Foreign Policy Communication Dramas: How Mediated Rhetoric Played in Peoria in Campaign '76.

Autor/inn/en	Cragan, John F.; Shields, Donald C.
Titel	Foreign Policy Communication Dramas: How Mediated Rhetoric Played in Peoria in Campaign '76.
Quelle	(1977), (35 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
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Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Adults; Communication (Thought Transfer); Foreign Policy; Information Theory; Persuasive Discourse; Public Opinion; Rhetoric + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Außenpolitik; Informationstheorie; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Öffentliche Meinung; Rhetorik
Abstract	A message-centered dramatistic theory of communication was used in conjunction with Q-sort technique and factor analysis to build and test a message-centered foreign-policy inventory that contained three dramatic interpretations of U.S. involvement in foreign affairs: cold war, power politics, and neo-isolationism. Analysis of results from two groups of 30 subjects indicated that the power-politics drama was the most accepted rhetorical vision in Peoria, Illinois. Cold war was a close second, but it appeared to polarize Peorians. Neo-isolationism was a distant third. The results were interpreted as providing empirical verification not only for the typology of foreign-policy dramas but also for Bormann's dramatistic theory of communication. The design used in the study indicates that rhetorical messages may be tested for their persuasiveness, producing a direct relationship between message production and audience analysis without risking the credibility of a speaker. (Author/AA)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01