Signs of protest rhetoric: From Logos to logistics in Luther's Ninety-Five Theses

Our paper conceptualizes protest rhetoric in order to theorize the underlying relationship between communication and subjectivity. We do this by highlighting how rhetorical protest challenges the sovereignty of voice. Our argument is that Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses is an example of a sign that protests. To make this argument, we use a materialist method from media studies that simultaneously examines the formal capacities of a sign that protests and maps its historical transformation. Our analysis opens with the two prevailing accounts of Luther's theses: disputation and dissemination. We extend both disputation and dissemination by placing them in a “universal history” of protest rhetoric that grounds many accepted critical rhetorical theories in specific systems of representation. Drawing together our findings, we conclude by urging the replacement of logos and logocentrism with the logistics of protest rhetoric in order to link together disputation and dissemination as a mechanism for both change and subjection.     

Tales of a Texas Cynic: Theodore O. Windt Remembered

In memory of Professor Ted Windt, this essay considers his significant contributions to rhetorical scholarship and pedagogy. It examines his unique contributions to our understandings of American presidential and protest rhetoric of the late 20th century, highlighting his application of Greek cynicism as explanatory schema for American protest rhetoric and then recounting Windt's framework for analyzing “crisis” rhetoric as appropriated by recent American presidents to advance their agendas. The essay then considers Windt's pedagogical perspectives and argues that Windt's teaching itself was acclaimed because it was rooted in the rhetorical and oratorical excellence. In conclusion, it is argued that Ted Windt was a unique and important rhetorical scholar and critic whose life and work provide lasting scholarly contributions and a robust model for achieving excellence in the college classroom.     

Faculty attitudes toward student protest

As part of a large-scale university survey, a random sample of faculty (75% of whom had had firsthand experience with serious student revolt) were asked for their reaction to a series of questions dealing with student protest — with the reasons for it, the kinds of student protest tactics employed, and the type of actions an administration might take to control it. Statistical comparisons were made between faculty, students, and administrators; and among faculty across disciplines to try to account for different attitudes. Findings suggest that faculty differ less among themselves than from other university constituent groups as to attitude about protest. They tend to distinguish sharply between dissent (which they support) and disruption (which they do not), and to favor responses to protest which keep the university open and functioning. Finally, the view is advanced that violent unrest is the unfortunate result of reciprocal escalation which can be avoided by attention to the causes of dissent rather than its dramatic manifestations.Revised and adapted from a paper delivered at the National Convention of the American Educational Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 1972     

One cause,two paths: Militant vs. adjustive strategies in the British and American women's suffrage movements

Although the suffrage movement in Britain and the United States shared a common goal and collaborated in an international effort to enfranchise women, they differed in rhetorical tone and protest tactics. This essay examines the ideological and material conditions that led to the strategic use of militancy by the British suffrage movement and non‐violence by its American counterpart. It further explores the role of class in shaping early women's movement rhetoric.     

International student recruitment to universities in England: discourse,rationales and globalisation

The recruitment of international students to universities in England has become a central issue in an era of globalisation for university administrators, senior managers, international offices and heads of schools and faculties. We examine the policy rationales for the recruitment of international students to England. Through the use of in‐depth interviews with key role players at four English universities, we compare the rhetoric, rationales and reasons for the recruitment of international students. A range of discourses can be identified in the recruitment of international students and an economic competition rationale is dominant. This is expressed within the discourse of globalisation.     

Defending the Community College Equity Agenda By Thomas Bailey and Vanessa Smith Morest

The current rhetoric around using data to improve community college student outcomes with only limited research on data-driven decision-making (DDDM) within postsecondary education compels a more comprehensive understanding of colleges’ capacity for using data to inform decisions. Based on an analysis of faculty and administrators’ perceptions and behaviors at 41 community colleges that participated in an initiative to improve student success, an argument is presented to include social capital as an explicit component of the capacity of community colleges for using data on student outcomes to increase student success. Building on Newmann, King, and Rigdon’s (1997) conceptualization of schools’ organizational capacity to meet accountability expectations and Smylie and Evans’ (2006) exploration of the role of Coleman’s (1988) social capital in policy implementation, this study found a relationship between the presence of forms of social capital as part of the organizational capacity for DDDM and the frequency and extent of data use among faculty and administrators. In light of research on organizational learning that suggests that social capital creates opportunities for the creation of new knowledge—such as possible solutions for persistent problems of student success—and research on organizational routines as mechanisms for change and preservation in organizations, this article concludes with recommendations for community colleges undertaking data-driven educational reform.     

