Argumentation and Advocacy

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• The rhetorical invention of diversity: Supreme Court opinions, public argument, and affirmative action.
• The attraction of the ideal has no traction on the real: On adversariality and roles in argument.
• How to belong: Women's agency in a transnational world.
• Speech and Debate as Civic Education.
• The playful divide: a new look at arguing for fun.
• The #Rhetoric of Waleed Aly's 'Send Forgiveness Viral': Is Rogerian argumentation an appropriate response to racism?
• Romanticism, rhetoric, and the search for the sublime.
• 'The glory of each generation is to set its own precedent': Belva Lockwood and the rhetorical construction of female presidential plausibility.
• (Mis)quoting King: commemorative stewardship and ethos in the controversy over the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.
• Analyzing and judging the manifest rationality of Gloria Steinem's 'Supremacy Crimes'.

Featured documents

• Manipulating emotions: value-based reasoning and emotive language.
• The attraction of the ideal has no traction on the real: On adversariality and roles in argument.
• Tropes in the rhetoric of gun rights: a pragma-dialectic analysis.
• Deliberation and trust.
• The Supreme Court cleans the air: legal and scientific standards for argument in Massachusetts v. EPA.
• Here is a strange and bitter crop: Emmett Till and the rhetorical complications of treescape memory.
• "Forcing" and "consenting" social struggle: reflections on rhetoric and Jacobinism.
• Speech and Debate as Civic Education.
• "I thought we settled this?!" Antecedents and consequences of resolution of an initial episode in a serial argument.
• A content analysis of arguing behaviors: a case study of Romania as compared to the United States.