7. "American Humor" versus "Indian Humor": Indentity, ethos, and rhetorical situation

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1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Part I. Introduction
4. 1. Discourse analysis in rhetorical studies 3
5. Part II. Style and legitimation
6. Studying style and legitimation: Critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis 25
7. 2. Talking the (political) talk: Cold War refugees and their political legitimation through style 33
8. 3. Reporting Waco: The constitutive work of bureaucratic style 57
9. 4. The rhetoric of temporality: The future as linguistic construct and rhetorical resource 81
10. 5. The intertextual forging of epideictic discourse: Construals of victims in the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty Hearings 113
11. Part III. Identity and agency
12. Studying identity and agency: CDA, interactional sociolinguistics, narrative analysis, grounded theory 141
13. 6. Muted voices: Cochlear implants, news discourse, and the public fascination with curing deafness 147
14. 7. "American Humor" versus "Indian Humor": Indentity, ethos, and rhetorical situation 173
15. 8. Ethos and narrative in online educational chat 195
16. 9. Disciplinary rhetorics, rhetorical agency, and the construction of voice 227
17. Part IV. Entextualizing controversy
18. Studying entextualization and controversy: CDA, participant observation, computer-aided corpus analysis 249
19. 10. How a media controversy can influence a scientific publication: The case of Robert L. Spitzer’s “reparative therapy” study 255
20. 11. Controversy as a media event category 279
21. 12. Analyzing everyday talk about social issues 307
22. Index 327