Progress, But Slow Going: Public Argument in the Forging of Collective Norms

TY - JOUR

T1 - Progress, But Slow Going

T2 - Public Argument in the Forging of Collective Norms

AU - Villadsen, Lisa Storm

PY - 2020/9/1

Y1 - 2020/9/1

N2 - Rhetorical argumentation is a craft: collective, processual, and circulating, and it partakes in the indeterminate evolution of public norms. Official apologies can illustrate how rhetorical modalities over time can reflect change in civic sensibilities and effect collective moral reflection and evolution. Rhetorical citizenship, understood as encompassing both critical production and reception of publicly circulating arguments, is a way of conceptualizing the interaction between the individual and the collective in the ongoing discursive formation of the community and the norms that inform it.

AB - Rhetorical argumentation is a craft: collective, processual, and circulating, and it partakes in the indeterminate evolution of public norms. Official apologies can illustrate how rhetorical modalities over time can reflect change in civic sensibilities and effect collective moral reflection and evolution. Rhetorical citizenship, understood as encompassing both critical production and reception of publicly circulating arguments, is a way of conceptualizing the interaction between the individual and the collective in the ongoing discursive formation of the community and the norms that inform it.

U2 - 10.1007/s10503-019-09500-3

DO - 10.1007/s10503-019-09500-3

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0920-427X

JO - Argumentation

JF - Argumentation

ER -