wallis, Cara J (committee member), Katz, Claire (committee member), Jones Barbour, Jennifer (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: militarization; reproductive health; militarism; women
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Murawski, C. M. (2020). The Militarization of Women's Reproductive Bodies. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/191792
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Murawski, Carrie Marie. “The Militarization of Women's Reproductive Bodies.” 2020. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/191792.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Murawski, Carrie Marie. “The Militarization of Women's Reproductive Bodies.” 2020. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Murawski CM. The Militarization of Women's Reproductive Bodies. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2020. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/191792.
Council of Science Editors:
Murawski CM. The Militarization of Women's Reproductive Bodies. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2020. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/191792
12.
Rowe, Sara 1988-.
Curating Memory: 9/11 Commemoration and Foucault's Archive.
Degree: MA, Communication, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148344
► This study of commemoration of 9/11 on the 10th anniversary is performed at the intersection of public memory and rhetorical studies. Examining the role of…
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▼ This study of commemoration of 9/11 on the 10th anniversary is performed at the intersection of public memory and rhetorical studies. Examining the role of the individual within public memory, this study furthers both fields by expanding on the definitions, processes, and negotiation between official and vernacular discourse. With a theoretical frame work that uses Foucault's concept of discursive archive, rhetors involved in the creation of public memory are framed as curators of a discursive archive of 9/11 memory. The role and limitations of the curatorial role is explored in three cases studies: a local ceremony, national newspapers, and Twitter hashtags.
The study finds that there is a complicated interaction between vernacular and official memory and narrow definitions of the terms are not sufficient to describe the processes through which individuals take part in public memory. Rhetors involved in the public memory process may take on complex and ambiguous roles within the entangled discourses of official and vernacular memory. Within these case studies, individual curators crafted messages about the 10th anniversary of 9/11 that reify the importance of individuals tied to particular groups, urge for unity, and focus on the ten years since the tragedies.
Advisors/Committee Members: Mercieca, Jennifer (advisor), Campbell, Heidi (committee member), Jones Barbour, Jennifer (committee member), Kellstedt, Paul (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Commemoration; Public Memory; Vernacular Memory; Rhetoric
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Rowe, S. 1. (2012). Curating Memory: 9/11 Commemoration and Foucault's Archive. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148344
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rowe, Sara 1988-. “Curating Memory: 9/11 Commemoration and Foucault's Archive.” 2012. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148344.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rowe, Sara 1988-. “Curating Memory: 9/11 Commemoration and Foucault's Archive.” 2012. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Rowe S1. Curating Memory: 9/11 Commemoration and Foucault's Archive. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148344.
Council of Science Editors:
Rowe S1. Curating Memory: 9/11 Commemoration and Foucault's Archive. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148344
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Kitsch, Sara R.
Lady Citizen: Gender, Memory, and Civic Identity.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2017, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173177
► This dissertation theorizes the first lady as a distinct embodiment of gender and citizenship. In particular, I argue that by examining the intersection of the…
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▼ This dissertation theorizes the first lady as a distinct embodiment of gender and citizenship. In particular, I argue that by examining the intersection of the first lady role and citizenship, we gain a more complete portrait of role’s historic, rhetorical, and public significance. Specifically, this study asks: How does the role of first lady offer a particular embodiment of citizenship in the public sphere? What are the constraints and opportunities of foregrounding the first lady as a public citizen? What are the rhetorical mechanisms that help explain how the informal role persists? Utilizing a rhetorical perspective, I begin with the premise that language, symbols, and discourse are never devoid of argument. My method, then, involves attention to the context, language, visuals, and performative acts through which the first lady role is constructed, maintained, and altered.
Through three case studies I trace how the first lady role is foregrounded as a public citizen. Specifically, I examine the projection of the role onto Michelle Obama during the 2008 press coverage of the presidential election, the rhetorical exigencies that compel Lady Bird Johnson’s 1964 Whistle Stop tour, as well commemoration of the role at the Smithsonian exhibit and six presidential museums. Despite the abundance of possibility in theorizing about the public nature of the first lady role, what manifests throughout this project is a model of citizenship highly constrained, and overdetermined by not only gender, but also race and class. As such, the first lady’s citizen-status is not common or accessible, but rather always circumstantial and subservient to traditions based in white, heteronormative, male, supremacy. Indeed, the role’s agency lies in its ability to reify the gendered, raced, and classed assumptions of our nation’s liberal roots, not challenge them. Despite these findings, the project contributes to the growing body of literature that recovers, resuscitates, and redefines how women’s narratives are being remembered, created, and appreciated. The Lady Citizen presents new obstacles to reviving the first lady’s public legacy, but paves the way future work to come.
Advisors/Committee Members: Poirot, Kristan (advisor), Dubriwny, Tasha (committee member), Jones Barbour, Jennifer (committee member), Katz, Claire (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: First Ladies; Citizenship; Gender
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Kitsch, S. R. (2017). Lady Citizen: Gender, Memory, and Civic Identity. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173177
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kitsch, Sara R. “Lady Citizen: Gender, Memory, and Civic Identity.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173177.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kitsch, Sara R. “Lady Citizen: Gender, Memory, and Civic Identity.” 2017. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Kitsch SR. Lady Citizen: Gender, Memory, and Civic Identity. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173177.
Council of Science Editors:
Kitsch SR. Lady Citizen: Gender, Memory, and Civic Identity. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173177
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Lemley, Lauren.
"That the Truth of Things May Be More Fully Known:" Understanding the Role of Rhetoric in Shaping, Resolving, and Remembering the Salem Witchcraft Crisis.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2011, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7936
► 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,…
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▼ 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 centuries have shaped American public
memory of the Salem witchcraft crisis. My analysis draws from three different chronological
and rhetorical viewpoints. In Chapter II, I build upon work done by scholars such as
McGee, White, and Charland in the area of constitutive rhetoric to address the question of
how the witchcraft crisis was initiated and fueled rhetorically. Then, as my examination
shifts to the rhetorical artifacts constructed immediately after the trials in Chapter III, I rely
on the tradition of apologia, rooted in the ancient Greek understanding of stasis theory to
understand how rhetorical elements were utilized by influential rhetors to craft a variety of
different explanations for the crisis. And finally in Chapter IV, I draw from individuals
such as Halbwachs, Kammen, Zelizer, and Bodnar, working in the cross-disciplinary field of public memory, to respond to the questions of how we remember the trials today and what
impact these memories have on our understanding of the themes of witchcraft and witch
hunting in contemporary American society. Therefore, this project uses the lens of
rhetorical analysis to provide a method for examining and understanding how individuals,
both in the seventeenth century and today, have engaged in the act of updating their
reflections about this facet of American history.
Advisors/Committee Members: Aune, James A. (advisor), Dubriwny, Tasha (committee member), Jones Barbour, Jennifer (committee member), Katz, Claire (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Rhetoric; Constitutive Rhetoric; Apologia; Public Memory; Salem Witchcraft Trials
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Lemley, L. (2011). "That the Truth of Things May Be More Fully Known:" Understanding the Role of Rhetoric in Shaping, Resolving, and Remembering the Salem Witchcraft Crisis. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7936
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lemley, Lauren. “"That the Truth of Things May Be More Fully Known:" Understanding the Role of Rhetoric in Shaping, Resolving, and Remembering the Salem Witchcraft Crisis.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7936.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lemley, Lauren. “"That the Truth of Things May Be More Fully Known:" Understanding the Role of Rhetoric in Shaping, Resolving, and Remembering the Salem Witchcraft Crisis.” 2011. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Lemley L. "That the Truth of Things May Be More Fully Known:" Understanding the Role of Rhetoric in Shaping, Resolving, and Remembering the Salem Witchcraft Crisis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7936.
Council of Science Editors:
Lemley L. "That the Truth of Things May Be More Fully Known:" Understanding the Role of Rhetoric in Shaping, Resolving, and Remembering the Salem Witchcraft Crisis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7936
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Gaffey, Adam.
Imagining the Words of Others: Public Memory and Ceremonial Repetition in American Public Discourse.
Degree: PhD, Communication, 2013, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149352
► Rhetorical analyses of collective memory study how perceptions of a shared past are maintained through public texts. This analysis explores an alternative relationship between rhetoric…
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▼ Rhetorical analyses of collective memory study how perceptions of a shared past are maintained through public texts. This analysis explores an alternative relationship between rhetoric and remembrance. Rather than study the textual form of public memory alone, I argue that communities actively interpret artifacts of public discourse as public memory. The most enduring form of this practice is ceremonial repetition, or the deliberate recitation of a text during moments of communal observance. When performed effectively, ceremonial repetition imagines a text by highlighting a resonant virtue through public reading. Such strategies to mold the meaning of a text occur through a variety of messages adjoining recitation, such as formal speech, visual display, written testament, or spatial and bodily enactment. Ceremonial repetition illustrates the extensional evolution and legacy of speech in the public imagination.
In a range of historically grounded case studies, this work explores the effectiveness and dominant strategies of ceremonial repetition different eras of American public discourse. These examples include the rhetorical invocation of a text within the discursive space of repetition, illustrated in Frederick Douglass’s August First orations on the Emancipation Proclamation in the late nineteenth-century; the pairing of visual icons and ceremonial repetition, as exemplified in official and public readings of George Washington’s Farewell Address within the context of a political flag display during the Civil War; the disjunction of repetition and written reflection, as evidenced by the U.S. Senate’s institutional recitation of the Farewell Address on Washington’s birthday; and the emerging genre of repetition performed through multiple voices and resonant scenery, as clarified in a variety of modern performances, such as the reading of the “I Have a Dream” speech by elementary school students celebrating the King holiday. These case studies illuminate various strategies used to translate past words by constraining their meaning for the needs of the present. Though ceremonial repetition offers audiences the opportunity to reconstitute a text’s properties and public legacy, this study concludes that such epideictic practice is most effective during moments of perceived crisis wherein core tenets of a political culture are profoundly questioned or disrupted.
Advisors/Committee Members: Aune, James A (advisor), Dorsey, Leroy (committee member), Jones Barbour, Jennifer (committee member), Swearingen, C. Jan (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Rhetoric; Public Memory
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Gaffey, A. (2013). Imagining the Words of Others: Public Memory and Ceremonial Repetition in American Public Discourse. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149352
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gaffey, Adam. “Imagining the Words of Others: Public Memory and Ceremonial Repetition in American Public Discourse.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed April 11, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149352.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gaffey, Adam. “Imagining the Words of Others: Public Memory and Ceremonial Repetition in American Public Discourse.” 2013. Web. 11 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Gaffey A. Imagining the Words of Others: Public Memory and Ceremonial Repetition in American Public Discourse. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 11].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149352.
Council of Science Editors:
Gaffey A. Imagining the Words of Others: Public Memory and Ceremonial Repetition in American Public Discourse. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149352
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