Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation

Christian Kock is Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication at the University of Copenhagen. Lisa S. Villadsen is Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Rhetoric in the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication at the University of Copenhagen.

“Anyone who has been reading in rhetoric and democracy and has an interest in ways of pushing the deliberative democracy model forward will agree that this volume enters that conversation, addresses key issues, and offers fresh insights and approaches that warrant further work of this kind.”—Robert L. Ivie, Indiana University

• ContentsIntroduction: Citizenship as a Rhetorical PracticeChristian Kock and Lisa S. Villadsen Section ITracing Rhetorical Citizenship as Concept and Practice1Deliberative Democracy: Mapping Out the Deliberative Turn in Democratic TheoryKasper Møller Hansen 2The Making of Truth in Debate: The Case of (and a Case for) the Early SophistsManfred Kraus3The Search for “Real” Democracy: Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation in France and the United States, 1870–1940William Keith and Paula CossartSection IIPublic Deliberation as Rhetorical PracticePart 1Considering Norms of Communicative Behavior4The Respect Fallacy: Limits of Respect in Public DialogueItalo Testa5Dialectical Citizenship? Some Thoughts on the Role of Pragmatics in the Analysis of Public DebateNiels Møller Nielsen6Provocative Style: The Gaarder Debate ExampleMarie Lund Klujeff7Virtual Deliberations: Talking Politics Online in HungaryIldikó KaposiPart 2Critiques of “Elite” Discourse8Dis-playing Democracy: The Rhetoric of DuplicityKristian Wedberg9Rhetoric of War, Rhetoric of GenderBerit von der Lippe10Speaking of Terror: Norms of Rhetorical Citizenship in Danish Public DiscourseLisa S. Villadsen11“This May Be the Law, but Should It Be?” Tony Blair’s Rhetoric of ExceptionBart van Klink and Oliver W. LembckePart 3Rhetorical Citizenship Across Communicative Settings12I Agree, but . . . : Finding Alternatives to Controversial Projects Through Public DeliberationJames McDonald13Deliberation as Behavior in PublicTatiana Tatarchevskiy14Homing in on the Arguments: The Rhetorical Construction of Subject Positions in Debates on the Danish Real Estate Market Sine Nørholm Just and Jonas Gabrielsen15Danish Revue: Satire as Rhetorical CitizenshipJette Barnholdt Hansen Section IIIToward Better Deliberative Practices16Presidential Primary Debate as a Genre of Journalistic Discourse: How Can We Put Debate into the Debates?John Adams and Stephen West17A Tool for Rhetorical Citizenship: Generalizing the Status SystemChristian Kock18Potential and Problems of Deliberative Debate: Interpretive Debates RevisitedGeorgia WarnkeAbout the ContributorsIndex