... Corre-spondence to: Windy Y. Lawrence, Department of Arts & Humanities, University of... more ... Corre-spondence to: Windy Y. Lawrence, Department of Arts & Humanities, University of Houston Downtown, 1 Main St ... the same time, conversation can create a social context with strong affective bonds and cognitive power (Bohman, 1996; Carlin & McKinney, 1994; Hollihan ...
Submission Guidelines S&G publishes refereed articles addressing all aspects of communication the... more Submission Guidelines S&G publishes refereed articles addressing all aspects of communication theory and practice. Authors should submit three copies of their manuscript prepared according to the latest edition of MLA or APA guidelines. Use minimal endnotes only for exposition or explanation, not as bibliographic citations. Include a cover letter identifying author(s) and affiliation(s). Remove all references in the manuscript to author and affiliation to facilitate blind review. S&G encourages and promotes undergraduate and graduate research. Submissions from undergraduate and graduate students should be identified as such on the cover letter. Enclose a computer disk with an accurate copy of your manuscript. Clearly label the the disk with OS platform (e.g., Macintosh, Windows) and word processing software.
During contemporaneous rhetorical criticism of his style in discourse, President Ronald Reagan wa... more During contemporaneous rhetorical criticism of his style in discourse, President Ronald Reagan was assessed in terms of his living up to the eloquence of John F. Kennedy‘s Inaugural Address. In those two Speaker & Gavel Essays, Reagan was found to be deficient and thus a ―less-than-great communicator.‖ After revisiting and reassessing those two essays, Reagan‘s essentially conversational mode of communication for television was found to embody rhetorical elements that indeed may have fostered eloquence sufficient to retain the sobriquet of ―great communicator.‖ Introduction In two Speaker & Gavel essays during the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan‘s style in discourse was the focus of contemporaneous rhetorical criticism. Therein, his attempts to achieve stylized syntax and lexicon were scrutinized (during his presidency) for adherence to classical desiderata conducing to eloquence, and exemplars of style against which Reagan‘s sentences were measured often were in John F. Kennedy‘s In...
This study advances our knowledge of the role of metaphor in deliberation in everyday speech (wit... more This study advances our knowledge of the role of metaphor in deliberation in everyday speech (with an emphasis on the role of competition, cooperation, and connection metaphors), which up to now has not been studied as an important discursive strategy in deliberation. Furthermore, the study contributes to our understanding of the discursive practices that happen during deliberation, as opposed to measuring, for example, deliberation’s effects. After all, scholars, more and more, are writing about deliberative communication as a means to understand how communities can improve the quality of their communication and decision-making to work through problems. Language strategies, such as metaphor, help deliberators resolve what scholars have referred to as “wicked problems” or problems that are negotiated across time and are latent with competing values and social identities. One example of a citizen-led, localized context, where community members work to address a “wicked problem” is th...
In 2014, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) produced a sequel mo... more In 2014, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) produced a sequel monograph, Stewards of Place II, which followed up on and extended the learnings about community engagement from the preceding report—Stepping Forward as Stewards of Place—published over a decade earlier. This article examines some of AASCU’s learnings over the past 10 years about the important role of colleges and universities as stewards of place. Specifically, the authors contend that dialogue and deliberation are key approaches for strengthening the position of colleges and universities as stewards of place. The article defines dialogue and deliberation, discusses five main reasons the authors believe dialogue and deliberation can strengthen colleges and universities’ function as stewards of place, highlights four case studies that illustrate how dialogue and deliberation are currently being utilized on campuses, and considers further implications of this work.
concerning religion" (86). Any disagreement in the First Congress over the religion clauses, it s... more concerning religion" (86). Any disagreement in the First Congress over the religion clauses, it seems, centered on how best to say that government enjoyed no such intrusive power. One draft simply read, "Congress shall make no laws touching religion, or infringing the rights of conscience" (87). Levy forces readers,and especially informed ones, to question, if not reject, long-held perceptions. No doubt the Framers would be astonished and alarmed to learn that judges and politicians today have promoted such an accommodationist doctrine. Ironically, many who claim that prayer should be restored to public classrooms are the same ones who call for the Supreme Court to use original intent as the sole basis for their rulings. Levy treats the remaining rights with the same careful analysis. Recognizing the necessity of open and honest political discourse, Madison extended constitutional protection not for the press itself but for the freedom of the press. While Levy writes that the Framers may have meant "a right to engage in rasping, corrosive, and offensive discussions on all topics of public interest" (123), the ratification debates offer little evidence of the intended substance and scope of a free press guarantee. The Second Amendment (the only one with a preamble),he suggests, preserves an individual right to bear arms. Levy notes the preoccupation with the concept and goals of an accusatory system of criminal justice. He chronicles the origins of the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable government searches and seizures, and points out that the phrase "self-incrimination" that we associate with the Fifth Amendment was never used throughout its origins and development. The Eighth Amendment admonition about cruel and unusual punishment actually duplicates a provision in the 1689 English Bill of Rights. Origins is a reference work of the first order. It records multiple voices of a bygone era, reflects on formative political impulses, and journeys into textual interpretation. Contemporary politicians and jurists would be well served to read this engaging book. In fact, we all would.
... Bruce Connery, Vice President of Investor and Media Relations • Marta Crinejo, Assistant Agen... more ... Bruce Connery, Vice President of Investor and Media Relations • Marta Crinejo, Assistant Agenda Director, City of Houston • Catrina Gonzales Cron, Director of Environmental Issues, County Judge Ed Emmett • Fred Friedan, Donor Relations, United Way Page 4. • Rose Mary Fry ...
... b & Mark Cervenka b pages 277-296. ... The subordination of African American intellec... more ... b & Mark Cervenka b pages 277-296. ... The subordination of African American intellectual traditions and ways of knowing is not limited to communication studies; it is prevalent throughout the academy (Asante, 19905. Asante , MK ( 1990 ). Kemet, Afrocentricity and knowledge . ...
Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2022
Deliberative pedagogy holds promise for improving democratic society by cultivating practical wis... more Deliberative pedagogy holds promise for improving democratic society by cultivating practical wisdom in students as a means to tackle the problems of democracy, such as polarization. This study embraced an opportunity to consider civic education in the 21st century through deliberative pedagogy by considering practical wisdom in a synchronous, virtual deliberation among university stakeholders and local political candidates concerning our role in 21st-century politics. This civic site enabled an analysis of practical wisdom across three student roles: facilitators enrolled in a deliberation course; students from the wider university; and student alumni of the university’s deliberation center, who had been exposed to deliberation in curricular and cocurricular practice. Using a constructive rhetorical analysis to understand practical wisdom within deliberative pedagogy discourse, we contend that students in these three different roles demonstrated three key aspects of practical wisdo...
... Corre-spondence to: Windy Y. Lawrence, Department of Arts & Humanities, University of... more ... Corre-spondence to: Windy Y. Lawrence, Department of Arts & Humanities, University of Houston Downtown, 1 Main St ... the same time, conversation can create a social context with strong affective bonds and cognitive power (Bohman, 1996; Carlin & McKinney, 1994; Hollihan ...
Submission Guidelines S&G publishes refereed articles addressing all aspects of communication the... more Submission Guidelines S&G publishes refereed articles addressing all aspects of communication theory and practice. Authors should submit three copies of their manuscript prepared according to the latest edition of MLA or APA guidelines. Use minimal endnotes only for exposition or explanation, not as bibliographic citations. Include a cover letter identifying author(s) and affiliation(s). Remove all references in the manuscript to author and affiliation to facilitate blind review. S&G encourages and promotes undergraduate and graduate research. Submissions from undergraduate and graduate students should be identified as such on the cover letter. Enclose a computer disk with an accurate copy of your manuscript. Clearly label the the disk with OS platform (e.g., Macintosh, Windows) and word processing software.
During contemporaneous rhetorical criticism of his style in discourse, President Ronald Reagan wa... more During contemporaneous rhetorical criticism of his style in discourse, President Ronald Reagan was assessed in terms of his living up to the eloquence of John F. Kennedy‘s Inaugural Address. In those two Speaker & Gavel Essays, Reagan was found to be deficient and thus a ―less-than-great communicator.‖ After revisiting and reassessing those two essays, Reagan‘s essentially conversational mode of communication for television was found to embody rhetorical elements that indeed may have fostered eloquence sufficient to retain the sobriquet of ―great communicator.‖ Introduction In two Speaker & Gavel essays during the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan‘s style in discourse was the focus of contemporaneous rhetorical criticism. Therein, his attempts to achieve stylized syntax and lexicon were scrutinized (during his presidency) for adherence to classical desiderata conducing to eloquence, and exemplars of style against which Reagan‘s sentences were measured often were in John F. Kennedy‘s In...
