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Do We Really Have Nothing to Be Sorry For? : A Critical Rhetorical Exploration of Public Apology in Higher Education

McDonald, Ashley
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7552-3891
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1563294841702964

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2019, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Communication.
The purpose of this study is to look at the themes and commonalities between apology and public statements of apology to show the patterns of apologetic rhetoric. Specifically, it examines in detail major Midwestern universities and racist violations that took place on those campuses between enrolled students. Through both a critical rhetorical and a critical-cultural lens, it is established that the responses to these acts refuses to acknowledge the trauma that they cause which leads to community breakdown and tensions. A critical analysis of several apology texts uses the criteria of apologia established by both rhetorical and image repair scholars. Each of the chapters exists both through a common theme of apologia and how damaging it can be in its support and threading to white supremacist structures, but also as separate attempts to understand and theorize about what it means to grapple with these violations from the perspective and the limitations of a public university community member.
Ronald Jackson II, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Debra Merchant, J.A. (Committee Member)
Shaunak Sastry, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
100 p.
Communication
Apologia; Higher Education; Rhetorical Analysis; Race and Racism; Image Repair; Restorative Justice

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  • McDonald, A. (2019). Do We Really Have Nothing to Be Sorry For? : A Critical Rhetorical Exploration of Public Apology in Higher Education [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1563294841702964

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McDonald, Ashley. Do We Really Have Nothing to Be Sorry For? : A Critical Rhetorical Exploration of Public Apology in Higher Education. 2019. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1563294841702964.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McDonald, Ashley. "Do We Really Have Nothing to Be Sorry For? : A Critical Rhetorical Exploration of Public Apology in Higher Education." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1563294841702964

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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