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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"A timely rhetorical exploration of divisionary bounds that divide an Us from a Them. To see anew the many lines that unite, divide, and define us, the essays highlight how discourse at borders and boundaries can create or thwart conditions for establishing identity and admitting difference"--Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Democratic discourse and lines across America / Barbara Couture and Patti Wojahn -- Metonymic borders and our sense of nation / Victor Villanueva -- Continuity and contact in a cosmopolitan world : code-switching and its effects on community identity / Christopher Schroeder -- Humor's role in political discourse : examining border patrol in "Colbert nation" / Jonathan P. Rossing -- Employing ethos to cross the borders of difference: teaching civil discourse / Karen P. Peirce -- Crossing linguistic borders in the classroom : moving beyond English-only to tap rich linguistic resources / Anita C. Hernández, José A. Montelongo, and Roberta J. Herter -- Traversing rhetorical borders of spirituality in an academic setting / Susan A. Schiller -- Difference as rhetorical stance : developing meaningful interactions and identification across racial and ethnic lines / Monica Torres and Kathryn Valentine -- "I am the 99 percent" : identification and division in the rhetorics of the Occupy Wall Street protests / Randolph Cauthen -- American rhetorics of disappearance : translocal feminist problem-solving rhetorics / Tricia C. Serviss -- "A melting pot that's constantly being stirred" : rhetorics of race and tolerance at a regional museum / Cori Brewster -- De pie sobre la valla y mirando por la ventana : border realities of the immigrant experience / Vanessa Cozza -- Fostering inclusive dialogue in emergent university-community partnerships : setting the stage for intercultural inquiry / Elenore Long, Jennifer Clifton, Andrea Alden, and Judy Holiday -- Rhetorical education at the city's edge : the challenge of public rhetoric in suburban America / Robert Brooke -- In sum and review : the rhetoric of lines across us / Barbara Couture and Patti Wojahn. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Communication in politics -- United States.
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Communication in politics. |
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United States. |
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects. |
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Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Rhetoric -- Social aspects. |
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Rhetoric. |
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Democracy -- United States.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. |
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Democracy. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Couture, Barbara, editor.
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Wojahn, Patti, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Crossing borders, drawing boundaries 9781607324027 (DLC) 2015050083 (OCoLC)910334499 |
| ISBN |
9781607324034 (electronic book) |
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1607324032 (electronic book) |
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9781607324027 |
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1607324024 |
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