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  1. Styles of Rejection in Local Public Argument on Iraq.Aaron Dimock - 2010 - Argumentation 24 (4):423-452.
    A campaign to pass city council resolutions opposing an American invasion of Iraq in the Fall of 2002 and Spring of 2003 provided an opportunity to examine contrasting styles of public argument. This paper examines an extensive set of news and editorial articles as well as the actual deliberations before city councils. An argument’s style constructs a relationship between the speaker, audience, and issue through the strategic use of language. Two conflicting styles of argument were apparent in these deliberations: a (...)
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  • Discourses that silence and deflect attention away from the interests of low-wage workers experiencing job loss.Amanda M. Gunn - 2011 - Critical Discourse Studies 8 (1):31-44.
    This case study, involving in-depth interviewing with 60 employees and an extensive newspaper analysis, illuminates that public discourse in and around the lived experience of job loss is not only minimal, but that there are discursive mechanisms that deflect attention away from the interests of the human beings facing unemployment. Discursive control as a focus of critical organizational communication scholarship provides the context for exploring the data. Silence and false information emerge in all of the discourse communities as mechanisms of (...)
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  • The Persuasive Force of Demanding.Beth Innocenti & Nichole Kathol - 2018 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 51 (1):50-72.
    A paradigm case of demanding involves making utterances designed to influence addressees to accede.1 It would be incoherent to say, "I demand that you do x, but I am not saying that you ought to do x," or "I demand that you do x, although I am fully aware that you cannot do x." The extraordinary nature of demanding may be gleaned from anomalous utterances such as "employees may demand time off by notifying scheduling managers at least one month in (...)
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