Progress, But Slow Going: Public Argument in the Forging of Collective Norms

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Rhetorical argumentation is a craft: collective, processual, and circulating, and it partakes in the indeterminate evolution of public norms. Official apologies can illustrate how rhetorical modalities over time can reflect change in civic sensibilities and effect collective moral reflection and evolution. Rhetorical citizenship, understood as encompassing both critical production and reception of publicly circulating arguments, is a way of conceptualizing the interaction between the individual and the collective in the ongoing discursive formation of the community and the norms that inform it.
Original languageEnglish
JournalArgumentation
Pages (from-to)325-337
Number of pages18
ISSN0920-427X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Aug 2020

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