Recovering Argument

Randall A. Lake is Associate Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, USA, where he also was Director of Debate from 1981-1990, and Director of Forensics from 1990-1994. Among other positions, he served on the NCA Committee on International Discussion and Debate from 1998-2002, organizing exchanges with teams from the United Kingdom, Japan, the Soviet Union, and Eastern European countries. He was editor-in-chief of Argumentation and Advocacy from 2004-2008 and associate editor of three previous Alta Conference volumes. His research has appeared in Argumentation and Advocacy, Argumentation, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Monographs, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and numerous edited collections. He also created and maintains asduniway.org, a website devoted to woman suffrage rhetoric, particularly that of Abigail Scott Duniway, of Oregon. He has received the NCA Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award (1982), the NCA Golden Anniversary Monograph Award for article of the year (1998), and the AFA Daniel Rohrer Research Award for article of the year (1998, 2016). His scholarship explores argumentation’s cultural and civic functions and emphasizes difference in the context of social change, focusing particularly on Native American, feminist, and conservative rhetorics.

Recovering Argument: An Introduction Keynote Address "Lafayette, we are here!": Why Did the US Commemorate Its World War I Dead in Europe? Spotlight Panel Introduction: In Celebration of Bruce Gronbeck (1941-2014) 1 Recovering Bruce Gronbeck: Reflecting on Argument’s Role in Rhetorical History 2 Recovering Bruce Gronbeck: Reflecting on Argument’s Role in Political Rhetoric 3 Recovering Bruce Gronbeck at Alta: Theory and the Critic of Argumentation Part I: Recovering Argument in History Argument in Service of Memory 4 Stories of Origin: Recovering Atomic Histories in the "Noisy" Nuclear Culture of Richland, Washington 5 Temporary Holocaust Tattoos: Recovering Signs for Collective Prosthetic Memory 6 Gorbachev’s Argument for Perestroika: Forgotten or Remembered? 7 "The Blind Remembrance!": Rhetorical Tensions in the 1962 Emancipation Proclamation Centennial 8 Recovering Nature: Memory and Scientific Argument at the American Museum of Natural History 9 The Agency of the Archive and the Challenges of Classification Memory in Service of Argument 10 Conspiracy as Legal Doctrine and Historiographical Framework: From the Nuremberg Trials to Contemporary Holocaust Denial Discourse 11 Recovering Patton’s Speech: Materializing Persistent Arguments 12 The Irony of Originalist Arguments in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 13 Argument Constellations in Voting Rights Debates Recovering Legacies of Argumentation 14 Me and Michael McGee: Recovering an Isocratean Tradition in the Art of Argumentation 15 Recovering Argumentation’s Figurative Domain PART II: Recovering Argument in Public/Politics Argument and the Public Sphere 16 Recovering Rational Argument: A Case Study of Vaccine Skeptics 17 Carbon Sink: Higher Education and the Liberal Public Sphere 18 Challenges to Recovering Arguments Once Challenged in the Public Sphere 19 Fact-Checking and the Liberal Public Sphere: Can Argument be Recovered? 20 Recovering the Potential of Argument in the Public Sphere: Moms Demand Action and Threats of Gendered Violence in the Gun Control Debate Health and/of Argument 21 Recovering Trust: Mothers’ Anti-Vax to Pro-Vax Conversions 22 Recovering From Autism: A Rhetorical Perspective 23 The Logic(s) of Diagnosis: An Argumentative Analysis of Controversy Over the Inclusion of PTSD in Official Psychiatric Nomenclature (1975-1978) 24 Healthy Disagreement: Exploring Medical Controversies Through Structured Public Debates 25 Recovering From Pathological Argumentation: A Theory of Argument Systems and Intersubjective Psychosis Health(y) Argument About Ebola 26 When Things Argue 27 Ebola, Reason, and