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Lay, Mary M.; And Others – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1996
Applies and tests Foucault's theories about local centers of power and knowledge by rhetorically analyzing a Minnesota Midwifery Study Advisory Group. Illustrates how knowledge may be produced/suppressed and how a rhetor may become empowered by projecting negative traits upon the "other." Demonstrates how some traditional midwives…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Discourse Analysis, Obstetrics, Power Structure
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Nakayama, Thomas K.; Krizek, Robert L. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1995
Explores the territory of whiteness in order to map the discursive space it occupies, as the first step in the process of exposing whiteness as a rhetorical construction. Discusses some of the rhetorical strategies through which whiteness resecures its discursive space and concludes with three aspects of reflexivity that offer directions for…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Power Structure
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Clarke, Lynn – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2005
The field of rhetoric has generated studies of definitional disputes and of the relationship between definition and power. Informed by the idea of collective definition created over time, these studies raise an important theoretical-practical question about definition and contestation that may be approached through a concept of authority.…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Homosexuality, Rhetoric, Definitions