Local Theories of Argument

Dale Hample is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland, and Professor Emeritus of Communication at Western Illinois University. He has been a spotlight speaker at argumentation conferences in Canada, Chile, the Netherlands, and the United States. His previous books are Interpersonal Arguing (2018), Arguing: Exchanging Reasons Face to Face (2005), and Readings in Argumentation (1992; co-edited with William and Pamela Benoit). He is a past editor of Argumentation and Advocacy. For the past decade, his research has concentrated on studying orientations toward interpersonal arguing in more than a dozen nations across the world.

• I. The Project of Local Theories of ArgumentChapter 1: Do We Need Local Theories of Argument? Chapter 2: (Counter) Mapping the Place and Time of Local ArgumentChapter 3: Georhetoric: Toward an Anthropology of Argument II. Bodies and IdentitiesChapter 4: A Nasty and Persistent Feminist Theory of Argumentative Anger Chapter 5: Educating and Inspiring Future Women Scientists: Making Arguments about Significance and Contribution in Biography Collections for Young PeopleChapter 6: Beyond Participation, Toward Disparticipation: Contesting White Feminism at the 2017 Women’s MarchChapter 7: The Best a Can Be? Understanding Localized Arguments about Portrayals in Gillette’s "We Believe" AdvertisementChapter 8: Representing or Hispandering?: Beto O’Rourke, Political Identity, and Identification Chapter 9: Developmental Changes and Practices that Facilitate Argumentation: A Brief Review of a Research ProgramChapter 10: Activating Memory: Digital Dialogue with Holographic Holocaust SurvivorsChapter 11: The Argumentative Dimensions of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) in People with Autism-SpectrumChapter 12: Where All Arguments are Local: Affective Arguments in Virginia’s Moral Debates about BlackfaceChapter 13: American Patriotism’s Invisible Racial Warrant: Repositioning Colin Kaepernick as a Black Critical PatriotChapter 14: Rhetorical Logics of Racist Accusation and DefenseChapter 15: "The Definition of Racism" – A Critique of Racial Deduction,Chapter 16: Assemblage Argumentation at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice: Temporary Monumentality and the Localization of Racial (In)JusticeChapter 17: Disrupting Local Logic: Dress Code Protests and Perelman’s Universal Audience in the Viral AgeChapter 18: Pleasantries or Putdowns?: Unpacking a Dichotomy in Identity Arguments Chapter 19: Evolving Deliberative Norms in American Political Debates: A Comparison of the Carter-Reagan Debate in 1980 and the First Obama-Romney Debate in 2012Chapter 20: A Jeremiadic Eulogy: George W. Bush’s Defense of the ForumChapter 21: Local Symbols as Grounds for Policy Change in Mass Shooting EulogiesChapter 22: Apologia, Argument, and Philosophical Pairs in American Political Discourse Chapter 23: Reluctant Witness: Christine Blasey Ford Testifies before the Universal Audience During the Kavanaugh HearingsChapter 24: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Supreme Court: Satirizing Political Ethos and Gendered Pathos in the Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation HearingsChapter 25: Reporting from Trump Country: Local Presumption and White Trauma Narratives Chapter 26: Are Aggressive Argument Strategies in Political Debates Localized Phenomena or Symptoms of Something More Troubling in Contemporary Political Culture?Chapter 27: Local-Chronological Eras of Presidential Debates: Forms, Functions, and Analysis Chapter 28: Military Heretics: Major Danny Sjursen and Arguments that Challenge Orthodoxy Chapter 29: Surviving R. Kelly: Presenting Testimony as EvidenceChapter 30: The Elision of Definition in the Debate on Born-Alive Abortions Chapter 31: Locating Utopia in Populism: Considering Progressive Populism, Utopian Rhetoric, and the Populist Argumentative FrameChapter 32: Arguing with Family Members about the 2016 Presidential Election Chapter 33: (In)civility and the Modern Presidency: Presidential Constructions of a Complex IdeaChapter 34: Anti-Establishment Micropolitics in the Response Closure of Political Campaign Debates Chapter 35: Generating Local Theories of Argument: Romantic Populist Improvisation and