pp. "Title," Author
Keynote Address
1 "Values: Providing Standards for Audience-Centered Argumentation," Malcolm O. Sillars
Keynote Theme Panel: Perspectives on the Audience
7 "Audience in The New Rhetoric and the Formal Appeals," Jeanne Fahnestock
12 "The Constitution of Rhetoric's Audience," Maurice Charland
16 "Audience Argue," Robert L. Scott and Robert A. Brookey
The Functions of Myth in Political Argument
21 "If God Prosper Us: Daniel Webster and the Historical Foundations of American Nationalism," James R. Andrews
28 "Utopia and Desire," James Darsey
36 "Christian Tradition, Jeffersonian Democracy, and the Myth of the Sentimental Family:
An Exploration of the Premises of Social Conservative Argumentation," Ronald Lee and Loren Murfield
Bringing Coherence to the Study of Argument
43 "Writing Home About Argumentation Theory," Frans H. van Eemeren
49 "Striking a Balance Between Monolithic and Idiosyncratic Conceptions of Argument in
Social Science Research on Argument," Dennis S. Gouran
54 "Coherence in Argumentation Studies: Can the Center Hold?" David Zarefsky
60 "Good Centers Do Not Hold, They Rebound," Charles Arthur Willard
Impact of Argument Theory on Policy Arenas
63 "Law, Social Science and the First Amendment," Dale A. Herbeck
71 "Argumentation in Urban Public and Not-for-Profit Management," David S. Birdsell
75 "Technical Sphere Competition in Communication Policy: The Reemergence of the Public Sphere," Carol K. Winkler and Douglas A. Barthlow
79 "Epistemological Pragmatism: Richard Rorty, Liberal Ironism, and the Conduct of Academic Debate," Robert E. Tucker an John C. Day
84 "Scholarship of Argumentation and the Limits of Influence," Thomas J. Hynes, Jr.
Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Study of Argumentation
88 "Argument Quality and Persuasive Effects: A Review of Current Approaches," Daniel J. O'Keefe and Sally Jackson
93 "Multi-State versus Singe-Stage Coding of Small Group Argument: A Preliminary Comparative Analysis," Renee A. Meyers and Dale Brashers
101 "Concord and Controversy: Some Implications of Using Biology and Law as Metaphors for Social Opposition Argument," David M. Cheshier
The National Debate Tournament at 50: In Celebration and Evaluation
114 "The NDT at Fifty: An Intergenerational Perspective," Frank Harrison
119 "The National Debate Tournament at Fifty: Decades of Permanence and Change," Donn W. Parson
122 "The NDT and Information Processing: the Decay of Dialogue," Lee R. Polk
125 "Mirrors: NDT and the Communication Discipline," George Ziegelmueller
Intercollegiate Forensics and the Electronic Information Revolution
128 "The Changing Face of Community: The Impact of Electronic List-Serves on Argument Within the Debate Community," Scott Harris
133 "Arguing Across Spheres: The Impact of Electronic LISTSERVs on Public Sphere Argument," Jeffrey Jarman
139 "The Influence of Electronic Databases on Contemporary Debate Practice: Considerations of Argument Selection, Fiat, and Evidentiary Standards," Ronald Wastyn and Gordon Stables
143 "Electronic Research: The Impact on Arguments in Individual Events," K. Jeanine Congalton and Clark D. Olson
144 "Surfing the Net: Applications of Computer Networks to Competitive Forensics," Arnie Madsen
In Law
152 "Segregation in per se Inequality: The Text of Justice J. Waties Waring," Kathleen M. Farrell
157 "Emmett Till and the Rhetoric of Racial Injustice," William Lewis
164 "Race, Transcendence and Voting Rights: Colorblind Argument in Shaw v. Reno," Carrie Crenshaw and Arthur A. Raney
170 "Feminist Jurisprudence and Legal Structures," Mark B. DeLoach
176 "Definitional Argument: Approaching a Theory," Catherine Helen Palczewski
In Public Discourse and Policy Debate
187 "Arguments from Ignorance in Multicultural Discourse," Michael Weiler
191 "Malthusian World(s): Globalization, Race and the American Imaginary in the Immigration Debates of the Twentieth Century," Ronald Walter Greene
196 "Disassociating Myth and Practice: Pete Wilson's Campaign against Immigration," Greg Miller and Brad Lotterman
204 "And Equality for All: The Foundations of African American Civil Rights Argument," Kirt H. Wilson
213 "Debate as Victim: The Impact of Journalism upon Public Argument in the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968," John Bakke and Michael Osborn
219 "Woman as 'Object' in the Welfare Debate: Victims or Scapegoats?" Barbara Pickering
226 "Decorum: The Flight from the Rhetorical," Melissa D. Deem
In Arts & Literature
230 "The Polemicist as Artist: W. E. B. DuBois' 'of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others," Robert Terill and Michael Leff
237 "Re-Fashioning a Reasonable Aesthetic: A Case Study in the Transformation of American Modernalism through Argument in African American Art," Eric K. Watts
The Place of Argument in the National Conversation
242 "Creating Places for Dialogic Argument in the National Conversation," W. Barnett Pearce
250 "Is there a Place for Argument in the 'National Conversation'?: A View from the National Issues Forums," Michael Osborn and Suzanne Osborn
The Public Sphere
254 "Democratizing the Lifeworld of the 21st Century: Evaluating New Democratic Sites for Argument," Patricia Riley, James F. Klumpp, and Thomas Hollihan
