Democratic Disunity - Rhetorical Tribalism in 2020

Democratic Disunity: Rhetorical Tribalism in 2020 maintains that while attention has focused on the tribal bifurcation of the GOP, the Democratic Party is similarly divided. Rhetorical strategies anchored in dialogue may diminish the effect of political partisanship, including its toxic variations between and within American political parties.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Democratic Intraparty Tribalism
Chapter 2 Rhetorical Tribalism
Chapter 3 American Rhetorical Tribes
Chapter 4 Congressional Tribalism
Chapter 5 Mediated Tribalism
Chapter 6 Caucuses, Primaries and Convention
Chapter 7 The Election
Chapter 8 The Legacy of Intraparty Tribalism
Chapter 9 Tribalism as a Rhetorical Form
Conclusion: Rhetorical Tribal Reconciliation
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Colleen Elizabeth Kelley is Associate Professor Emerita of Rhetoric and Communication at Penn State Behrend.

Product details

• Authors: Colleen Elizabeth Kelley, Kelley Colleen Elizabeth
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2024
• EAN: 9781793639875
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-987-5
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Lexington Studies in Political Communication; Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Political parties and party platforms, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc