Table of Contents
I. The Project of Local Theories of Argument Chapter 1: Do We Need Local Theories of Argument?
Chapter 2: (Counter) Mapping the Place and Time of Local Argument
Chapter 3: Georhetoric: Toward an Anthropology of Argument
II. Bodies and Identities
Chapter 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 People
Chapter 6: Beyond Participation, Toward Disparticipation: Contesting White Feminism at the 2017 Women’s March
Chapter 7: The Best a <man> Can Be? Understanding Localized Arguments about Portrayals in Gillette’s "We Believe" Advertisement
Chapter 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 Program
Chapter 10: Activating Memory: Digital Dialogue with Holographic Holocaust Survivors
Chapter 11: The Argumentative Dimensions of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) in People with Autism-Spectrum
Chapter 12: Where All Arguments are Local: Affective Arguments in Virginia’s Moral Debates about Blackface
Chapter 13: American Patriotism’s Invisible Racial Warrant: Repositioning Colin Kaepernick as a Black Critical Patriot
Chapter 14: Rhetorical Logics of Racist Accusation and Defense
Chapter 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)Justice
Chapter 17: Disrupting Local Logic: Dress Code Protests and Perelman’s Universal Audience in the Viral Age
Chapter 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 2012
Chapter 20: A Jeremiadic Eulogy: George W. Bush’s Defense of the Forum
Chapter 21: Local Symbols as Grounds for Policy Change in Mass Shooting Eulogies
Chapter 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 Hearings
Chapter 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 Hearings
Chapter 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 Evidence
Chapter 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 Frame
Chapter 32: Arguing with Family Members about the 2016 Presidential Election
Chapter 33: (In)civility and the Modern Presidency: Presidential Constructions of a Complex Idea
Chapter 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 Rallies
IV. Historical United States
Chapter 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 States
Chapter 38: President Calvin Coolidge’s Local Argumentation: Resolving Questions of Race
V. China Chapter 39: Local Argument Spheres in China: A Case Study of the Debate Show Qipashuo
Chapter 40: Implying with Analogy and Quoting Authoritative Works: The Argumentation in Yen T’ieh Lun
Chapter 41: Chinese Argumentation in War Rhetoric: A Case Study of Soong Meiling’s Speech at the U.S. Congress on February 18th, 1943
Chapter 42: A Comparative Study of Mediated Public Arguments on Trump’s Trade War in the United States and China
VI. Japan
Chapter 43: Toward Local Theories of Japanese Argumentation: Contexts and Strategies
Chapter 44: Shinzo Abe's Not So Beautiful Lies, or How He Stopped Worrying about Embarrassing Himself in Public
Chapter 45: Proving Sontaku (Surmising of Wishes) at the Japanese National Diet: Attempts to Prove What No One Can Prove
Chapter 46: A Critical Analysis of Meta-Arguments in the National Diet of Japan: The Case of a Debate over Security Legislation in 2015
Chapter 47: How Japan Neglects Workers of Foreign Nationalities: An Analysis of Immigration Control Controversies in the National Diet
Chapter 48: Argumentation in Epideictic Oratory at the Annual State Ritual of March 11 Disaster
VII. Other Parts of the World
Chapter 49: Multiple Temporalities of the Idomeni Camp in Greece
Chapter 50: "Democracy" and Putin’s "Nation:" Pathways for Definitional Argument
VIII. New Media
Chapter 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 Algorithm
Chapter 54: New Media and Old Coffee: How Local Styles of Town Hall Meetings Reconfigure a Dialectical Tradition
Chapter 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 2019
Chapter 57: Memes as Quasi-Argument: An Insidious Threat to Public Debate
IX. Dinner
Chapter 58: Local Argument Through Presence in Holocaust Cookbooks
Chapter 59: Dissociation, Multimodal Argument, Sean Brock, and the Local
X. Local Places
Chapter 60: Dissociating Means and Ends: Expanding Education Markets and Diminishing Democratic Deliberation
Chapter 61: Modernizing Racism: The Localization of Settler-Colonial Logics in Utah House Bill 93
Chapter 62: The Bensenville Pause: Argumentation, Sound Figuration, and Local Sound Cultures
XI. Pedagogy and the Modern University
Chapter 63: Civic Education through Rhetorical Principles
Chapter 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 Portfolios
Chapter 66: Developing the Whole Director: A Flexible Framework for Professional Development for Intercollegiate Debate
Chapter 67: Assessing Tenure-Track Debate Program Directors: Augmenting Intercollegiate Debate Programs with Service Learning Opportunities in Local University Contexts
Chapter 68: Assessing Argumentation Literacy
XII. Legal Issues
Chapter 69: The Counterside Problem: Blackmun’s Tie-Breaking in Roe v. Wade
Chapter 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 Justification
Chapter 73: Communicative Competence and Local Theories of Argumentation: The Case of Academic Citational Practices
Chapter 74: General and Local Theories of Argument in Late Modernity
Chapter 75: Does the Rhyme Chime? Evaluating the Persuasiveness of a Rhyming Weather Message
Chapter 76: A Temporally Local Theory of Polarizing Argumentative Style
Chapter 77: Large and Small: Motivated Interpretations of Statistical Evidence
Chapter 78: Local Theories of Argument and Immanent Obligations: Inciting an Askesis