261 "The Decline of the Public Sphere of Deliberative Argument: Trials as Public Argument and their Subjugation to the Expediency of the Private Plea Bargaining Process," John C. Day and Robert E. Tucker
267 "Reconsidering Habermas' Conception of Performance," E. Ann Laffoon
274 "No One Has Ever Died from Contradictions': Argumentation in a Rhetorical Lifeworld," Lenore Langsdorf
281 "Rhetoric of <Family Values> and the Public Sphere," Dana Cloud
Crisis Communication
290 "The Origins of Corporate Apologia: Dow Chemical and the Napalm Controversy," Susan Schultz Huxman
296 "The Arrogance and Its Agony: The Importance of Understanding the Argumentative Dimensions of Crisis Communication," W. Timothy Coombs, Robert C. Chandler, and Sherry J. Holladay
Proceduralism
302 "Disagreement and Democratic Pluralism," Darrin Hicks
308 "The Aporia of Proceduralism," Brian McGee and Gregory Simerly
314 "Meta-Procedure: The Bases for Challenging the Operative Norms of Argument," Kenneth T. Broda-Bahm
Procedural Designs
321 "Proposals, Rationales, and Criticism in the Engineering Design Process," Barbara J. O'Keefe and Susan Dun
326 "How Should Academics Talk about Ideas?" Karen Tracy
335 "Improving Decision-Making in the Group: Arguing with Constructive Intent," Sandra M. Ketrow and Beatrice Schultz
Case Studies of Argumentative Procedures
344 "The Clayoquot Sound Controversy: News Coverage and Public Deliberation of Environmental Issues," Dan Maher and Scott Jacobs
349 "When Old Social Technologies Meet Modern Problems; The Science Court Model for Managing Expert Disagreement," Mark Aakhus
356 "Non-Expert Expertise: Chronicling the Success of AIDS and Breast Cancer Activists," Charlene Melcher
Evidence
362 "Storytelling and Judgement in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem," Mark A. Pollock
371 "Depiction as Argumentative Strategy in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring," Perthenia Eilers
378 "Is the Proof in the Photograph?: Uses of Nineteen Century Reform Photography," Kristin Davis
383 "Are Public Opinion Polls Used Illegitimately? 47% Say Yes," Tyler R. Harrison
389 "What Makes an Argument Scientific?: Using Scientific Standards for Evidence in the Courts," P. Anand Rao
397 "The Evaluation of Scientific Evidence on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill," Terence Check
Reasoning
403 "Roosevelt and Unconditional Surrender: An Analogy that Held," Robert P. Newman
408 "Argument Through Example: An Exploration and Case Study," Ann M. Hartney
413 "The Synecdochic and Metonymic Processes and the Political Image Construct," Arnie Madsen
Argumentative Choice
421 "It's Not My Fault': Argument Strategies for Managing Pregnancy Loss," Nancy J. Legge and Elaine Bass Jenks
430 "The Careful Use of Confrontation," Ann House
434 "Perceiving and Predicting the Tendency to Personalize Arguments," Dale Hample, Judith M. Dallinger, and Janko S. B. Fofana
Argumentation as Constitutive of Society
439 "Identity Arguments in New Social Movement Rhetoric," Susan Whalen and Gerard A. Hauser
447 "Rhetoric, Judgement and the Politics of Incommensurability," John M. Sloop and Kent A. Ono
456 "Criticism as Rational: An Argument from Disciplinary Integrity," Craig Smith
461 "Exhuming Protagoras: Sophistic Argumentation and the Foundations of Rhetorical Theory," Geoffrey D. Klinger
467 "Rhetoric and Cultural Studies: Arguments and Argument-Analogies," James Crosswhite
Close Readings of Lochner v. New York
471 "Presence and Absence in Lochner: Making Rights Real," Eileen A. Scallen
472 "The Argumentative Creation on Individual Liberty," Warren Sandmann
481 "Preaching the Constitution," William Wiethoff
485 "On the Rhetorical Criticism of Judge Posner," James Aune
The Gulf War Debate
489 "Tragic Fear in Rhetorical Republic: American Hubris and the Demonization of Saddam Hussein," Robert L. Ivie
493 "Post-Realism, Just War, and the Gulf War Debate," Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman
498 "Demonization, Public Opinion, and the Gulf War," J. Michael Hogan
Explaining Inexplicable Belief
501 "Answering Hitler: A Discussion of What Liberals Must Believe About Persuasion," Eric M. Gander
505 "Belief Fixation in the Cold Fusion Conroversy," Philip Thomson
Actions and Requirements
509 "On the Difference Between Assumptions and Presumptions," Fred Kauffeld
515 "'But' as a Marker of Counterargumentative and Concessive Relations," Francisca Snoeck Henkemans
519 "Locating Fallacies and Reconstructing Arguments," Alan Aldrich
525 "The Burden of Going Forward with the Argument: Argumentative Relevance in Pragma-Dialectics," Harry Weger Jr. and Scott Jacobs
532 "Hey, Don't Do That!: The Use of Argument as Social Support at a Crisis Intervention Center," Barry Liss
The Delivery of Public Argument in a Time of Many Media
539 "Unstated Propositions: Relationships Among Verbal, Visual and Acoustic Languages," Bruce E. Gronbeck
543 "How Music and Image Deliver Argument in Political Advertisements on Television," John S. Nelson and G. R. Boynton
550 "Speaking About Dying," Francis A. Beer and G. R. Boynton
557 "Visual Politics: Mythic Persuasion Through Experience in Campaign Advertising on Television," John S. Nelson
Jackson, Sally, ed. Argumentation and Values: Proceedings of the Ninth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation. Annandale VA: Speech Communication Association, 1995.