Description
The contributors highlight important and often different ways that public address works to expose problematics in ethical tensions - problematics of language and imagery, metaphor and character, genre and definition. The authors are also mindful of the tenuous relationship that exists between rhetoric and morality, between situated public address and a society's ethical foundations.
The essays in Public Address and Moral Judgment, on topics ranging from WWII propaganda to the civil rights rhetoric of President George H. W. Bush to the photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison, consider the powerful role of public discourse in the constitution of a moral code for the American people.
Book Information
ISBN 9780870138683
Author Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Format Hardback
Page Count 259
Imprint Michigan State University Press
Publisher Michigan State University Press