J Michael Sproule
Biographic Data
| ID | 4586249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Michael Sproule |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Sproule |
| SIGNATURE | SPROULE J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric—The Big Problem
William Keith, Christian Lundberg, and James M. Farrell have thoughtfully reviewedmy effort to explicate howmodern public speaking came to be conceptualized on the basis of antecedent text genres.My argumentwas that a newunderstanding of oral rhetoric emerged between 1890 and 1930 as authors experimentally and variously appropriated concepts and frameworks from elocution (in its several iterations), from oratorical composition (as given in new-rh…
Inventing Public Speaking
Formerly a synonym for oratory and elocution, "public speaking" after 1900 signaled, instead, a paradigm shift whereby extemporaneous-conversational speechmaking replaced declamation and oratorical composition. This study of more than 200 key titles published between 1730 and 1930 demonstrates that the modern public-speaking book emerged, not as an innovation in whole cloth, but rather from a generation-long process of selectively recombining mat…
The Four Minute Men and Early Twentieth-Century Public Speaking Pedagogy
Research Article| June 01 2010 The Four Minute Men and Early Twentieth-Century Public Speaking Pedagogy J. Michael Sproule J. Michael Sproule Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2010) 13 (2): 135–147. https://doi.org/10.2307/41940495 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. Michael Sproule; The Four Minute Men and Early Twentieth-Centur…
Propaganda, history, and orthodoxy
(1998). Propaganda, history, and orthodoxy. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 457-459
Propaganda and American Ideological Critique
Since 1900, different schools of thought have emerged in the United States concerning the implications of propaganda for the rational-democratic society. The conversation among progressive propaganda critics, communication practitioners, rationalists, communication scientists, conservative humanists, and political polemicists reveals the panorama of American experience with and interpretation of mass persuasion. Although selectively remembered to…
Progressive propaganda critics and the magic bullet myth
The standard account of the beginnings of American mass communication research holds that the propaganda critic between the world wars adopted the European concept of the mass audience, treating messages as “magic bullets”; directly and powerfully infused into passive receivers. Such a mythical account overlooks the progressive reformist mission of propaganda analysis to help an essentially competent public against the new co‐option of communicat…
The new managerial rhetoric and the old criticism
Rhetorical criticism developed as the consummation of the revival of the old paradigm of rhetoric, a renaissance begun during the late 1800s. Sharing the assumptions of the old rhetoric that individual speakers are the engine of social influence, that ideas and reasons are the staples of persuasion, and that society is moved through a diffusion of political ideas from elites to the general public, criticism has approached the new persuasions and …
Propaganda studies in American social science
During the 1920s and 1930s, a critical framework for analysis of social influence, called propaganda analysis, gained sway in American social science. The epistemic rationale of the paradigm was its ability to explain the phenomenon of modern mass persuasion. The paradigm's ideological appeal came through its ability to widen citizen participation in society and its match with postwar disillusionment and Depression‐era skepticism. By the late 193…
The psychological burden of proof
Previous analysis of Richard Whately's theory of presumption and burden of proof have been unable to resolve the apparent difficulty posed by his treatment of both legal (rule‐assigned) and psychological (audience‐determined) presumptions. Critics have either avoided this question entirely or have attempted to reconcile the dual forms of presumption in a legal interpretation of the theory, denigrating the psychological aspects, and suggesting tha…
An emerging rationale for revolution
The Stamp Act protest movement arose in opposition to the Grenville Ministry's program of revenue stamps in the American colonies. Analysis of the polemic literature reveals the essential unity of claims conforming to each of Richard Weaver's bi‐polar concepts of circumstance and genus as sources of argument
Propaganda studies in American social science
During the 1920s and 1930s, a critical framework for analysis of social influence, called propaganda analysis, gained sway in American social science. The epistemic rationale of the paradigm was its ability to explain the phenomenon of modern mass persuasion. The paradigm's ideological appeal came through its ability to widen citizen participation in society and its match with postwar disillusionment and Depression‐era skepticism. By the late 193…
Inventing Public Speaking
Formerly a synonym for oratory and elocution, "public speaking" after 1900 signaled, instead, a paradigm shift whereby extemporaneous-conversational speechmaking replaced declamation and oratorical composition. This study of more than 200 key titles published between 1730 and 1930 demonstrates that the modern public-speaking book emerged, not as an innovation in whole cloth, but rather from a generation-long process of selectively recombining mat…
The psychological burden of proof
