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Article: Campaign argument and the liberal public sphere: a case study of the process of developing messages in a congressional campaign.(Case study)
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- Argumentation and Advocacy
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- March 22, 2006
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An enormous literature on the status of the public sphere exists. Often drawing on the work of Jurgen Habermas (Calhoun, 1992; Habermas, 1989), rhetorical and argumentation scholars have developed several theories of the public sphere and analyzed any number of campaigns or public controversies (Calhoun, 1993; Fabj & Sobnosky, 1995; Finnegan & Kang, 2004; Fraser, 1992; Goodnight, 1982, 1992; Griffin, 1996; Gring-Pemble, 1998; Klumpp, 1997; Phillips, 1996; Triadafilopoulos, 1999; Warner, 2002; Weal, 1985; Willard, 1989). (1) Almost without exception, these theoretical and descriptive analyses have been conducted from the perspective of the critic of argument looking at ...