David A Frank
Biographic Data
| ID | 3877526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Frank |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Frank |
| SIGNATURE | FRANK D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0963-2787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Racial, Ethnic, and Sex Differences in Need and Receipt of Support for Social Needs Among Veterans
This study found that there was wide variation in the health-related social need domains in which VHA race, ethnicity, and sex subpopulations reported needing support. Applying an intersectional lens when evaluating social needs lays the groundwork for equity-guided social care interventions in the VHA
A longitudinal investigation of breastfeeding planning, initiation, and duration among individuals with pre-pregnancy overweight or obesity
are less likely to initiate and continue breastfeeding than are those with BMIs<25. Given the intergenerational health benefits of breastfeeding, it is important to understand breastfeeding behaviors and their correlates among individuals with BMIs≥25. Thus, in an observational cohort with BMI≥25 (N = 237), we aimed to characterize longitudinal relationships among breastfeeding planning, initiation, and duration and their sociodemographic/clinica…
The Origins of the Jewish Rhetorical Tradition
J. B. McLachlan Fills Out a Questionnaire, 1931
In Moscow, at the offices of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, it is 23 December 1931.A veteran leader of the coal miners in Nova Scotia, J. B. McLachlan, is filling out a questionnaire.The five typed pages are addressed to "Leading Workers of the Parties and International Organisations."They ask about background, social position, political experience, and public activity.At this time, McLachlan is in his early 60s, a "grand…
The Origins of and Possible Futures for Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Dissociation of Concepts
This essay tells the story of Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's “dissociation of concepts,” which they introduced in 1958 and is in use as a tool of criticism by many rhetorical critics. The story begins in England with John Locke's development of associative reasoning in 1770 and then moves to France, with Remy de Gourmont extending associative reasoning with the concept of dissociation in 1899. Gourmont's dissociation crosses the Atlantic and is …
The Complicity of Racial and Rhetorical Pessimism
Research Article| September 01 2020 The Complicity of Racial and Rhetorical Pessimism: The Coherence and Promise of the Long Civil Rights Movement David A. Frank David A. Frank David A. Frank is Professor of Rhetoric in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, Eugene. He thanks Professor John Hatch and Charley Leistner for their help in constructing this manuscript. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google…
Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama
Book Review| June 01 2018 Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship. By Robert E. Terrill. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015; pp. 224. $39.99 cloth; $38.99 e-book. David A. Frank David A. Frank University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Publ…
Syngman Rhee, Robert T. Oliver, and the Symbolic Construction of the Republic of Korea during the Global Cold War
Robert T. Oliver, a professor of speech at Pennsylvania State University, served as a ghostwriter for Syngman Rhee, the first president of the Republic of South Korea between 1943 and 1960. Within the larger context of an ongoing global Cold War and the division of the Korean peninsula in August 1945, Oliver and Rhee developed a foundational myth, Puk-jin Tongil (), to build the new nation of South Korea. The Puk-jin Tongil myth called for a reun…
Facing Moloch
During his first term as president, Barack Obama delivered four national eulogies at the sites of gun violence tragedies, two of which garnered considerable national attention: one delivered in Tucson, Arizona on January 12, 2011 (following the attack on Representative Gabrielle Giffords and an assembled crowd), and another in Newtown, Connecticut on December 16, 2012 (following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School). The deaths of innocen…
Obama’s Rhetorical Signature
Drawing on his two books, Dreams from my Father and The Audacity of Hope, the prophetic African American Christian mythic system, and a rhetoric of argumentative reason, Barack Obama developed literary, mythic, and rhetorical signatures during his campaign for president. His signatures recast binary oppositions and answered questions of identity with a set of dissociations, rhetorical acts intended to transform the relationship between contraries…
Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric
The New Rhetoric project featured an eleven-year collaboration between Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca and Chaïm Perelman, which culminated with their 1958 magnum opus, Traité de l'argumentation: la nouvelle rhétorique. Scholars have long speculated about Olbrechts-Tyteca's role in the New Rhetoric project and her relationship with Chaïm Perelman. Building from the work of Barbara Warnick, a synchronic and diachronic analysis of their collaboration yields…
A Traumatic Reading of Twentieth-Century Rhetorical Theory
In this essay, I seek to read the rhetorical theories set forth by Belgians Chaïm Perelman and Paul de Man as responses to the Holocaust. To accomplish this aspiration, I draw from Dominick LaCapra's framework for the analysis of trauma and its expression in historical and theoretical texts. Reading the rhetorical theories of Perelman and de Man, two of the most prominent of the twentieth century, through a lens of trauma theory allows critics to…
First Philosophies and Regressive Philosophy
A number of metaphysicians, including Bergson and Heidegger, consider metaphysics the only knowledge of consequence and use the word to refer to their own philosophies. But a large number of eminent metaphysicians, among them Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Fichte and Hegel had only disdain for metaphysics and used the word to discredit the philosophy of their adversaries. D'Alembert (602-604) once noted that those referred to as metaphysicians had lit…
Shared Land/Conflicting Identity
This work presents the argument that rhetoric, ideology and myth have played key roles in influencing the development of the 100-year conflict between first the Zionist settlers and now the Israeli people and the Palestinian residents in what is now Israel
Jerusalem and the riparian simile
Colliers across the Sea
The mutability of rhetoric
This essay draws from Edwin Black's Rhetorical Questions to illuminate the role of mutability in rhetoric, consciousness, and social idioms as it is displayed in Haydar ‘Abd al‐Shafi's speech delivered at the Madrid conference on October 31, 1991. Shaft's speech represents a significant mutation in Palestinian discourse. In this speech, the symbolic mold and the hereditarian social idioms that had controlled the Palestinian narrative until the in…
The new rhetoric, Judaism, and post‐enlightenment thought
In search of justice, Chaim Perelman rediscovered the rhetorical tradition and reclaimed his Jewish identity after World War II. As an attempt to correct misreadings of Perelmanian thought and to situate the New Rhetoric as a response to post-Enlightenment and postmodern culture, I advance two arguments in this essay. First, Perelman's philosophy and the New Rhetoric project reflect his Jewish heritage and Talmudic habits of argument. Second, bec…
The Labour Stamp
IT IS OFTEN SAID that you can leam much about a country's history and culture from its postage stamps. Pierre Berton, for instance, has written that on postage stamps great milestones of the past in Canadian history all been recorded in miniature. A closer examination demonstrates that postage stamps have usually presented a selective reading of the public identity and that some narratives are privileged and others are neglected. In a recent stud…
On the study of ancient Chinese rhetoric/Bian
N his In Defence of Rhetoric, Brian Vickers (1988) calls rhetoricalscholars to recapture the rhetorical past, rhetorical theories, andpractices developed by schools and individuals of different cultures. Thestudy of in the West has featured primarily Occidental tradi-tions, although Western scholars have made attempts to introduce,explain, and explore the of other cultures. Chinese rhetoric, inparticular, has received some attention from some Wes…
Shalom Achshav”— Rituals of the Israeli peace movement
Rhetorical critics have ignored the study of non‐western movements and have not paid serious attention to the construction of theories which help to explain and interpret the rhetorical form of movements. This study attempts to fill both voids by synthesizing concepts from rhetorical theory and anthropology to explain the linguistic process which made up the Israeli peace movement. An assessment of the rhetorical strategies, a listing of the indi…
On the study of ancient Chinese rhetoric/Bian
N his In Defence of Rhetoric, Brian Vickers (1988) calls rhetoricalscholars to recapture the rhetorical past, rhetorical theories, andpractices developed by schools and individuals of different cultures. Thestudy of in the West has featured primarily Occidental tradi-tions, although Western scholars have made attempts to introduce,explain, and explore the of other cultures. Chinese rhetoric, inparticular, has received some attention from some Wes…
Facing Moloch
During his first term as president, Barack Obama delivered four national eulogies at the sites of gun violence tragedies, two of which garnered considerable national attention: one delivered in Tucson, Arizona on January 12, 2011 (following the attack on Representative Gabrielle Giffords and an assembled crowd), and another in Newtown, Connecticut on December 16, 2012 (following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School). The deaths of innocen…
Shalom Achshav”— Rituals of the Israeli peace movement
