ABSTRACT
This volume presents the best scholarship from the 19th National Communication Association/American Forensic Association Conference on Argumentation, which took place July 30-August 2, 2015, at Cliff Lodge, Snowbird Resort, in Alta, Utah. The Alta Conference, first held in 1979, is the oldest conference in argumentation studies in the world and biennially brings together a lively group of scholars, representing a variety of countries, with diverse perspectives on the theory and practice of argument. The essays in Recovering Argument invite reflection upon and reconsideration of argumentation’s legacy, present status, and potential roles in social, cultural, and political life. Readers will encounter essays that treat the relationship between argumentation and memory, historical approaches to argumentation, the vitality of public and interpersonal argument, argument’s role in leadership, discursive and presentational forms of argument, and the challenges of difference. Readers also will find these topics addressed from a variety of historical, social-scientific, and critical-interpretive perspectives.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |13 pages
Keynote Address
chapter |13 pages
“Lafayette, we are Here!”
part |17 pages
Spotlight Panel
part I|73 pages
Recovering Argument in History
part |36 pages
Argument in Service of Memory
chapter 4|6 pages
Stories of Origin
chapter 7|6 pages
“The Blind Remembrance”
chapter 8|6 pages
Recovering Nature
part |24 pages
Memory in Service of Argument
chapter 10|6 pages
Conspiracy as Legal Doctrine and Historiographical Framework
part |13 pages
Recovering Legacies of Argumentation
chapter 14|7 pages
Me and Michael McGee
part II|164 pages
Recovering Argument in Public/Politics
part |32 pages
Argument and the Public Sphere
chapter 20|7 pages
Recovering the Potential of Argument in the Public Sphere
part |31 pages
Health and/of Argument
chapter 23|7 pages
The Logic(s) of Diagnosis
chapter 24|6 pages
Healthy Disagreement
chapter 25|6 pages
Recovering from Pathological Argumentation
part |32 pages
Health(y) Argument about Ebola
chapter 28|6 pages
Recovering Productive Pity to Motivate Americans to Corrective Action on Africa’s Ebola Crisis
part |17 pages
Argument and Terror
chapter 31|5 pages
The Case of Shura City
chapter 32|7 pages
Discovering and Recovering Arguments About Terror
chapter 33|5 pages
Recovering Argument by Dissociation
part |28 pages
Recovering Leadership Through Argument
chapter 37|6 pages
Recovering Responsibility
chapter 38|6 pages
Prime Minister Abe’s Critical Turn
part |24 pages
Public Argument on Social Media
chapter 40|6 pages
Perspective by Incongruity in Internet Memes
chapter 42|6 pages
Arguments for Everybody
part III|145 pages
Recovering Argument in Theory and Criticism
part |40 pages
The Challenge of Gender
chapter 43|6 pages
The Subversive Sister
chapter 45|6 pages
Argumentation in the Identity Politics of the Trans Selfie
chapter 49|6 pages
Recovering Rape
part |34 pages
The Challenge of Presentational Arguments
chapter 51|5 pages
A Critical Recovery of Images as Arguments
chapter 53|6 pages
Corporeal Anxiety
chapter 55|5 pages
Examining Presentational Devices
part |25 pages
The Challenge of Interpersonal Arguments
part |23 pages
The Challenges of/to Academic Debate
chapter 60|6 pages
Recovering Debate Coach as Civic Figure
chapter 62|6 pages
Recovering and Celebrating Controversy
part |23 pages
Recovering Genres of Discursive Argument