Dastardly Discourse: Rescuing Rhetorical Capital from Indecency and Incivility - Softcover

Gorzycki, Meg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1725262231 ISBN 13: 9781725262232

Verlag: Resource Publications, 2020

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Screaming at the television, compulsively firing off tart little tweets, and blogging until we are blue; these signal that we are feeling the effects of dastardly discourse. We live in a world where people feel entitled to use words to hurt, exploit, and publicly degrade humanity. We daily consume rhetoric that makes a mockery of decency and civility. Leaders of key social institutions, including government, news media, and religious organizations, who are supposed to be role models of reasoned and compassionate communication are often the ones with the loudest lies and the hardest hate.
We can change the channel. We can unplug. We can even encourage others to do the same. We may not do so, however, until we grasp what is fundamentally at risk in our current norms of communication. Nasty words are just the tip of the dastardly discourse iceberg. What lies beneath is a steady flow of propaganda that aims to control our personal narratives. This book is about that propaganda, the importance of owning our own narratives, and improving our own rhetorical capital—the ability to analyze and evaluate information—for the sake of sustaining human dignity, decency, and civility.

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Meg Gorzycki is faculty consultant and researcher interested in critical thinking, moral development, and literacy. She taught courses in history, media, and education in the United States and abroad, and was a school administrator. Meg's social critiques draw from the spiritual teachings of Benedictines, Jesuits, and sacred wisdom of non-Christian traditions. Her books include Caesar Ate My Jesus, God Bless Our Cubicles, The ABCs of a Troubled Republic, and Dastardly Discourse.

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• Verlag: Resource Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1725262231
• ISBN 13: 9781725262232
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244
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