@article{zagacki_maldonado_2023, title={Aporia in Barack Obama's 2016 Dallas Police Memorial Speech}, ISSN={["1930-322X"]}, DOI={10.1080/02773945.2023.2264829}, abstractNote={On 13 July 2016, President Barack Obama delivered a speech memorializing five police officers slain during a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas, Texas. Obama’s speech came on the heels of many other mass shootings, some associated with acts of racialized violence, during his administration. We argue that by deploying aporia, Obama addressed the conflicting constraints and exigencies exposed by the Dallas shooting and opened inventional possibilities that included virtuous behavior, commemorative speech, and dialogic-reciprocal encounters that also reappraised the concept of double consciousness. We conclude by exploring how aporia enables and undercuts discussions of complex social problems during epideictic encounters.}, journal={RHETORIC SOCIETY QUARTERLY}, author={Zagacki, Kenneth and Maldonado, Chandra A.}, year={2023}, month={Nov} }
 @article{zagacki_rosenfeld_2023, title={More-Than-Human Ethics of Care in the Poetry of Mary Oliver}, volume={3}, ISSN={1057-0314 1745-1027}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2023.2186751}, DOI={10.1080/10570314.2023.2186751}, abstractNote={This essay examines how Mary Oliver’s poetry enacts an ethic of care that encourages the reconsideration of boundaries between human-nonhuman worlds and the intrinsically valuable nature of human-nonhuman relationships. Her poems evoke environmental awareness disarticulated from information-deficit models of ecological behavior and remain attuned to modes of thinking-with, thinking-for, and dissenting-within human-nonhuman relationships.}, journal={Western Journal of Communication}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Zagacki, Kenneth and Rosenfeld, Cynthia}, year={2023}, month={Mar}, pages={1–20} }
 @article{zagacki_2014, title={Thomas Aquinas on Persuasion: Action, Ends, and Natural Rhetoric}, volume={33}, ISSN={["1532-7981"]}, DOI={10.1080/07350198.2014.947880}, number={4}, journal={RHETORIC REVIEW}, author={Zagacki, Kenneth S.}, year={2014}, pages={439–442} }
 @article{grano_zagacki_2011, title={Cleansing the Superdome: The Paradox of Purity and Post-Katrina Guilt}, volume={97}, ISSN={["1479-5779"]}, DOI={10.1080/00335630.2011.560175}, abstractNote={The reopening of the New Orleans Superdome after Hurricane Katrina on Monday Night Football dramatized problematic rhetorical, visual, and spatial norms of purification rituals bound up in what Burke calls the paradox of purity. Hurricane Katrina was significant as a visually traumatic event in large part because it signified the ghetto as a rarely discussed remainder of American structural racism and pressed the filthiest visual and territorial residues of marginalized poverty into the national consciousness. In this essay, we argue that a visual paradox of purification—that purifying discourses must “be of the same symbolic substance” as the polluted images that goad them—complicated ritual attempts to both purge and commemorate Katrina evacuees. It is within the paradox of purity that visually grounded purification rituals like the Superdome reopening should be considered for their potential to invite or foreclose public engagement with race and class problems firmly entrenched in Americans’ perceptions of pollution and public territory.}, number={2}, journal={QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH}, author={Grano, Daniel A. and Zagacki, Kenneth S.}, year={2011}, pages={201–223} }
 @article{zagacki_gallagher_2009, title={Rhetoric and Materiality in the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art}, volume={95}, ISSN={["1479-5779"]}, DOI={10.1080/00335630902842087}, abstractNote={The material rhetoric of physical locations like the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art creates “spaces of attention” wherein visitors are invited to experience the landscape around them as a series of enactments that identify the inside/outside components of sub/urban existence, as well as the regenerative/transformative possibilities of such existence. Such rhetorical enactments create innovative opportunities for individuals to attend to the human/nature interface. These rhetorical enactments also create and contain tensions that come to the fore when they are employed as authentic mediations of nature, when they function as tropes to promote development of natural space, and/or when they are translated into discursive environmental argument.}, number={2}, journal={QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH}, author={Zagacki, Kenneth S. and Gallagher, Victoria J.}, year={2009}, pages={171–191} }
 @article{zagacki_2008, title={Preserving Heritage and Nature During the “War on Terrorism”: The North Carolina Outlying Landing Field (“OLF”) Controversy}, volume={73}, ISSN={1041-794X 1930-3203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10417940802418775}, DOI={10.1080/10417940802418775}, abstractNote={This paper investigates a controversy between the U.S. Navy and rural North Carolinians in which Navy officials tried to procure local property for a Navy training facility or outlying landing field (“OLF”). Analysis suggests that locals who defined themselves as patriotic, common sense agents, and the scene as heritage, built a more credible connection to a patriotic American ethos than did the rhetoric of the Navy, which defined the OLF debate primarily as part of the war on terrorism. The locals' ultimate success reveals the rhetorical possibilities and limitations of war on terrorism and local heritage arguments, which both constrain local advocates and widen their access to oppositional voices.}, number={4}, journal={Southern Communication Journal}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Zagacki, Kenneth S.}, year={2008}, month={Oct}, pages={261–279} }
 @article{jones_zagacki_lewis_2007, title={Communication, Liminality, and Hope: The September 11th Missing Person Posters}, volume={58}, ISSN={1051-0974 1745-1035}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10510970601168780}, DOI={10.1080/10510970601168780}, abstractNote={Immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, family and friends of victims missing in the towers began placing “Missing Person Posters” of their loved ones around New York City. In this paper, we argue that the posters represent a powerful response to a traumatic and in some ways unprecedented situation, a response that transformed the death of loved ones from a reality or future certainty into a probability made possible by the searchers' desire, emotions, or imagination. We demonstrate how the posters, operating in the “subjunctive” voice, transformed the “liminal” space between life and death and “haunted” onlookers, so that survivors and spectators alike could ponder the possibilities of a world that would “hopefully” turn out for the best. We also consider the implications of the posters for those who were unable to acknowledge the loss of their loved ones.}, number={1}, journal={Communication Studies}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Jones, Kevin T. and Zagacki, Kenneth S. and Lewis, Todd V.}, year={2007}, month={Feb}, pages={105–121} }
 @article{zagacki_2007, title={Constitutive Rhetoric Reconsidered: Constitutive Paradoxes in G. W. Bush's Iraq War Speeches}, volume={71}, ISSN={1057-0314 1745-1027}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10570310701653786}, DOI={10.1080/10570310701653786}, abstractNote={In the process of trying to create identification between Americans and the Iraqis, making them partners in a democratic founding, President G. W. Bush's Iraq war rhetoric contributed to conditions that were diametrically opposed to democratic transformation. His discourse, grounded in prophetic dualism, created what I refer to as “constitutive” paradoxes that reveal both limitations and reflexive possibilities of constitutive rhetorics.}, number={4}, journal={Western Journal of Communication}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Zagacki, Kenneth S.}, year={2007}, month={Nov}, pages={272–293} }
 @article{gallagher_zagacki_2007, title={Visibility and Rhetoric: Epiphanies and Transformations in the Life Photographs of the Selma Marches of 1965}, volume={37}, ISSN={0277-3945 1930-322X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02773940601016056}, DOI={10.1080/02773940601016056}, abstractNote={In this article, we contribute to scholarship on visibility and rhetoric by examining the way in which photographs published in march 1965 issues of life magazine functioned rhetorically to (1) evoke common humanity by capturing moments of embodiment and enactment that challenged the established images of blacks in the minds of whites and held up for scrutiny assumptions and power relationships that had long been taken for granted; (2) evoke common humanity by creating recognition of others through particularity; and (3) challenge taken–for-granted ideas of democracy, reminding viewers that a large gap existed between abstract political concepts like democracy and what was actually occurring in american streets. We conclude by considering the transformative capacity of photojournalism as it mediates between the universal and the particular, and enables viewers to experience epiphanic moments when issues, ideas, habits, and yearnings are crystallized into a single recognizable image.}, number={2}, journal={Rhetoric Society Quarterly}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Gallagher, Victoria J. and Zagacki, Kenneth S.}, year={2007}, month={Mar}, pages={113–135} }
 @article{zagacki_boleyn-fitzgerald_2006, title={Rhetoric and anger}, volume={39}, ISSN={["0031-8213"]}, DOI={10.1353/par.2007.0006}, abstractNote={Since most believe anger can be either good or bad, rhetors face a moral problem of determining when anger is appropriate and when it is not. They face a cor responding rhetorical problem in deciding when and how to express anger and determining the role that it might play in public discourse, with specific audi ences and in particular rhetorical situations. Rhetorical scholars have catalogued whole genres of angry rhetoric?apocalyptic genres, jeremiads, the demonizing rhetoric of religious and political leaders?wherein the rhetorical display of anger is explained in terms of situational conventions and cultural norms.1 Yet these scholars have not easily resolved the moral problems associated with angry rhetoric. Aristotle suggested the earliest and most obvious solutions to these problems. In the Nicomachean Ethics, he outlines a typology for discerning the moral limits of anger and, by implication, angry rhetoric. And in Book II of the Rhetoric he asserts that the orator needs to know the structure of emotions like}, number={4}, journal={PHILOSOPHY AND RHETORIC}, author={Zagacki, Kenneth S. and Boleyn-Fitzgerald, Patrick A.}, year={2006}, pages={290–309} }
