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Information, pleasure, and persuasion : how motivations function in talking politics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Scholars have long debated the role that communication plays in the formation and functioning of a democratic system. Philosopher John Dewey (1927) suggested that citizen-to-citizen talk serves as the very foundation of ...
Mugwumps and never trumps : the rhetoric of party bolting and party repair
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Political partisanship has long occupied a central position in the study of American political rhetoric, but scholarly understanding of intraparty political communication has lagged behind that of interparty conflict. While ...
Make America politically incorrect (again) : a genealogy with applications to the 2016 presidential campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
span of decades, political correctness has been systematically stretched and rearticulated to encompass a number of attitudes, behaviors, ideologies, and demands emanating from marginalized groups. As political correctness is almost always criticized...