(Re)Bordering the Civic Imaginary: Rhetoric,Hybridity, and Citizenship in La Gran Marcha

Though the drive to limit US citizenship often takes shape through the symbolic and material exclusion of “aliens,” immigrants also engage in rhetorical struggles over the limits of the US civic imaginary. This essay examines one such challenge to the bordering logics of US citizenship—La Gran Marcha, one of the largest immigration protests of 2006. Rather than see the protest as wholly “alien,” as it was conceived of by anti-immigrant forces, or as purely “American,” as an attempt for mere recognition, La Gran Marcha can best be understood as performing a hybrid US citizenship. This hybrid rhetoric problematizes contemporary understandings of citizenship and elucidates immigrants' agency within US democracy.     

La Ola Latina: Recent Scholarship in Latina/o and Latin American Rhetorics

For generations, critics have dismissed James Forman's “Black Manifesto” as a rhetorical failure. Such judgments tend to focus on the prophetic and retributive registers of the speech and fail to account for the full range of its ironic structuration. By examining the complex interchange of prophetic, retributive, and tragic registers through which the “Manifesto” is constructed, we can more fully appreciate how Forman created a space for his auditors to reflect and redirect the vengeful and violent sociohistorical drama seemingly otherwise implied. At the same time, it helps to explain why some black auditors embraced the leadership role Forman directed them to assume, while many whites reviled the supporting role to which they were consigned. Interpreting the speech in terms of the interplay of its multiple ironic registers invites us to focus attention on the ways in which ironic protest rhetoric operates in dialogue, holding both the ironist and the audience accountable for the productivity of their encounter.     

民事抗诉制度的必要性及其完善

就我国的实际情况而言,民事抗诉制度仍有存在的必要。对于这一制度,2007年10月修改的《民事诉讼法》尽管在抗诉事由等方面进行了完善,但在抗诉的客体范围、抗诉程序的启动之限制、抗诉的次数等方面有必要作进一步的完善。     

Politics,Identity, and College Protest: Then and Now

Kathryn Lynn Weiland, Amilcar Guzman, and KerryAnn O'Meara explore historical and contemporary student protest movements at three academic institutions and provide suggestions to educators on how to support students (and their learning) through their protest activities.     

民事行政抗诉案件中存在的问题及对策

分析了当前民事行政抗诉案件中存在的问题：抗诉范围过宽，抗诉效果不确定，证据滞后，以及上诉制度功能的弱化等。在此基础上，本提出了改革和完善抗诉制度的建议：限制抗诉时证据收集的范围，完善现有的抗诉程序，在抗诉对象上应进行调整，抗诉时间的调整。     

修辞学批评：走出技巧论

走出技巧层面的修辞学批评,一是向修辞诗学延伸。二是向修辞哲学延伸。前者研究文本的修辞设计和诗学关联;后者从话语方式向人的存在方式提升,研究修辞如何参与人的精神建构。结论是：人创造了修辞,修辞也塑造着人。     

Educational reform in Japan and its influence on teachers’ work

The 2002 restructuring of the national curriculum in all Japanese public elementary and secondary schools includes a reduction and reallocation of instructional hours, and the addition of a new “integrated studies” course, with an emphasis on more individualized, cross-curricular thematic projects. This reform comes at a time when a stagnant economy puts increased pressure on a shrinking youth population and on educators to obtain and preserve job security despite school closures and a weakened teacher's union.Teacher accountability includes contractual, professional, and moral accountability at a variety of interconnected levels. While the curriculum reform rhetoric frames the benefits of the plan primarily in terms of national and community-level outcomes, the strongest teacher accountability mechanisms seem to occur at the prefectural, school, and individual levels.At the national and prefectural levels, employment- and training-related mechanisms operate to ensure compliance with policy. At the community level, collegial, and political ties also impact teacher accountability, but in ways essentially consistent with national and prefectural expectations. At the school and individual levels, teacher obligations to administrators, parents, and students begin to confllict with teacher accountability to those at higher levels, primarily in terms of the traditions and expectations challenged by the reform policy.     