Fear 28 Recovering Productive Pity to Motivate Americans to Corrective Action on Africa’s Ebola Crisis: Lessons From Kenneth Burke and Senator Christopher Coons 29 Ebola and the Liberal Public Sphere 30 The Ebola Crisis as an Interfield Dispute Argument and Terror 31 The Case of Shura City: Rhetorical Cartography, Argument Mapping, and the Global War on Terror 32 Discovering and Recovering Arguments About Terror: Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama in Comparative Perspective 33 Recovering Argument by Dissociation: ISIL, Hyatt Boumeddiene, and the Networked Security State Recovering Leadership Through Argument 34 Recovering Cross-Cultural Audience(s) in Presidential Public Argument 35 Sisi, Anticatēgoria, and Recovering Egypt 36 Problematic Constraints on the Successful Exercise of Leadership, Their Negative Impact, Palliative Measures, and Argument as a More Effective Remedy 37 Recovering Responsibility: The Rhetoric of Responsibility in Presidential Policy Debates 38 Prime Minister Abe’s Critical Turn: From the Ideology of A Beautiful Country to the Metaphor of Three Arrows Public Argument on Social Media 39 Twitter: How Terministic Screens Polarize Presidential Debates 40 Perspective by Incongruity in Internet Memes: The Case of the Japanese Hostage Crisis (2015) 41 Digital Conspiracy Argument and the Recovery of Nonverbal Communication as Signs of Complicity 42 Arguments for Everybody: Social Media, Context Collapse, and the Universal Audience Part III: Recovering Argument in Theory and Criticism The Challenge of Gender 43 The Subversive Sister: An Analysis of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Appropriation of Masculine Classical Form 44 Recovery as Discovery: Finding Lucy 45 Argumentation in the Identity Politics of the Trans Selfie: Recovering Greek Mythology to Analyze Contemporary Gender Arguments 46 The Restrained Tongue: Recovering Bathsua Makin’s Weapon in 17th-Century England 47 Recovering Bodies of Argument: Refuting Rape Rationalizations in Public Discourse 48 Virtual Violations: Shaming Rape Victims via Social Media Memes 49 Recovering Rape: Sexual Violence in Women’s Public Address in the United States, 1848-1915 The Challenge of Presentational Arguments 50 Genre, Modality, and Written Rap Battles: A Preliminary Investigation 51 A Critical Recovery of Images as Arguments: Manipulation, Distortion, and Debating Abortion 52 Evental Images and the Generation of Argument 53 Corporeal Anxiety: The Visual Argumentation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Tips From Former Smokers Advertisements 54 Recovering Tragedy: Tragic Argument and Nonviolent Protest 55 Examining Presentational Devices: Strategic Maneuvering in Lipitor’s Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising The Challenge of Interpersonal Arguments 56 Emotions, Perceived Resolvability, and Conflict Strategy Usage in K-12 Parent-Teacher Serial Arguments 57 Clarifying the Idea of Argument Stakes 58 A New Measurement for Argument Topic Interdependence in Serial Arguments 59 Lines of Argument in Regulative Messages: Comparisons Across Three Decades The Challenges of/to Academic Debate 60 Recovering Debate Coaches as Civic Figures: Highly Active Debate Coaches, Their Participation in Civic Outreach Activities, and Reward Perceptions 61 Pathos in Intercollegiate Debate: Emotion as an Argumentative Warrant 62 Recovering and Celebrating Controversy: Justifications for Intercollegiate Policy Debate for the 21st Century 63 Debate as Oral Activity Recovering Genres of Discursive Argument 64 Recovering the Scientific Polemic: Alfred Kinsey’s Rhetoric 65 Recovering That Which Never was Truly Lost: Richard McKeon, the United Nations, and the Importance of Democracy in a World of Tensions 66 Dissenting to Dispassion: Recovering Pathos in Judicial Rhetoric Through Harry Blackmun’s Opinion in Callins v. Collins 67 Recovering the Argumentative Limits of the Open Letter: Jackie Robinson’s Open Letters