Previous analysis of Richard Whately's theory of presumption and burden of proof have been unable to resolve the apparent difficulty posed by his treatment of both legal (rule‐assigned) and psychological (audience‐determined) presumptions. Critics have either avoided this question entirely or have attempted to reconcile the dual forms of presumption in a legal interpretation of the theory, denigrating the psychological aspects, and suggesting tha…
The new managerial rhetoric and the old criticism
Rhetorical criticism developed as the consummation of the revival of the old paradigm of rhetoric, a renaissance begun during the late 1800s. Sharing the assumptions of the old rhetoric that individual speakers are the engine of social influence, that ideas and reasons are the staples of persuasion, and that society is moved through a diffusion of political ideas from elites to the general public, criticism has approached the new persuasions and …
Propaganda and American Ideological Critique
Since 1900, different schools of thought have emerged in the United States concerning the implications of propaganda for the rational-democratic society. The conversation among progressive propaganda critics, communication practitioners, rationalists, communication scientists, conservative humanists, and political polemicists reveals the panorama of American experience with and interpretation of mass persuasion. Although selectively remembered to…
An emerging rationale for revolution
The Stamp Act protest movement arose in opposition to the Grenville Ministry's program of revenue stamps in the American colonies. Analysis of the polemic literature reveals the essential unity of claims conforming to each of Richard Weaver's bi‐polar concepts of circumstance and genus as sources of argument
The psychological burden of proof
Previous analysis of Richard Whately's theory of presumption and burden of proof have been unable to resolve the apparent difficulty posed by his treatment of both legal (rule‐assigned) and psychological (audience‐determined) presumptions. Critics have either avoided this question entirely or have attempted to reconcile the dual forms of presumption in a legal interpretation of the theory, denigrating the psychological aspects, and suggesting tha…
Propaganda studies in American social science
During the 1920s and 1930s, a critical framework for analysis of social influence, called propaganda analysis, gained sway in American social science. The epistemic rationale of the paradigm was its ability to explain the phenomenon of modern mass persuasion. The paradigm's ideological appeal came through its ability to widen citizen participation in society and its match with postwar disillusionment and Depression‐era skepticism. By the late 193…
The new managerial rhetoric and the old criticism
Rhetorical criticism developed as the consummation of the revival of the old paradigm of rhetoric, a renaissance begun during the late 1800s. Sharing the assumptions of the old rhetoric that individual speakers are the engine of social influence, that ideas and reasons are the staples of persuasion, and that society is moved through a diffusion of political ideas from elites to the general public, criticism has approached the new persuasions and …
Progressive propaganda critics and the magic bullet myth
The standard account of the beginnings of American mass communication research holds that the propaganda critic between the world wars adopted the European concept of the mass audience, treating messages as “magic bullets”; directly and powerfully infused into passive receivers. Such a mythical account overlooks the progressive reformist mission of propaganda analysis to help an essentially competent public against the new co‐option of communicat…
Propaganda and American Ideological Critique
Since 1900, different schools of thought have emerged in the United States concerning the implications of propaganda for the rational-democratic society. The conversation among progressive propaganda critics, communication practitioners, rationalists, communication scientists, conservative humanists, and political polemicists reveals the panorama of American experience with and interpretation of mass persuasion. Although selectively remembered to…
Propaganda, history, and orthodoxy
(1998). Propaganda, history, and orthodoxy. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 457-459
The Four Minute Men and Early Twentieth-Century Public Speaking Pedagogy
Research Article| June 01 2010 The Four Minute Men and Early Twentieth-Century Public Speaking Pedagogy J. Michael Sproule J. Michael Sproule Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2010) 13 (2): 135–147. https://doi.org/10.2307/41940495 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation J. Michael Sproule; The Four Minute Men and Early Twentieth-Centur…
Inventing Public Speaking
Formerly a synonym for oratory and elocution, "public speaking" after 1900 signaled, instead, a paradigm shift whereby extemporaneous-conversational speechmaking replaced declamation and oratorical composition. This study of more than 200 key titles published between 1730 and 1930 demonstrates that the modern public-speaking book emerged, not as an innovation in whole cloth, but rather from a generation-long process of selectively recombining mat…
Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric—The Big Problem
William Keith, Christian Lundberg, and James M. Farrell have thoughtfully reviewedmy effort to explicate howmodern public speaking came to be conceptualized on the basis of antecedent text genres.My argumentwas that a newunderstanding of oral rhetoric emerged between 1890 and 1930 as authors experimentally and variously appropriated concepts and frameworks from elocution (in its several iterations), from oratorical composition (as given in new-rh…
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