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Collective Action and the Single Text.

Ralph R. Smith, +1 more
- 01 Mar 1978 - 
- Vol. 43, Iss: 2, pp 110-128
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In addition to employing current approaches to movement study, instructors should illustrate certain movement-specific concepts by reference to ideomemes as mentioned in this paper, which is a formidable task since the discourse of any one movement is extensive and diverse.
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Students of rhetoric should be familiar with concepts useful in the critical analysis of movement discourse. Illustrating these concepts is a formidable task since the discourse of any one movement is extensive and diverse. In addition to employing current approaches to movement study, instructors should illustrate certain movement‐specific concepts by reference to ideomemes. Examination of George S. Counts’ rhetorical strategy in Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order illustrates the nature and importance of the concepts, type and stage.

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The interpretation of abolitionist rhetoric: Historiography, rhetorical method, and history

TL;DR: This article argued that Bormann's interpretation was deeply influenced by Barnes, and that convergence theory did not generate Borman's interpretation of abolition; their use of terministic analysis is appropriate; and their views on abolition are imprecise and overgeneralized.
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Paying Attention to Channels: Differential Images of Recruitment in Students for a Democratic Society, 1960-1965.

TL;DR: The authors examines recruitment by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to support this contention and concludes that scholars investigating movements should look beyond public and mass communication if they seek a general theory of the rhetoric of movements.
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Social conflict and social movements

Anthony Oberschall
- 01 Jan 1974 - 
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