 @article{zagacki_grano_2005, title={Radio sports talk and the fantasies of sport}, volume={134}, ISSN={["0361-0853"]}, DOI={10.1080/0739318042000331844}, abstractNote={Rhetorical analysis of radio talk shows in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, home of the Louisiana State University “Fighting Tigers” college football team, revealed that the talk shows gave Tiger fans opportunities to share creative interpretations of events. This helped them cope with moments of perceived crisis when the team lost, and solidified their identity as tied to regional pride and the values of work, race, and masculinity. The talk shows also promoted fantasies about college athletics, essentially designating the university's athletic tradition as the most important activity on campus. In this sense, radio sports talk helps blur the line between amateur and professional sports and oversimplifies the complex mission of higher education.}, number={3}, journal={MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING}, author={Zagacki, KS and Grano, D}, year={2005}, month={Mar}, pages={45–63} }
 @article{gallagher_zagacki_2005, title={Visibility and rhetoric: The power of visual images in Norman Rockwell's depictions of civil rights}, volume={91}, ISSN={["1479-5779"]}, DOI={10.1080/00335630500291448}, abstractNote={This essay demonstrates how visual works of art may operate rhetorically to articulate public knowledge, to illustrate the moral challenges facing citizens, and to shape commemorative practices, through an analysis of Norman Rockwell's civil rights paintings of the 1960s. By examining the rhetorical aspects of these paintings, including their form and composition, the essay demonstrates the power of visual works of art to evoke common humanity in three significant ways: (1) disregarding established caricatures; (2) creating recognition of others through particularity; and (3) depicting material aspects of American society, thereby reminding viewers that abstract political concepts are always relative to the individuals or groups whose lives are most directly influenced by their presence or absence.}, number={2}, journal={QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH}, author={Gallagher, V and Zagacki, KS}, year={2005}, month={May}, pages={175–200} }
 @article{zagacki_2003, title={Rhetoric, Dialogue, and Performance in Nelson Mandela's "Televised Address on the Assassination of Chris Hani"}, volume={6}, DOI={10.1353/rap.2004.0016}, abstractNote={

After the assassination of the popular black militant Chris Hani, Nelson
Mandela sought in his "Televised Address on the Assassination of Chris
Hani" to move beyond identity politics and to redefine the murder into
a moment of political and dialogic change. He praised Hani as a model of
proper political engagement, uncovered the dynamics of dialogue between
South Africans, and performed an alternative stance for the post-apartheid
era. Mandela's rhetoric reveals both the limitations and the possibilities
of performative rhetoric during difficult transitions to democracy.

}, number={4}, journal={Rhetoric & Public Affairs}, author={Zagacki, K. S.}, year={2003}, pages={709–736} }
 @article{warnick_hogan_zagacki_klinger_pym_bowers_bitzer_winchatz_stonehill_hasian_et al._1995, title={Book reviews}, volume={81}, ISSN={0033-5630 1479-5779}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00335639509384102}, DOI={10.1080/00335639509384102}, abstractNote={THE PRESIDENCY AND THE RHETORIC OF FOREIGN CRISIS. By Denise M. Bostdorff”. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993; pp. ix + 306. $34.95. PHILOSOPHY, RHETORIC, AND THE END OF KNOWLEDGE: THE COMING OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES. By Steve Fuller. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993; pp. ix + 421. Paper $22.50. RECONSTRUCTING ARGUMENTATIVE DISCOURSE. By Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, Sally Jackson, and Scott Jacobs. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993; pp. xiii + 197. $32.95. AGAINST ETHICS. By John D. Caputo. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993; pp. 292. $17.50 paper. THE RHETORIC OF RACISM. By Mark Lawrence McPhail. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1994; pp. 158 + xii. $36.50. THE SIXTH CANON: BELLETRISTIC RHETORICAL THEORY AND ITS FRENCH ANTECEDENTS. By Barbara Warnick. Foreword by Carroll C. Arnold. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993; pp. xii + 176. $34.95. DISCREET INDISCRETIONS: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF GOSSIP. By Jörg R. Bergmann. Foreword by Thomas Luckmann. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993; pp. v + 206. $42.95; paper $21.95. VISUAL LITERACY: IMAGE, MIND, & REALITY. By Paul Messaris. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994; pp. xii + 208. $59.00; paper $ 17.95. WORDS THAT WOUND: CRITICAL RACE THEORY, ASSAULTIVE SPEECH, AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT. By Mari J. Matsuda, Charles R. Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, and Kimberle Williams Crenshaw. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993; pp. vii + 153. $46.50; paper $15.95.}, number={1}, journal={Quarterly Journal of Speech}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Warnick, Barbara, Editor and Hogan, J. Michael and Zagacki, Kenneth S. and Klinger, Geoffrey D. and Pym, Anne L. and Bowers, Detine L. and Bitzer, Lloyd F. and Winchatz, Michaela R. and Stonehill, Brian and Hasian, Marouf, Jr. and et al.}, year={1995}, month={Feb}, pages={121–138} }