刑事抗诉程序中两类问题评析

刑事抗诉在司法实践中长期遭遇冷落是一个不容辩驳的事实.其中主要原因之一来自<刑事诉讼法>所设计的抗诉程序.分析二审抗诉程序中撤回抗诉制度和再审抗诉程序中指令再审制度存在的问题,并提出相应的对策,有利于刑事抗诉制度的完善.     

现代修辞学调查——论中西方现代修辞学的对接融合

一般认为,中国现代修辞学是借用了西方修辞学结构框架建立起来的一门学问.但自上世纪末开始,这种看法发生动摇.有人认为中西修辞学是完全不同的两种学问,有人则认为中国修辞学当初借来的结构体系是西方人弃之不用的东西.人们一直为这些疑问所困扰,对修辞学的发展前途感到迷惘.为了更清楚地辨别现代修辞学的发展方向,促进中国修辞学在新世纪的改革创新,本文对中西现代修辞学展开调查,以便认识两者的差距,从中找到修辞学科的发展空间.     

英汉广告语中的模糊修辞手法

模糊修辞是研究如何利用模糊语言来达到修辞效果的一门科学。文章以大量的实例为基础,从语音、词汇、句法及传统修辞格等角度分析了英汉广告语中的模糊修辞的构成手段。接着文章又讨论了广告语中的模糊修辞功效,最后总结指出此研究对为广告语言的创造提供良好的发展空间,促进了广告语言的发展。     

Youth representations of environmental protest

A necessary condition for a functioning democracy is the participation of its citizens, including its youth. This is particularly true for political participation in environmental decisions, because these decisions can have intergenerational consequences. In this article we examine young people’s beliefs about one form of political participation—protest—in the context of communities affected by fracking and associated anti-fracking protest, and discuss the implications of these representations for education. Drawing on focus groups with 121 young people (aged 15–19) in five schools and colleges near sites which have experienced anti-fracking protest in England and Northern Ireland, we find young people well-informed about avenues for formal and non-formal political participation against a background of disillusionment with formal political processes and varying levels of support for protest. We find representations of protest as disruptive, divisive, extreme, less desirable than other forms of participation and ineffective in bringing about change but effective in awareness-raising. These representations are challenging, not least because the way protest is interpreted is critical to the way people think and act in the world. These representations of environmental protest must be challenged through formal education in order to safeguard the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and ensure that the spirit of Article 11 of the UK Human Rights Act is protected.     

对外汉语修辞教学研究述评

文章初步综合和评价了20世纪90年代以来学界关于对外汉语修辞教学研究的主要观点及其得失。修辞教学最初在对外汉语中高级阶段得以提倡,随着讨论的不断深入,其在整个对外汉语教学阶段的地位和价值逐渐获得承认。同时,对外汉语教学实践中发现和解决的问题也在不断地反哺修辞本体研究。对外汉语教学与修辞学正形成良性互动局面。但直到现在,关乎对外汉语修辞教学学科体系建立的教学内容、教学方法、修辞习得等重大问题都仍停留在探索阶段,还有待做深入的研究。     

范晔文笔说及其渊源

范晔《后汉书》及《宋书·范晔传》中收录的《狱中与诸甥侄书》是两部重要的批评文献,其中有范晔对文学鲜明而深刻的见解。范晔首次将有韵、无韵的区别引入了“文”、“笔”的内涵,有从形式上（即有韵和无韵）来区分文笔之意,还有着重“文”轻“笔”的倾向。范晔关于文笔的思想在当时具有重要的意义且影响深远。     

美辞论的历史渊源及其文化背景

上世纪初从日本传入的修辞学美辞论的主张,实为我国自古以来的民族传统,自先秦到明清我国古代主流的修辞学理念恰是美辞论.美辞论是由中国传统的主流文化的性质决定的,正是儒家文化的周-鲁文化根源以及贵族化品质,美辞论才成为必然的修辞理论主张.