Rhetorical critics have ignored the study of non‐western movements and have not paid serious attention to the construction of theories which help to explain and interpret the rhetorical form of movements. This study attempts to fill both voids by synthesizing concepts from rhetorical theory and anthropology to explain the linguistic process which made up the Israeli peace movement. An assessment of the rhetorical strategies, a listing of the indi…
Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric
The New Rhetoric project featured an eleven-year collaboration between Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca and Chaïm Perelman, which culminated with their 1958 magnum opus, Traité de l'argumentation: la nouvelle rhétorique. Scholars have long speculated about Olbrechts-Tyteca's role in the New Rhetoric project and her relationship with Chaïm Perelman. Building from the work of Barbara Warnick, a synchronic and diachronic analysis of their collaboration yields…
A Traumatic Reading of Twentieth-Century Rhetorical Theory
In this essay, I seek to read the rhetorical theories set forth by Belgians Chaïm Perelman and Paul de Man as responses to the Holocaust. To accomplish this aspiration, I draw from Dominick LaCapra's framework for the analysis of trauma and its expression in historical and theoretical texts. Reading the rhetorical theories of Perelman and de Man, two of the most prominent of the twentieth century, through a lens of trauma theory allows critics to…
Jerusalem and the riparian simile
Shalom Achshav”— Rituals of the Israeli peace movement
Rhetorical critics have ignored the study of non‐western movements and have not paid serious attention to the construction of theories which help to explain and interpret the rhetorical form of movements. This study attempts to fill both voids by synthesizing concepts from rhetorical theory and anthropology to explain the linguistic process which made up the Israeli peace movement. An assessment of the rhetorical strategies, a listing of the indi…
On the study of ancient Chinese rhetoric/Bian
N his In Defence of Rhetoric, Brian Vickers (1988) calls rhetoricalscholars to recapture the rhetorical past, rhetorical theories, andpractices developed by schools and individuals of different cultures. Thestudy of in the West has featured primarily Occidental tradi-tions, although Western scholars have made attempts to introduce,explain, and explore the of other cultures. Chinese rhetoric, inparticular, has received some attention from some Wes…
The new rhetoric, Judaism, and post‐enlightenment thought
In search of justice, Chaim Perelman rediscovered the rhetorical tradition and reclaimed his Jewish identity after World War II. As an attempt to correct misreadings of Perelmanian thought and to situate the New Rhetoric as a response to post-Enlightenment and postmodern culture, I advance two arguments in this essay. First, Perelman's philosophy and the New Rhetoric project reflect his Jewish heritage and Talmudic habits of argument. Second, bec…
The Labour Stamp
IT IS OFTEN SAID that you can leam much about a country's history and culture from its postage stamps. Pierre Berton, for instance, has written that on postage stamps great milestones of the past in Canadian history all been recorded in miniature. A closer examination demonstrates that postage stamps have usually presented a selective reading of the public identity and that some narratives are privileged and others are neglected. In a recent stud…
The mutability of rhetoric
This essay draws from Edwin Black's Rhetorical Questions to illuminate the role of mutability in rhetoric, consciousness, and social idioms as it is displayed in Haydar ‘Abd al‐Shafi's speech delivered at the Madrid conference on October 31, 1991. Shaft's speech represents a significant mutation in Palestinian discourse. In this speech, the symbolic mold and the hereditarian social idioms that had controlled the Palestinian narrative until the in…
Colliers across the Sea
Shared Land/Conflicting Identity
This work presents the argument that rhetoric, ideology and myth have played key roles in influencing the development of the 100-year conflict between first the Zionist settlers and now the Israeli people and the Palestinian residents in what is now Israel
Jerusalem and the riparian simile
First Philosophies and Regressive Philosophy
A number of metaphysicians, including Bergson and Heidegger, consider metaphysics the only knowledge of consequence and use the word to refer to their own philosophies. But a large number of eminent metaphysicians, among them Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Fichte and Hegel had only disdain for metaphysics and used the word to discredit the philosophy of their adversaries. D'Alembert (602-604) once noted that those referred to as metaphysicians had lit…
A Traumatic Reading of Twentieth-Century Rhetorical Theory
In this essay, I seek to read the rhetorical theories set forth by Belgians Chaïm Perelman and Paul de Man as responses to the Holocaust. To accomplish this aspiration, I draw from Dominick LaCapra's framework for the analysis of trauma and its expression in historical and theoretical texts. Reading the rhetorical theories of Perelman and de Man, two of the most prominent of the twentieth century, through a lens of trauma theory allows critics to…
Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric
The New Rhetoric project featured an eleven-year collaboration between Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca and Chaïm Perelman, which culminated with their 1958 magnum opus, Traité de l'argumentation: la nouvelle rhétorique. Scholars have long speculated about Olbrechts-Tyteca's role in the New Rhetoric project and her relationship with Chaïm Perelman. Building from the work of Barbara Warnick, a synchronic and diachronic analysis of their collaboration yields…
Obama’s Rhetorical Signature
Drawing on his two books, Dreams from my Father and The Audacity of Hope, the prophetic African American Christian mythic system, and a rhetoric of argumentative reason, Barack Obama developed literary, mythic, and rhetorical signatures during his campaign for president. His signatures recast binary oppositions and answered questions of identity with a set of dissociations, rhetorical acts intended to transform the relationship between contraries…
Facing Moloch
During his first term as president, Barack Obama delivered four national eulogies at the sites of gun violence tragedies, two of which garnered considerable national attention: one delivered in Tucson, Arizona on January 12, 2011 (following the attack on Representative Gabrielle Giffords and an assembled crowd), and another in Newtown, Connecticut on December 16, 2012 (following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School). The deaths of innocen…
Syngman Rhee, Robert T. Oliver, and the Symbolic Construction of the Republic of Korea during the Global Cold War
Robert T. Oliver, a professor of speech at Pennsylvania State University, served as a ghostwriter for Syngman Rhee, the first president of the Republic of South Korea between 1943 and 1960. Within the larger context of an ongoing global Cold War and the division of the Korean peninsula in August 1945, Oliver and Rhee developed a foundational myth, Puk-jin Tongil (), to build the new nation of South Korea. The Puk-jin Tongil myth called for a reun…
Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama
Book Review| June 01 2018 Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship. By Robert E. Terrill. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015; pp. 224. $39.99 cloth; $38.99 e-book. David A. Frank David A. Frank University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Publ…
The Origins of and Possible Futures for Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Dissociation of Concepts
This essay tells the story of Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's “dissociation of concepts,” which they introduced in 1958 and is in use as a tool of criticism by many rhetorical critics. The story begins in England with John Locke's development of associative reasoning in 1770 and then moves to France, with Remy de Gourmont extending associative reasoning with the concept of dissociation in 1899. Gourmont's dissociation crosses the Atlantic and is …
The Complicity of Racial and Rhetorical Pessimism
Research Article| September 01 2020 The Complicity of Racial and Rhetorical Pessimism: The Coherence and Promise of the Long Civil Rights Movement David A. Frank David A. Frank David A. Frank is Professor of Rhetoric in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, Eugene. He thanks Professor John Hatch and Charley Leistner for their help in constructing this manuscript. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google…
The Origins of the Jewish Rhetorical Tradition
J. B. McLachlan Fills Out a Questionnaire, 1931
In Moscow, at the offices of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, it is 23 December 1931.A veteran leader of the coal miners in Nova Scotia, J. B. McLachlan, is filling out a questionnaire.The five typed pages are addressed to "Leading Workers of the Parties and International Organisations."They ask about background, social position, political experience, and public activity.At this time, McLachlan is in his early 60s, a "grand…
A longitudinal investigation of breastfeeding planning, initiation, and duration among individuals with pre-pregnancy overweight or obesity
are less likely to initiate and continue breastfeeding than are those with BMIs<25. Given the intergenerational health benefits of breastfeeding, it is important to understand breastfeeding behaviors and their correlates among individuals with BMIs≥25. Thus, in an observational cohort with BMI≥25 (N = 237), we aimed to characterize longitudinal relationships among breastfeeding planning, initiation, and duration and their sociodemographic/clinica…
Racial, Ethnic, and Sex Differences in Need and Receipt of Support for Social Needs Among Veterans
This study found that there was wide variation in the health-related social need domains in which VHA race, ethnicity, and sex subpopulations reported needing support. Applying an intersectional lens when evaluating social needs lays the groundwork for equity-guided social care interventions in the VHA
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