North Carolina Journal of Speech Communications
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Oral communication
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Oral communication
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Drama
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Author : Christopher Grasso
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807847725
As cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century America began to describe themselves and their world in new ways. Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, Christopher Grasso explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in eighteenth-century Connecticut. In New England through the first half of the century, only learned clergymen regularly addressed the public. After midcentury, however, newspapers, essays, and eventually lay orations introduced new rhetorical strategies to persuade or instruct an audience. With the rise of a print culture in the early Republic, the intellectual elite had to compete with other voices and address multiple audiences. By the end of the century, concludes Grasso, public discourse came to be understood not as the words of an authoritative few to the people but rather as a civic conversation of the people.
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Drama
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Author : Sandra M. Gustafson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807839140
Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, "eloquence was POWER." In this book, Sandra Gustafson examines the multiple traditions of sacred, diplomatic, and political speech that flourished in British America and the early republic from colonization through 1800. She demonstrates that, in the American crucible of cultures, contact and conflict among Europeans, native Americans, and Africans gave particular significance and complexity to the uses of the spoken word. Gustafson develops what she calls the performance semiotic of speech and text as a tool for comprehending the rich traditions of early American oratory. Embodied in the delivery of speeches, she argues, were complex projections of power and authenticity that were rooted in or challenged text-based claims of authority. Examining oratorical performances as varied as treaty negotiations between native and British Americans, the eloquence of evangelical women during the Great Awakening, and the founding fathers' debates over the Constitution, Gustafson explores how orators employed the shifting symbolism of speech and text to imbue their voices with power.
Author : M. Alison Kibler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1469618370
A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century. In this provocative study, M. Alison Kibler uncovers, for the first time, powerful and concurrent campaigns by Irish, Jewish and African Americans against racial ridicule in popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century. Censoring Racial Ridicule explores how Irish, Jewish, and African American groups of the era resisted harmful representations in popular culture by lobbying behind the scenes, boycotting particular acts, and staging theater riots. Kibler demonstrates that these groups' tactics evolved and diverged over time, with some continuing to pursue street protest while others sought redress through new censorship laws. Exploring the relationship between free expression, democracy, and equality in America, Kibler shows that the Irish, Jewish, and African American campaigns against racial ridicule are at the roots of contemporary debates over hate speech.
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Military intelligence
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Education
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Page : 700 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Law
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Author : Leonard Williams Levy
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807845158
What society considers blasphemy - a verbal assault against the sacred - is a litmus test of the standards it believes to be necessary to preserve unity, order, and morality. Society has always condemned as blasphemy what it regards as an abuse of liberty