Rhetoric Society Quarterly Jan 2025

Dead Man’s Switch: Blame and Causality in the Epideictic Scenes of Disaster

Daniel P. Richards North-West State Technical University
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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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2025-01-01
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10.1080/02773945.2024.2430550
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