Rhetorical & Communication Theory Division

Visualizing Vernacular Discourse: A Silent Majority Confronts the Citizenship Practices of a Vocal Minority

I believe hegemony operates on conflict, but suggests stability. Therefore, 'citizenship' is an unstable element of hegemonic culture. Local community response to alternative citizenship practices is often

Toward a Poststructural Ideograph: An Unconventional Reading of McGee's Ideograph

This paper reads Michael Calvin McGee's ideograph from an unconventional (poststructuralist) perspective. While many scholars have used McGee's ideograph to reach important conclusions, this

The Circle, The Mirror, and the Rhetoric of Ingenium

Organizing his argument around the opposition between the circle and the mirror, Ernesto Grassi challenges us to reject all views of language as a self-enclosed system and to recognize rhetorical

Whence the Protestant Ethic? The Tension between Competing Economies of Worth in Christian Writings on Business and Economics

This paper investigates the continuing power of the Protestant ethic, at least at the within particular discourses. I am interested in analyzing contemporary Christian thinkers' attitudes toward