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The Cultural Rhetorics of After-Dinner Speaking
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Wright, Courtney J.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1467997152
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Year and Degree
2016, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Media and Communication.
Abstract
The following study investigates the genre of after-dinner speaking (ADS) as articulated within US public discourse in the twentieth-century. Though ADS is an integral facet of speech communication pedagogy and was, in the early twentieth-century, the most popular site of public address outside of pulpit oratory, because the genre is identified as a form of epideictic oratory for the personal sphere, the history of the genre is obfuscated. This dissertation argues that during the early twentieth-century ADS provided a space for the expression of nineteenth-century platform oratorical culture in the banquet halls of the twentieth-century US urban landscape. As a central part of this historical moment of US rhetorical and political culture, ADS functioned to remediate platform oratorical traditions and provide opportunities for cultural identification.
Committee
Alberto Gonzalez, PhD (Advisor)
John Dowd, PhD (Committee Member)
Ellen Gorsevski, PhD (Committee Member)
Douglas Forsyth, PhD (Other)
Pages
228 p.
Subject Headings
Communication
Keywords
rhetoric
;
after-dinner speaking
;
cultural rhetorics
;
Kenneth Burke
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Wright, C. J. (2016).
The Cultural Rhetorics of After-Dinner Speaking
[Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1467997152
APA Style (7th edition)
Wright, Courtney.
The Cultural Rhetorics of After-Dinner Speaking.
2016. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1467997152.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Wright, Courtney. "The Cultural Rhetorics of After-Dinner Speaking." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1467997152
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