From Enclave to Counterpublic
Doubled Rhetorical Space and the Civil Rights Mass Meeting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12465123 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Ellis Miller (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-253 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rhetoric and Public Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-8392 • E-ISSN: 1534-5238 |
| Publisher | Michigan State University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14321/rhetpublaffa.23.2.0225 |
| OpenAlex | W3045938109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This essay considers civil rights mass meetings as rhetorical events that operated with doubled purpose. Surveying three 1960s civil rights scenes, the study reveals how meetings provided spaces to recharge and regroup at the same time that they functioned as sites for countermovement engagement. Centering attention on this fluid movement among purposes offers insights into strategies activists devised for double-voicing. For the speakers and meetings analyzed here, metonymy, parrhesia, and religious reframing provided rhetors with modes for exploiting outsiders’ presence at these events while continuing to use the meeting for their own ends
Civil rights · Cognitive reframing · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |