Showing papers in "Southern Journal of Communication in 1972"
TL;DR: The authors address the following three questions: What are the distinguishing features of apologiae, past and present, created for the mass media? What variables explain Edward Kennedy's recent failure to succeed with this genre? What implications does the Senator's failure have for future rhetorical discourses of this nature?
Abstract: This article addresses itself to the following three questions: What are the distinguishing features of apologiae, past and present, created for the mass media? What variables explain Edward Kennedy's recent failure to succeed with this genre? What implications does the Senator's failure have for future rhetorical discourses of this nature?
29 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that an examination of Gorgias' sophistic theories does an injustice to him and blurs an important philosophical relationship between his thought and modern existential phenomenology, and they propose an alternative approach to view Gorgia through the idealism of Plato.
Abstract: Students of ancient rhetoric and poetic generally are content to view Gorgias through the idealism of Plato. Such an examination of his sophistic theories does an injustice to him and blurs an important philosophical relationship between his thought and modern existential phenomenology.
24 citations
TL;DR: This paper found that the inclusion of humor in a persuasive sermon would increase the sermon's persuasiveness and increase the speaker's ethos ratings, although results failed to support either hypothesis, although the results regarding speaker ethos ratings were in the expected direction.
Abstract: It was hypothesized that the inclusion of humor in a persuasive sermon would (1) increase the sermon's persuasiveness, and (2) increase the speaker's ethos ratings. Results failed to support either hypothesis, although the results regarding speaker ethos ratings were in the expected direction. The study suggests that the subjects exposed to the humorous sermon may have reacted to some aspects of the speaker's ethos more than to others.
18 citations
TL;DR: This article explored a part of that developing apologia, a reasoning chain frequently employed between 1889 and 1900 in the ceremonial oratory of Confederate veterans, which would satisfactorily explain the sharp variance between antebellum expectations and postbellum realities.
Abstract: Confederate defeat, in 1865, left the South in search of an apologia which would satisfactorily explain the sharp variance between ante‐bellum expectations and post‐bellum realities. The following essay explores a part of that developing apologia, a reasoning chain frequently employed between 1889 and 1900 in the ceremonial oratory of Confederate veterans.
13 citations
TL;DR: Racism is a rhetorical strategy that excludes one group from the moral universe of another by fixing on some alleged physical or mental difference and declaring that difference transcends all other considerations as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In order to respond to an attack on slavery rooted in a definition of Humanity, Southern spokesmen chose to remove some four million people, by reason of “racial” differences, beyond what constituted a human being. This rhetorical strategy appears throughout human history whenever one group of people, for whatever reasons—war, social turmoil, profit—seeks to justify the subordination of another group. Racism excludes one group from the moral universe of another by fixing on some alleged physical or mental difference and declaring that that difference transcends all other considerations. Seen in this light, racism becomes a truly sophisticated and coherent ideological defense of power.
11 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempt to clarify one of the basic terms in current philosophical thinking on rhetoric; "audience", which they call the audience, in order to understand any system of thought, rhetorical or philosophical, must first understand any terms basic to that particular system.
Abstract: To understand any system of thought, rhetorical or philosophical, we must first understand any terms basic to that particular system. This article is an attempt to clarify one of the basic terms in current philosophical thinking on rhetoric; “audience.”
7 citations
TL;DR: The authors found that the northern and southern community leaders differed in their programming requests, and the two public samples were quite similar, however, in ranking their requests, suggesting that care should be exercised by concerned public agencies in evaluating community leaders' opinions, since they differ from their publics' unsystematically.
Abstract: Replicating salient features of a study perfomed in Michigan, it was found that the northern and southern community leaders differed in their programming requests. The two public samples were quite similar, however, in ranking their requests. The findings suggest that care should be exercised by concerned public agencies in evaluating community leaders’ opinions, since they differ from their publics’ unsystematically.
5 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a group of prowar Republicans led by Henry Clay gained control of the federal House of Representatives in 1811, and the War Hawks sought to persuade their colleagues that the United States should go to war with Great Britain.
Abstract: In November, 1811, a group of prowar Republicans led by Henry Clay gained control of the federal House of Representatives. This paper demonstrates how the War Hawks sought to persuade their fellow Congressmen that the United States should go to war with Great Britain.
4 citations
TL;DR: The Secretary of State George C. Marshall's address at Harvard University in June of 1947 has been considered one of the most significant American public speeches since the culmination of the Second World War as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Secretary of State George C. Marshall's address at Harvard University in June of 1947 has been considered one of the most significant American public speeches since the culmination of the Second World War. Marshall and his elite staff elected to announce an ambitious program of economic assistance for postwar Europe in Cambridge. The unique character of the Secretary's Commencement Day pronouncement reflected the political‐man's use of a respected, academic platform.
3 citations
TL;DR: In this essay the author examines the textual critic's job, his problems, and resulting efforts as he seeks to establish the authenticity of speech texts.
Abstract: In this essay the author examines the textual critic's job, his problems, and resulting efforts as he seeks to establish the authenticity of speech texts. Some new textual principles, contrasted with those of written literature, emerge.
3 citations
TL;DR: The most important amateur theatrical group in the city respected him so highly that the members chose to call themselves the John T. Ford Amateur Association as discussed by the authors, which was the first amateur theatrical association in America.