 @article{ivie_enos_pennington_walsh_johnstone_zagacki_mandziuk_sprague_king_schuetz_et al._1992, title={Book reviews}, volume={78}, ISSN={0033-5630 1479-5779}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00335639209383983}, DOI={10.1080/00335639209383983}, abstractNote={ARISTOTLE, RHETORIC II: A COMMENTARY. By William M.A. Grimaldi, S.J. New York: Fordham University Press, 1988. $65.00. SYMBOLS, THE NEWS MAGAZINES, AND MARTIN LUTHER KING. By Richard Lentz. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990; pp. ix + 376. $29.95. QI LAI! MOBILIZING ONE BILLION CHINESE: THE CHINESE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM. By Robert L. Bishop. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1989; pp. viii + 200. $24.95; paper $12.95. TALKING VOICES: REPETITION, DIALOGUE, AND IMAGERY IN CONVERSATIONAL DISCOURSE. By Deborah Tannen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989; pp. x + 240. $49.50; paper $14.95. A RHETORIC OF SCIENCE: INVENTING SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE. By Lawrence J. Prelli. Forward by Carroll C. Arnold. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989; pp. vii + 320. $29.95. BEYOND BOUNDARIES: SEX AND GENDER DIVERSITY IN COMMUNICATION. Edited by Cynthia M. Lont and Sheryl A. Friedley. Fairfax: George Mason University Press, 1989; pp. vii + 356. $42.50. GENDER IN THE CLASSROOM: POWER AND PEDAGOGY. Edited by Susan L. Gabriel and Isaiah Smithson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990; pp. 196. $29.95; paper $10.95. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER: THE DIFFUSION OF INFORMATION IN EARLY AMERICA, 1700–1865. By Richard D. Brown. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989; pp. xii + 372. $39.95. COMMUNICATION IN LEGAL ADVOCACY. By Richard D. Rieke and Randall K. Stutman. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1990, pp. ix + 245. $29.95. QUESTION‐REPLY ARGUMENTATION. By Douglas N. Walton. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989; pp. xi + 408. $39.95. COMMUNICATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE: A SOCIAL INTERPRETATION. By Wendy Leeds‐Hurwitz. Foreward by Arthur P. Bochner. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1989; pp. xxii + 203. $27.50. GETTING INTO THE GAME: THE PRE‐PRESIDENTIAL RHETORIC OF RONALD REAGAN. By Mary E. Stuckey. New York: Praeger, 1989; pp. 216. $39.95. SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION: SIGNIFYING CALLS AND THE POLICE RESPONSE. By Peter K. Manning. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1988; pp. xi + 309. $35.00. ATTITUDE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION. Edited by Anthony R. Pratkanis, Steven J. Breckler, and Anthony G. Greenwald. Forward by Daniel Katz. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989; pp. xiv + 462. $59.95; paper $29.95. INTENTIONS IN COMMUNICATION. Edited by Philip R. Cohen, Jerry Morgan, and Martha E. Pollack. Cambridge Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1990; pp. 520. $45.00.}, number={1}, journal={Quarterly Journal of Speech}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Ivie, Robert L., Editor and Enos, Richard Leo and Pennington, Dorthy L. and Walsh, James and Johnstone, Barbara and Zagacki, Kenneth S. and Mandziuk, Roseann M. and Sprague, Jo and King, Robert L. and Schuetz, Janice and et al.}, year={1992}, month={Feb}, pages={98–123} }
 @article{hikins_zagacki_1988, title={Rhetoric, philosophy, and objectivism: An attenuation of the claims of the rhetoric of inquiry}, volume={74}, ISSN={0033-5630 1479-5779}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00335638809383837}, DOI={10.1080/00335638809383837}, abstractNote={Rhetorical theory has for some decades exhibited an increasing tendency toward exploring the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. The result has been to view a wide range of activities, including science and philosophy, as inherently rhetorical. This essay examines recent attempts by a number of theorists to develop a “rhetoric of the human sciences,” or more generally, a “rhetoric of inquiry.” It is argued that contemporary tendencies to elevate rhetoric at the expense of such traditional notions as scientific objectivity, ontology, and epistemological foundationalism are mistaken. The authors conclude that the new rhetoric of inquiry must be significantly attenuated. The resulting reformulation preserves the roles of traditional philosophy and science, while establishing for rhetoric an important function of discovery in both theoretical inquiry and the realm of communicative praxis.}, number={2}, journal={Quarterly Journal of Speech}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Hikins, James W. and Zagacki, Kenneth S.}, year={1988}, month={May}, pages={201–228} }