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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Volume 39(2), 2009

 
CONTENTS
 
Britt, Elizabeth C. Dangerous deliberation: Subjective probability and rhetorical democracy in the jury room 103-123
 
  Anxiety about the deliberative abilities of ordinary citizens, feared to be too easily influenced by the powers of rhetoric, has accompanied democracy since its birth 
 
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reticence
classical rhetoric
persuasion
public speaking
democracy
politics and government
family
law
methodology
marriage and intimacy
emotion
debate
 
 
Tell, Dave Jimmy Swaggart's secular confession 124-146
 
  Following the exposure of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart's illicit rendezvous with a New Orleans prostitute, the Assemblies of God simultaneously orchestrated a massive attempt to silence those who would discuss the tryst and arranged the most widely publicized confession in American history theretofore 
 
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religion
classical rhetoric
rhetoric
 
 
Gross, Alan G. Toward a theory of verbal-visual interaction: The example of Lavoisier 147-169
 
  Because visuals play a significant communicative role in the majority of texts in the sciences, a theory of the role of verbal-visual interaction in the creation and communication of meaning would seem a useful addition to the exegetical armamentarium 
 
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visualization
rhetoric
theory
 
 
Roberts-Miller, Patricia Dissent as "aid and comfort to the enemy": The rhetorical power of naive realism and ingroup identity 170-188
 
  This paper argues that, for many people and in many circumstances, public deliberation is about group identity rather than argumentation 
 
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small group roles
interpersonal
rhetoric
 
 
McClure, Kevin Resurrecting the narrative paradigm: Identification and the case of Young Earth Creationism 189-211
 
  This article extends the work of conceptual revision of the narrative paradigm in order to more directly and completely account for the inventional possibilities of new narratives, the rhetorical revision of old narratives, and the appeal and acceptance of improbable narrative accounts 
 
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narrative
rhetoric
persuasion
critical theory