Abstract: John T. Ford of Baltimore contributed richly to theater in Savannah. Companies and stars appeared there under his management, even when conditions were adverse. The most important amateur theatrical group in the city respected him so highly that the members chose to call themselves the John T. Ford Amateur Association.
TL;DR: In this paper, six plays from the middle period of Ibsen's career illustrate his knowledge of the dynamics of rhetoric and the social impact of public speaking and provide exciting theatrical moments which function significantly within the plot structure.
Abstract: Six plays from the middle period of Ibsen's career illustrate his knowledge of the dynamics of rhetoric and the social impact of public speaking. Orations provide exciting theatrical moments which function significantly within the plot structure. The speakers are revealed as either skillful persuaders or rejected idealists.
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the refutative techniques used by John C. Calhoun in twentynine speeches given in senatorial debate and concludes that they were ineffective and ineffective in many cases.
Abstract: This study analyzes the refutative techniques used by John C. Calhoun in twenty‐nine speeches given in senatorial debate.
TL;DR: The French performed the only native drama presented in Baltimore in the eighteenth century as mentioned in this paper, in an apparent effort to preserve their heritage, the Acadians from Nova Scotia and settlers from Santa Domingo contributed French drama to the cultural development of their adopted city.
Abstract: The French performed the only native drama presented in Baltimore in the eighteenth century. In an apparent effort to preserve their heritage, the Acadians from Nova Scotia and settlers from Santa Domingo contributed French drama to the cultural development of their adopted city.
TL;DR: This paper examined two opposing theories of the expression of simulated emotions and found that subjects vocally simulating emotional states employ an underlying breath-group pattern, and whether pitch levels were varied during such utterances.
Abstract: This study examines two opposing theories of the expression of simulated emotions. The research was designed to determine whether subjects vocally simulating emotional states employ an underlying breath‐group pattern, and whether pitch levels were varied during such utterances.
TL;DR: By examining directorial prerogatives in the interpretation of Young Marlow, the authors suggests that Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer" can be performed as high and critical comedy.
Abstract: By examining directorial prerogatives in the interpretation of Young Marlow, this essay suggests that Goldsmith's “She Stoops to Conquer” can be performed as high and critical comedy.
TL;DR: Fulbright's public dissent came about as a result of the crisis in the Dominican Republic, rather than as a direct result of events in Southeast Asia as mentioned in this paper, and his major speech delivered after closed-door hearings into the U. S. involvement in the Dominica crisis raised the issue of the Johnson administration's candor and credibility and defined Fulbright's concept of the role of the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the making and executing of American foreign policy.
Abstract: Senator Fulbright's public dissent came about as a result of the crisis in the Dominican Republic, rather than as a direct result of events in Southeast Asia. His major speech delivered after closed‐door hearings into the U. S. involvement in the Dominican crisis raised the issue of the Johnson administration's candor and credibility and defined Fulbright's concept of the role of the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the making and executing of American foreign policy.
TL;DR: The story of the speech and the events which brought it about should be told as it happened and not as the historians have erroneously written it as mentioned in this paper. But the story of Adams' speech and of the events that led to it should be described as it actually happened.
Abstract: John Quincy Adams’ speech of February 9, 1837, in defense of the right of a slave to petition Congress, was important to the abolitionist cause. But the story of the speech and of the events which brought it about should be told as it happened and not as the historians have erroneously written it.
TL;DR: The authors compared the four speeches for similarity of themes to determine the degree of uniformity in the thinking of southern political leaders, and found that four of the governors (Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi) urged their legislatures in public addresses to call special secession conventions; the fifth, Alabama, called such a convention himself, bypassing the legislative route.
Abstract: After Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860, the five Deep South governors wanted to get out of the Union, partly to protect their states’ slave‐holding status. Four of the governors (Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi) urged their legislatures in public addresses to call special secession conventions; the fifth, Alabama, called such a convention himself, by‐passing the legislative route. This paper compares the four speeches for similarity of themes to determine the degree of uniformity in the thinking of southern political leaders.
TL;DR: This paper measured the effect of language style on the recall of oral messages and found that the greater the abstractness of the message, the less the amount of recall, while the more abstractness the better the recall.
Abstract: ness was used as an independent variable to measure the effect of language style upon the recall of oral messages. It was found that the greater the abstractness of the message, the less the amount of recall.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply some of these principles and discover new lines of development in the work of Henrik Ibsen, in order to determine the structure of and for evaluating rhetorical drama.
Abstract: Principles for determining the structure of and for evaluating rhetorical drama are currently being formulated and explored. This article seeks to apply some of these principles and discover new lines of development in the work of Henrik Ibsen.
TL;DR: In this article, a famous political theorist made some insightful observations on the role of the orator within the state and the danger of eloquence that is not founded in wisdom during a period of great anarchy and bloodshed.
Abstract: During a period of great anarchy and bloodshed, a famous political theorist made some insightful observations on the role of the orator within the state and the danger of eloquence that is not founded in wisdom.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors limit the resources through the use of casebooks to increase their time and opportunity to analyze and exercise the logical and rhetorical significance of data in a skills course.
Abstract: A major problem in skills courses is that students spend so much time chasing data that they fail to analyze the material they find. By limiting the resources through the use of casebooks, the speakers, audience, and instructor increase their time and opportunity to analyze and exercise the logical and rhetorical significance of data.