JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics
1180 articles2001
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Subjects: 'Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World', Lisa Buranen, Alice M. Roy, contemporary
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Subjects: 'Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter', Diane D. Davis
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Subjects: 'Passing and Pedagogy: The Dynamics of Responsibility', Pamela L. Caughie, pedagogy
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Subjects: 'Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres', Rosa A. Eberly, public sphere
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'Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention' [book review] ↗Subjects: 'Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention', Cynthia L. Selfe
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Subjects: 'Spurious Coin: A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing', Bernadette Longo
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Subjects: two-year, junior college, social movement, social-class, workforce,
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Subjects: revolution, 1960s, 'happenings', revolutionary
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Abstract
In order to examine how disability has been socially constructed historically and rhetorically, Barton conducts a critical-discourse analysis of the first thirty years of Reader's Digest (1922-1952). Interrogating the ways in which disability is represented and referred, Barton discusses how Digest in the 1920's followed eugenics discourse and in the 1940s took a brief stance towards disability rights. Yet overall, Barton finds that Digest puts forth a 'double-discourse' that presents the disabled as a group qualified by lack and necessary of concern,. With these qualifications in mind, the Digest further calls for disabled people to be assimilated within society. The article argues that although the assimilationist rhetoric in Digest is limited in that it does not challenge the status quo of society, further analysis of these discursive changes over time does have the potential to reveal how positive contributions might be made in American culture. (See Lewiecki-Wilson 2001) [Tara Wood, Margaret Price, & Chelsea Johnson, Disability studies, WPA-CompPile Bibliographies, No. 19]
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Subjects: film, pedagogy, politics, pedagogy
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Subjects: Zizek, paradox
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Subjects: popular-culture, cultural, pedagogy, Lacan
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Slovoj Zizek's naked politics: Opting for the impossible, a secondary elaboration [reader response] ↗Subjects: Slovoj Zizek
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Subjects: theory, fetish, fantasy
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Subjects: Thomas Rickert
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Subjects: process, critique, disruptive, disruptive
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Subjects: 'The Digital Dialectic', Peter Lunenfeld, 'Othermindedness', Michael Joyce, 'Remediation' Jay David Bolter, Richard Grusin
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Subjects: 'The Rhetoric of Midwifery: Gender, Knowledge, Power', Mary Lay, 'Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction', Laura Gurak, Clare Gravon, Cynthia Myntti
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Subjects: 'Terms of Work for Composition: A Materialist Critique', Bruce Horner
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Subjects: 'Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language', Stephen Parks, professional movement
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Subjects: 'Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language', Stephen Parks, professional movement
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Subjects: 'Beyond Ebonics: Racial Pride and Linguistic Prejudice', by John Baugh, AAVE
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Subjects: 'We Are Coming': The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women', Shirley Wilson Logan, 19th-century, 19th-century, persuasive
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Subjects: Alan W. France, memorial
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Subjects: Alan W. France, memorial
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Subjects: Alan W. France, memorial
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Subjects: Alan W. France, memorial
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Subjects: Alan W. France, memorial
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Subjects: Alan W. France, memorial
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Subjects: Alan W. France, memorial
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Subjects: Alan W. France, memorial
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Subjects: Alan W. France, memorial
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Subjects: Alan W. France, memorial
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Subjects: ideology, critique, theory, pedagogy, English-profession
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Subjects: 'biorhetoric', body, change
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Subjects: disability, pedagogy
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Subjects: professionalization, graduate, program, doctoral
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Subjects: historiography, Rebecca Brittenham
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Subjects: generational, history, composition-studies
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Subjects: revisionist history
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Subjects: 'Fight Club', queer, representations, representation
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Abstract
Lewiecki-Wilson critiques Barton's argument that the assimilationist rhetoric in Reader's Digest can be progressive by noting that the highlighted aspects of the narratives maintain the conservative ideology of the time. Lewiecki-Wilson argues that in reality, assimilationist rhetoric reinforces the hegemony of the norm by failing to focus on the rights of people with disabilities or present diversity and depth in representation. [Tara Wood, Margaret Price, & Chelsea Johnson, Disability studies, WPA-CompPile Bibliographies, No. 19]
Subjects: disability-rights, Reader's Digest, assimilationist, narrative, ideology, conservatism, diversity, representation -
Subjects: 'On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays, 1975-1998'; 'The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse'
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Composition's honored articles: A reflection on the Braddock and Kinneavy award winners [book review] ↗Subjects: 'On Writing Research: The Braddock Essay, 1975-1998'; 'The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse', Braddock award, Kinneavy award
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Subjects: 'Know and Tell', David Bleich, 'Worlds Apart', Patrick Dias, genre
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Subjects: 'Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution', Peter McLaren, pedagogy, revolutionary
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Subjects: 'Chomsky on MisEducation', Noam Chomsky, Donaldo Macedo
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Subjects: 'Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches', Christian R. Weisser, Sidney I. Dobrin, pedagogy
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Subjects: 'Writing Partnerships: Service Learning in Composition', Thomas Deans
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'A Group of Their Own: College Writing Courses and American Women Writers, 1880-1940' [book review] ↗Subjects: 'A Group of Their Own: College Writing Courses and American Women Writers, 1880-1940', Katherine H. Adams