Rhetoric of Official Apologies - Critical Essays

This book discusses the controversial phenomenon of official apologies through a series of critical essays. Contributors rhetorically analyze a range of apologies in their particular context and gauge the promises and pitfalls of official apologies as political statements.

List of contents

Introduction
Lisa S. Villadsen and Jason A. Edwards
Chapter 1
"Theorizing Collective Metanoia: Apology, the Penitent Self, and the Penitent State"
Adam Ellwanger
Chapter 2
"'It May Seem Strange': When Presidents Apologize for Genocide"
Bradley A. Serber
Chapter 3
"Audiences and the Normative Dimensions of Official Apologies"
Kevin Coe
Chapter 4
"Between Sovereignty and Vulnerability: Reconciliation, Reparation, and Vexed Agency in Resolutions Apologizing for Slavery"
John B. Hatch
Chapter 5
"Apology Infinitum: Colonialism And The Need For Repeated Apologies For Canadian Aboriginal Boarding Schools"
M. Shivaun Corry
Chapter 6
"Corporate Apologies for Slavery: Opportunities for the Rhetoric of History and Renewal"
Jeffrey D. Brand
Chapter 7
"The Heavy Heart of a Soldier: Apology as Resistance"
Claudia Janssen Danyi and Marita Gronvoll
Chapter 8
"Exceptional Histories and Obscure Gestures: The United States Government's Official Apology to Native Peoples"
Jeremy Cox and Tiara Good
Chapter 9
"Re-imagining Rhetorical Reconciliation in Australian Public Address"
Kundai Chirindo and Jasper Edwards
Afterword
Jason A. Edwards and Lisa S. Villadsen
About the Contributors

About the author

Lisa S. Villadsen is professor of rhetoric and head of the Section of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jason A. Edwards is professor and chair of communication studies at Bridgewater State University.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa S. Edwards Villadsen
• Assisted by: Jason A. Edwards (Editor), Edwards Jason A. (Editor), Lisa S. Villadsen (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781793621801
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-180-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Communication Studies, Public Administration, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc