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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Ideological History of American Liberalism

by Stephen P. Depoe

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780817358877

Pub Date: November 2016

Format: Paperback

Examines the origin, elements, and evolving significance of the “tides” in his discourse of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Ad Hominem Arguments

by Douglas Walton

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817355616

Pub Date: March 2009

Format: Paperback

A vital contribution to legal theory and media and civic discourse

Community over Chaos

An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics

by James A. Mackin

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780817358242

Pub Date: December 2014

Format: Paperback

As James A. Mackin, Jr., shows, both modernism and postmodernism have undermined the traditional foundations for ethics. Using an ecological model, however, Community over Chaos develops a common ground for ethical judgments about communication, thus countering the current theoretical climate of pessimistic cynicism toward the very possibility of ethics.

Reagan and Public Discourse in America

Edited by Michael Weiler and W. Barnett Pearce

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817354077

Pub Date: August 2006

Format: Paperback

A critical assessment of the impact of the administration of President Ronald Reagan on public discourse in the United States

Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent

Edited by David Williams and Michael David Hazen

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817353353

Pub Date: February 2006

Format: Paperback

Essays strive to parse out the nature of assent

The Cultural Prison

Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment

by John M. Sloop

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817353339

Pub Date: January 2006

Format: Paperback

The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments.

Elite Oral History Discourse

A Study of Cooperation and Coherence

by Eva M. McMahan

Foreword by Ronald J. Grele

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817358549

Pub Date: October 2015

Format: Paperback

Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, Eva M. McMahan describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers and narrators to interact successfully in the interview context.