Vernacular Voices
The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres.

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Authors and Corporations: Hauser, Gerard A., Pezzullo, Phaedra C.
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Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2022.
©1999.
Part of: Studies in Rhetoric and Communication Series
Media Type: Book, E-Book

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Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 pages)
ISBN: 9781643362861
Edition: 2nd ed.
Language: English
Part of: Studies in Rhetoric and Communication Series
Subjects:
Print version:: Hauser, Gerard A., Vernacular Voices, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press,c2022
Collection: E-Books für FID Media
Table of Contents
Summary:

An award-winning study of how formal and informal public discourse shapes opinions.

Table of Contents: Cover
VERNACULAR VOICES
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
List of Tables
Foreword
Series Editor's Preface
Preface 2022
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Forgotten Publics
E pluribus unum
Chapter 1 The Public Voice of Vernacular Rhetoric
Rhetoric's Place in the Athenian Democracy
Civil Society and the Appearance of Public Opinion
Vox Populi and the Problem of "Public" Opinion
Rhetorical Antecedents of Publics
Conclusion
Chapter 2 Discourse, Rhetorical Discourse, and the Public Sphere
The Bourgeois Public Sphere
Rhetorical Counterassumptions to Habermas's Model
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Civic Conversation and the Reticulate Public Sphere
Outline of a Rhetorical Model of the Public Sphere
Public Conversation and the Associations of the Reticulate Public Sphere
Common Meaning and the Associative Networks of the Reticulate Public Sphere
The Ground of Civil Judgment
Rhetorical Criteria of the Public Sphere
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Reading Public Opinion from Vernacular Rhetoric
Witnessing Vernacular Discourse: An Outsider's Experience
Vernacular Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Locus of Public Opinion
Public Opinion and Reasoning
Public Opinion and Common Understanding
The Dialogical Process of Opinion Formation
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Narrative, Cultural Memory, and the Appropriation of Historicity
Rhetoric and the Active Society
Memories of Hope: Poland
Memories of Despair: Yugoslavia
Contrasting Stories, Contrasting Possibilities
Conclusion: The Narrative Bridge from Tradition to Historicity
Chapter 6 Reshaping Publics and Public Spheres: The Meese Commission's Report on Pornography
A Call to Reshape the Literary Public Sphere
The Final Report: Version I
The Final Report: Version II
Reconstructing the Public Sphere
Conclusion.
Chapter 7 Technologizing Public Opinion: Opinion Polls, the Iranian Hostages, and the Presidential Election
The Problem of Public Opinion
Transforming Victims into Heroes
Public Opinion as Technological Constraint
Conclusion
Chapter 8 Democracy's Narrative: Living in Roosevelt's America
The Election of 1940
The People's Letters and Public Opinion
"Public" Opinion on the Third Term
Defining America
Conclusion: Forgotten Publics in a Land of Strangers
Chapter 9 The Rhetoric of Publicness: Theory and Method
Theoretical Considerations
Methodological Considerations
Appendix I: Chronology of Hostage Developments
Appendix II: Chronology of the 1980 Campaign
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ABOUT THE AUTHOR.