Communicating Terror: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Terrorism
The only book to examine terrorism as a rhetorical act\ \ “This is an excellent text in furthering our understanding of the web of language and how it creates our mediated realities – which reflect our culture, politics, religion, economics, etc. Students really like the case studies and how it complements the theory and practice of rhetoric. I think this book has applications for almost any course in communication.”\ —J. Gregory Payne, Emerson College\ Concise, succinct, and provocative,...
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In response to the 9-11 attack, and to the effect it had on his communications students and other people, Tuman (political and legal communications, San Francisco State U.) explores what was changed that had not been changed by earlier attacks. Terrorism is a communication process with rhetorical dimensions, he explains, and looks at where public discourse affects and is affected by defining and labeling of terror, the symbolic meaning of terrorism, public oratory about terror, and the interaction of terrorism and mass media. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
PrefaceIntroduction1The Struggle to Define Terrorism12Terrorism as a Communication Process With Rhetorical Dimensions173Labeling and Defining Terrorism as Rhetoric314Symbols, Symbolism, and Terrorism475Public Oratory About Terrorism696Mass-Mediated Images and Construction of Terrorism115Index149About the Author157