Sprezzatura in Donald Trump’s MAGA RalliesIV. Historical United StatesChapter 36: Implicit Theories of Argument in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Chapter 37: Locating Argument’s Location: The Stasis of Jurisdiction and the Establishment of the First Meridian of the United StatesChapter 38: President Calvin Coolidge’s Local Argumentation: Resolving Questions of RaceV. ChinaChapter 39: Local Argument Spheres in China: A Case Study of the Debate Show QipashuoChapter 40: Implying with Analogy and Quoting Authoritative Works: The Argumentation in Yen T’ieh LunChapter 41: Chinese Argumentation in War Rhetoric: A Case Study of Soong Meiling’s Speech at the U.S. Congress on February 18th, 1943Chapter 42: A Comparative Study of Mediated Public Arguments on Trump’s Trade War in the United States and ChinaVI. JapanChapter 43: Toward Local Theories of Japanese Argumentation: Contexts and StrategiesChapter 44: Shinzo Abe's Not So Beautiful Lies, or How He Stopped Worrying about Embarrassing Himself in PublicChapter 45: Proving Sontaku (Surmising of Wishes) at the Japanese National Diet: Attempts to Prove What No One Can ProveChapter 46: A Critical Analysis of Meta-Arguments in the National Diet of Japan: The Case of a Debate over Security Legislation in 2015Chapter 47: How Japan Neglects Workers of Foreign Nationalities: An Analysis of Immigration Control Controversies in the National DietChapter 48: Argumentation in Epideictic Oratory at the Annual State Ritual of March 11 DisasterVII. Other Parts of the WorldChapter 49: Multiple Temporalities of the Idomeni Camp in GreeceChapter 50: "Democracy" and Putin’s "Nation:" Pathways for Definitional ArgumentVIII. New MediaChapter 51: Is Cogent Argumentation Possible Through Social Media? Chapter 52: Digital Infrastructures of Affect and the Future of the Networked Public Sphere Chapter 53: Locating Judgment in Argument by AlgorithmChapter 54: New Media and Old Coffee: How Local Styles of Town Hall Meetings Reconfigure a Dialectical TraditionChapter 55: Who’s Really the Victim? The "Hashtag Hijacking" of #HimToo as Localized Narrative Argument, Chapter 56: The Political Mind and Rhetorical Cognition: Arguing Tropes and Fractals on the 4th of July 2019Chapter 57: Memes as Quasi-Argument: An Insidious Threat to Public DebateIX. DinnerChapter 58: Local Argument Through Presence in Holocaust CookbooksChapter 59: Dissociation, Multimodal Argument, Sean Brock, and the LocalX. Local PlacesChapter 60: Dissociating Means and Ends: Expanding Education Markets and Diminishing Democratic DeliberationChapter 61: Modernizing Racism: The Localization of Settler-Colonial Logics in Utah House Bill 93Chapter 62: The Bensenville Pause: Argumentation, Sound Figuration, and Local Sound CulturesXI. Pedagogy and the Modern UniversityChapter 63: Civic Education through Rhetorical PrinciplesChapter 64: Featuring Performance in Intercollegiate Academic Debate Pedagogy and Practice Chapter 65: Demonstrating Academic Relevance and Rigor: Linking the NCA Learning Outcomes in Communication to Debate Program Assessment through PortfoliosChapter 66: Developing the Whole Director: A Flexible Framework for Professional Development for Intercollegiate DebateChapter 67: Assessing Tenure-Track Debate Program Directors: Augmenting Intercollegiate Debate Programs with Service Learning Opportunities in Local University ContextsChapter 68: Assessing Argumentation LiteracyXII. Legal IssuesChapter 69: The Counterside Problem: Blackmun’s Tie-Breaking in Roe v. WadeChapter 70: Not Just Twitter: Censorship Threats to Local Communities in Cyberspace Chapter 71: Originalist Judicial Style: Fake News, Reputation, and Libel Law XIII. Argumentation Theory Chapter 72: The Received View of Argument and JustificationChapter 73: Communicative Competence and Local Theories of Argumentation: The Case of Academic Citational PracticesChapter 74: General and Local Theories of Argument in Late ModernityChapter 75: Does the Rhyme Chime? Evaluating the Persuasiveness of a Rhyming Weather MessageChapter 76: A Temporally Local Theory of Polarizing Argumentative StyleChapter 77: Large and Small: Motivated Interpretations of Statistical EvidenceChapter 78: Local Theories of Argument and Immanent Obligations: Inciting an Askesis