The Rhetorical Situation: Sources

List of Sources

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Carlson, A. Cheree. "The Rhetoric of the Know-Nothing Party; Nativism As a Response to the Rhetorical Situation." Southern Communication Journal 54 (1988): 364-383.

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Hunsaker, David M., and Craig R. Smith. "The Nature of Issues: A Constructive Approach to Situational Rhetoric." Western Journal of Speech Communication 40 (1976): 144–156.

Jamieson, Kathleen M. "Antecedent Genre as Rhetorical Constraint." Quarterly Journal of Speech 61 (1975): 406-415.

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. "Generic Constraints and the Rhetorical Situation." Philosophy and Rhetoric 6/3 (1973): 162–170.

Johnson, Janet, "Twitter Bites and Romney: Examining the Rhetorical Situation of the 2012 Presidential Election in 140 Characters." Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric 2 (2012): 54-64.

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Kuypers, Jim A., Marilyn J. Young, and Michael K. Launer. "Of Mighty Mice and Meek Men: Contextual Reconstruction of the Iranian Airbus Shootdown." Southern Communication Journal 59/4 (1994): 294–306.

Larson, Richard L. "Lloyd Bitzer's 'Rhetorical Situation' and the Classification of Discourse: Problems and Implications." Philosophy and Rhetoric 3 (1970): 165–168.

McConnell, Kathleen F. "In Appreciation of the Kind of Rhetoric We Learn in School: An Institutional Perspective on the Rhetorical Situation and on Education." Quarterly Journal of Speech 96 (2010): 278-299.

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Mister, Steven M. "Reagan's Challenger Tribute: Combining Generic Constraints and Situational Demands." Central States Speech Journal 37 (1986): 158-165.

Norton, Robert Wayne. "The Rhetorical Situation Is the Message: Muskie's Election Eve Television Broadcast." Central States Speech Journal 22 (1971): 171-178.

Patton, John H. "Causation and Creativity in Rhetorical Situations: Distinctions and Implications." Quarterly Journal of Speech 65 (1979): 36-55.

Pomeroy, Ralph J. "Fitness of Response in Bitzer's Concept of Rhetorical Discourse." Georgia Speech Communication Journal 4/1 (1972), 42–71.

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Young, Marilyn J. "LLoyd F. Bitzer: Rhetorical Situation, Public Knowledge, and Audience Dynamics." Twentieth-Century Roots of Rhetorical Studies. Ed. Jim A. Kuypers and Andrew King. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. 275-302.

Young, Marilyn J., and Michael K. Launer. Flights of Fancy, Flight of Doom: KAL 007 and Soviet–American Rhetoric. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988.

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