Background
Hart, Roderick P. was born on February 17, 1945 in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States. Son of R. P. and Mary Claire (Sullivan) Hart.
( A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the anal...)
A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the analysis of public rhetoric, Modern Rhetorical Criticism teaches readers how to examine and interpret rhetorical situations, ideas, arguments, structure, and style. The text covers a wide range of critical techniques, from cultural and dramatistic analysis to feminist and Marxist approaches. A wealth of original criticism demonstrates how to analyze such diverse forms as junk mail, congressional debates, and traffic regulations, as well as literature. This long-awaited revision contains new coverage of mass media, feminist criticism, and European criticism.
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( Roderick P Hart's Revised Edition of Seducing America i...)
Roderick P Hart's Revised Edition of Seducing America is a revealing examination of how television's format of presenting politics has changed the way viewers act, vote and feel about politics in the United States. With a rigorous blend of rhetorical and statistical research, Hart asserts that while television makes viewers feel knowledgeable, important, informed and close to the political representatives, it disguises increasing apathy and inaction as voter turnouts decrease and a general dissatisfaction with the political system is expressed.
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( Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believ...)
Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believe that what politicians say in a campaign actually matters. He also believes that campaigns work. Even as television coverage, political ads, and opinion polls turn elections into field days for marketing professionals, Hart argues convincingly that campaigns do play their role in sustaining democracy, mainly because they bring about a dialogue among candidates, the press, and the people. Here he takes a close look at the exchange of ideas through language used in campaign speeches, political advertising, public debates, print and broadcast news, and a wide variety of letters to the editor. In each case, the participants choose their words differently, and this, according to Hart, can be a frustrating challenge to anyone trying to make sense of the issues. Yet he finds that the process is good for Americans: campaigns inform us about issues, sensitize us to the concerns of others, and either encourage us to vote or at least heighten our sense of the political world. Hart comes to his conclusions by using DICTION, a computer program that has enabled him to unearth substantive data, such as the many subtle shifts found in political language, over the past fifty years. This approach yields a rich variety of insights, including empirically based explanations of impressions created by political candidates. For example, in 1996 Bill Clinton successfully connected with voters by using many human-interest words--"you," "us," "people," "family." Bob Dole, however, alienated the public and even undermined his own claims of optimism by using an abundance of denial words--"can't," "shouldn't," "couldn't." Hart also tracks issue buzzwords such as "Medicare" to show how candidates and voters define and readjust their positions throughout the campaign dialogue. In the midst of today's increased media hype surrounding elections, Americans and the candidates they elect do seem to be listening to each other--as much as they did in years gone by. Hart's wide-ranging, objective investigation upends many of our stereotypes about political life and presents a new, more bracing, understanding of contemporary electoral behavior.
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( Why did Gerald Ford speak in public once every six hour...)
Why did Gerald Ford speak in public once every six hours during 1976? Why did no president spreak in Massachusetts during one ten-year period? Why did Jimmy Carter conduct public ceremonies four times more often than Harry Truman? Why are television viewers two-and-a-half times more likely to see a president speak on the nightly news than to hear him speak? The Sound of Leadership answers these questions and many more. Based on analysis of nearly 10,000 presidential speeches delivered between 1945 and 1985, this book is the first comprehensive examination of the ways in which presidents Truman through Reagan have used the powers of communication to advance their political goals. This communication revolution has produced, Roderick P. Hart argues, a new form of governance, one in which public speech has come to be taken as political action. Using a rhetorical appraoch, Hart details the features of this new American presidency by carefully examining when and where presidents spoke in public during the last four decades and what they said. Even though presidents have been speaking more and more, Hart reveals, they have been saying less and less. Rather than leading the nation, the modern president usually offers only the hollow "sound" of leadership. Written with great flair and acuteness, The Sound of Leadership will become a standard guide to the voices of modern presidential politics.
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researcher author communications educator
Hart, Roderick P. was born on February 17, 1945 in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States. Son of R. P. and Mary Claire (Sullivan) Hart.
Bachelor of Arts, University Massachusetts, 1966; Master of Arts, Pennsylvania State University, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, 1970.
Assistant professor, associate professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1970-1979; professor, University Texas, Austin, 1979-1983; Liddell professor communications, professor government, University Texas, Austin, since 1983.
( Why did Gerald Ford speak in public once every six hour...)
( A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the anal...)
( Roderick P Hart's Revised Edition of Seducing America i...)
( Roderick Hart may be among the few Americans who believ...)
(Great textbook for students of rhetoric)
Fellow International Communications Association. Member International Society Political Psychology, Center for Study of Presidency, National Communications Association (chairman research board 1981-1984, annual monograph award 1972, 74, 83, Woolbert Research award 1984, Distinguished scholar 1996).
Married Margaret Louise McVey, August 27, 1966. Children– Christopher, Kathleen.