| Argumentation & Advocacy |
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| Volume 47(3), 2011 |
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Pfister, Damien Smith |
The logos of the blogosphere: Flooding the zone, invention, and attention in the Lott imbroglio. |
141-162 |
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| | This essay examines the significance of a particular metaphor, flooding the zone, which gained prominence as an account of bloggers' argumentative prowess in the wake of Senator Trent Lott's toast at Strom Thurmond's centennial birthday party | |
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metaphor
politics and government
rhetoric
news
print journalism
debate
computerl
social structure
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West, Isaac |
What's the matter with Kansas and New York City? Definitional ruptures and the politics of sex. |
163-177 |
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| | A decision from the Supreme Court of Kansas and a regulatory reform debate in New York City serve as representative controversies about the state's desire to control the meaning of sex | |
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law
politics and government
debate
semiotic theory
gender
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Innocenti, Beth |
Countering questionable tactics by crying foul. |
178-188 |
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| | How do crying foul strategies, such as saying opponents are trying to terrify others into a decision, pressure opponents to argue well? I submit that crying foul works by making a norm determinate, and by making manifest the badness of the tactic and that the speaker is exercising forbearance | |
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