When Times Collide: Ward Churchill's Use of an Epideictic Moment to Ground Forensic Argument

Palczewski, Catherine Helen

doi:10.1080/00028533.2005.11821624

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“…Yet recent research also indicates that epideictic is a form that “potentially facilitates communication among people with different views” (Agnew, 2008, p. 147). In fact, epideictic rhetoric can be an important precursor to more deliberative discourse and can also foreground forensic communication (Marunowski, 2008, p. 53; Palczewski, 2005). With direct relevance to our research, a study of President Nixon’s 1972 trip to China even showed that epideictic and diplomatic rhetorics can combine to help bridge differences between nations (Yang, 2011).…”

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“…Rhetorical scholars have noted the persistence of the epideictic genre outside of ceremonial occasions to serve the social function of upholding communal values, supporting the status quo, and importantly, providing a platform to judge the speaker (rather than the content of the message; Danisch, 2006; Palczewski, 2005). While attention to epideictic is often located in studies of public address, the capacity of epideictic as a genre of making arguments may be uniquely suited to the performative contexts of social media discussion fora.…”

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Osipova

2013

American Behavioral Scientist

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The elections of president Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 provided pivotal moments in U.S. relations with foreign publics. Examining the kind of communication cultivated between public diplomacy practitioners and publics, this article focuses on social media discourse about the 2012 U.S. election posted to U.S. diplomacy efforts on Facebook. We analyze information generated by U.S. embassy sites in Bangladesh, Egypt, and Pakistan to understand the qualities of the communication engendered by these public diplomacy overtures, the nature of public argument via the media platform, and how the election served as a process to further contemporary U.S. public diplomacy. We found that the discussion that took place in response to the announcement of Obama’s reelection did not resemble a deliberative forum for debating U.S. foreign policy or regional implications. Rather, much of the messaging on these sites constituted what we term “spreadable epideictic.” Implications are charted for research and practice.

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Osipova

2013

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Controversies about commemorative sites open the door to a renegotiation of the past that is being commemorated. When epideictic (commemorative) moments and forensic (argumentative) moments intersect, “ … [t]he structure of commemoration, in which some version of the past is praised and made present, intersects with forensic norms of accusation, defense, and justification” (Palczewski, 2005:125). Landrieu's speech takes full advantage of this opportunity to renegotiate the past, as well as its relationship to current New Orleans, by explaining how the monuments functioned with their public spaces.…”

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“Lost Cause” Memories and Cultural Amnesias: Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Tragicomic Speech on Confederate Monument Removals

Carr

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective This essay examines the rhetorical strategies used in former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's speech explaining the city's decision to remove several Confederate memorials. Method The author performs a Burkean rhetorical analysis to the transcript and social context of Landrieu's May 19, 2017, speech. Additionally, the author applies frameworks of visual rhetoric, public memory, and third persona to engage Landrieu's construction of the memorials’ meaning and their amnesias. Results Landrieu used identification, a nuanced commemorative rhetorical analysis, and a comic frame to explain both the lure and the damaging falsehood of the Lost Cause narrative that the memorials represent. He reserved the tragic frame for those who continue to support the Lost Cause narrative. Conclusions In this rhetorical move, Landrieu divides monument supporters between those explicitly tied to the Confederate cause of white supremacy—these people are consciously evil—and those who have been hoodwinked by the monuments’ narrative—for these people, he offers redemption. The tragicomic frame made Landrieu's speech well received nationally and revealed promise through its distinction between supporters of white supremacy and passive adopters of the memorials’ narratives. However, it did not appear to persuade monument supporters, revealing the limitations of an agency‐centered approach to combating the Lost Cause narrative.

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Critical Intercultural Communication, Remembrances of George Washington Williams, and the Rediscovery of Léopold II's “Crimes Against Humanity”

Hasian

2010

The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication

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When Times Collide: Ward Churchill's Use of an Epideictic Moment to Ground Forensic Argument

Cited by 12 publications

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“Lost Cause” Memories and Cultural Amnesias: Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Tragicomic Speech on Confederate Monument Removals

Critical Intercultural Communication, Remembrances of George Washington Williams, and the Rediscovery of Léopold II's “Crimes Against Humanity”

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