This study advances our knowledge of the role of metaphor in deliberation in everyday speech (wit... more This study advances our knowledge of the role of metaphor in deliberation in everyday speech (with an emphasis on the role of competition, cooperation, and connection metaphors), which up to now has not been studied as an important discursive strategy in deliberation. Furthermore, the study contributes to our understanding of the discursive practices that happen during deliberation, as opposed to measuring, for example, deliberation’s effects. After all, scholars, more and more, are writing about deliberative communication as a means to understand how communities can improve the quality of their communication and decision-making to work through problems. Language strategies, such as metaphor, help deliberators resolve what scholars have referred to as “wicked problems” or problems that are negotiated across time and are latent with competing values and social identities. One example of a citizen-led, localized context, where community members work to address a “wicked problem” is th...
In 2014, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) produced a sequel mo... more In 2014, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) produced a sequel monograph, Stewards of Place II, which followed up on and extended the learnings about community engagement from the preceding report—Stepping Forward as Stewards of Place—published over a decade earlier. This article examines some of AASCU’s learnings over the past 10 years about the important role of colleges and universities as stewards of place. Specifically, the authors contend that dialogue and deliberation are key approaches for strengthening the position of colleges and universities as stewards of place. The article defines dialogue and deliberation, discusses five main reasons the authors believe dialogue and deliberation can strengthen colleges and universities’ function as stewards of place, highlights four case studies that illustrate how dialogue and deliberation are currently being utilized on campuses, and considers further implications of this work.
concerning religion" (86). Any disagreement in the First Congress over the religion clauses, it s... more concerning religion" (86). Any disagreement in the First Congress over the religion clauses, it seems, centered on how best to say that government enjoyed no such intrusive power. One draft simply read, "Congress shall make no laws touching religion, or infringing the rights of conscience" (87). Levy forces readers,and especially informed ones, to question, if not reject, long-held perceptions. No doubt the Framers would be astonished and alarmed to learn that judges and politicians today have promoted such an accommodationist doctrine. Ironically, many who claim that prayer should be restored to public classrooms are the same ones who call for the Supreme Court to use original intent as the sole basis for their rulings. Levy treats the remaining rights with the same careful analysis. Recognizing the necessity of open and honest political discourse, Madison extended constitutional protection not for the press itself but for the freedom of the press. While Levy writes that the Framers may have meant "a right to engage in rasping, corrosive, and offensive discussions on all topics of public interest" (123), the ratification debates offer little evidence of the intended substance and scope of a free press guarantee. The Second Amendment (the only one with a preamble),he suggests, preserves an individual right to bear arms. Levy notes the preoccupation with the concept and goals of an accusatory system of criminal justice. He chronicles the origins of the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable government searches and seizures, and points out that the phrase "self-incrimination" that we associate with the Fifth Amendment was never used throughout its origins and development. The Eighth Amendment admonition about cruel and unusual punishment actually duplicates a provision in the 1689 English Bill of Rights. Origins is a reference work of the first order. It records multiple voices of a bygone era, reflects on formative political impulses, and journeys into textual interpretation. Contemporary politicians and jurists would be well served to read this engaging book. In fact, we all would.
... Bruce Connery, Vice President of Investor and Media Relations • Marta Crinejo, Assistant Agen... more ... Bruce Connery, Vice President of Investor and Media Relations • Marta Crinejo, Assistant Agenda Director, City of Houston • Catrina Gonzales Cron, Director of Environmental Issues, County Judge Ed Emmett • Fred Friedan, Donor Relations, United Way Page 4. • Rose Mary Fry ...
... b & Mark Cervenka b pages 277-296. ... The subordination of African American intellec... more ... b & Mark Cervenka b pages 277-296. ... The subordination of African American intellectual traditions and ways of knowing is not limited to communication studies; it is prevalent throughout the academy (Asante, 19905. Asante , MK ( 1990 ). Kemet, Afrocentricity and knowledge . ...
Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2022
Deliberative pedagogy holds promise for improving democratic society by cultivating practical wis... more Deliberative pedagogy holds promise for improving democratic society by cultivating practical wisdom in students as a means to tackle the problems of democracy, such as polarization. This study embraced an opportunity to consider civic education in the 21st century through deliberative pedagogy by considering practical wisdom in a synchronous, virtual deliberation among university stakeholders and local political candidates concerning our role in 21st-century politics. This civic site enabled an analysis of practical wisdom across three student roles: facilitators enrolled in a deliberation course; students from the wider university; and student alumni of the university’s deliberation center, who had been exposed to deliberation in curricular and cocurricular practice. Using a constructive rhetorical analysis to understand practical wisdom within deliberative pedagogy discourse, we contend that students in these three different roles demonstrated three key aspects of practical wisdo...
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