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| Central States Speech Journal | 4 |
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Peer reviewedShafer, George – Central States Speech Journal, 1978
The dramaturgical dimensions of the "theater of fact" as found in two anti-war plays, "Discourse on Viet Nam" by Peter Weiss and "Xa: A Vietnam Primer" by the ProVisional Theatre are examined. In these plays the author finds that Vietnamese history becomes rhetorical testament in arguments against United States…
Descriptors: Credibility, Drama, Historical Criticism, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedMcKerrow, Ray E. – Central States Speech Journal, 1977
Examines the symbolic import of Truman's rhetoric of victory in support of U.S. intervention in Korea. (MH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Presidents, Rhetoric
Peer reviewedBytwerk, Randall L. – Central States Speech Journal, 1978
The rhetoric of the final four months of Hitler's Reich is examined, including arguments that Germany could still win the war based on moral and logical grounds, and later appeals based on source credibility, historical analogy, and terror. (JF)
Descriptors: Credibility, Nationalism, Politics, Propaganda
Peer reviewedRickert, William E. – Central States Speech Journal, 1977
Examines Churchill's use of archetypal metaphors in his speeches from 1930 to 1945. (MH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Metaphors, Rhetoric
