Concepedia

Movements: Confrontation as rhetorical form

Robert S. Cathcart

Southern Speech Communication Journal · 1978 · 96 citations · 16 references

Concepts

Social SciencesSociologyDiscourse AnalysisRhetoricRhetorical StudiesActivismRhetorical CriticismSocial Movement TheoryAgonistic BehaviorConfrontational RepertoiresRhetoric Of Social Movements

Abstract

The author of this essay argues the thesis that the true movement is a kind of “agonistic ritual” whose most distinguishing form is confrontation.

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