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Mere civility : disagreement and the limits of toleration
Civility is often treated as an essential virtue in liberal democracies that promise to protect diversity as well as active disagreement in the public sphere. Yet the fear that our tolerant society faces a crisis of incivility is gaining ground. Politicians and public intellectuals call for \"more civility\" as the solution--but is civility really a virtue? Or is it something more sinister--a covert demand for conformity that silences dissent? Mere Civility sheds light on this tension in contemporary political theory and practice by examining similar appeals to civility in early modern debates about religious toleration. In seventeenth-century England, figures as different as Roger Williams, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke could agree that some restraint on the wars of words and \"persecution of the tongue\" between sectarians would be required; and yet, they recognized that the prosecution of incivility was often difficult to distinguish from persecution.-- Provided by publisher
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Beyond Civility
From the pundits to the polls, nearly everyone seems to agree
that US politics have rarely been more fractious, and calls for a
return to \"civil discourse\" abound. Yet it is also true that the
requirements of polite discourse effectively silence those who are
not in power, gaming the system against the disenfranchised. What,
then, should a democracy do?
This book makes a case for understanding civility in a different
light. Examining the history of the concept and its basis in
communication and political theory, William Keith and Robert
Danisch present a clear, robust analysis of civil discourse.
Distinguishing it from politeness, they claim that civil argument
must be redirected from the goal of political comity to that of
building and maintaining relationships of minimal respect in the
public sphere. They also take into account how civility enables
discrimination, indicating conditions under which uncivil
resistance is called for. When viewed as a communication practice
for uniting people with differences and making them more equal,
civility is transformed from a preferable way of speaking into an
essential component of democratic life.
Guarding against uncritical endorsement of civility as well as
skepticism, Keith and Danisch show with rigor, nuance, and care
that the practice of civil communication is both paradoxical and
sorely needed. Beyond Civility is necessary reading for
our times.
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The Palgrave handbook of linguistic (im)politeness
This handbook comprehensively examines social interaction by providing a critical overview of the field of linguistic politeness and impoliteness.Authored by over forty leading scholars, it offers a diverse and multidisciplinary approach to a vast array of themes that are vital to the study of interpersonal communication.
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Law Schools, Professionalism, and the First Amendment
After students at Stanford Law School disrupted a Federalist Society event featuring Judge Kyle Duncan in March 2023, then-Dean Jenny Martinez issued a lengthy statement recognizing that \"offensive, vulgar, or provocative\" expression at campus events is \"perhaps constitutionally protected\" but argued \"it is within our educational mandate to address with students the norms of the legal profession.\" This Essay takes seriously Dean Martinez's appeal to professional norms and broadly examines whether and when the regulation of law students' \"unprofessional\" speech would be consistent with the First Amendment. This inquiry is particularly timely because the ABA has adopted a new accreditation standard requiring law schools to have policies protecting academic freedom and free expression.
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The Politics of Eloquence
Drawing on Hume's philosophical, historical, and popular writings,The Politics of Eloquencepresents an understanding of rhetoric that can be properly ascribed to this important thinker, an understanding hitherto overlooked in the scholarly literature.
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Ceremony and civility : civic culture in late medieval London
\"Medieval London, like all premodern cities, had a largely immigrant population--only a small proportion of the inhabitants were citizens--and the newly arrived needed to be taught the civic culture of the city in order for that city to function peacefully. Ritual and ceremony played key roles in this acculturation process. In Ceremony and Civility, Barbara A. Hanawalt shows how, in the late Middle Ages, London's elected officials and elites used ceremony and ritual to establish their legitimacy and power. In a society in which hierarchical authority was most commonly determined by inheritance of title and office, or sanctified by ordination, civic officials who had been elected to their posts relied on rituals to cement their authority and dominance. Elections and inaugurations had to be very public and visually distinct in order to quickly communicate with the masses: the robes of office needed to distinguish the officers so that everyone would know who they were. The result was a colorful civic pageantry. Newcomers found their places within this structure in various ways. Apprentices entering the city to take up a trade were educated in civic culture by their masters. Gilds similarly used rituals, oath swearing, and distinctive livery to mark their members' belonging. But these public shows of belonging and orderly civic life also had a dark side. Those who rebelled against authority and broke the civic ordinances were made spectacles through ritual humiliations and public parades through the streets so that others could take heed of these offenders of the law. An accessible look at late medieval London through the lens of civic ceremonies and dispute resolution, Ceremony and Civility synthesizes archival research with existing scholarship to show how an ever-shifting population was enculturated into premodern London\"--Provided by publisher.
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A Pragmatic Study of Derogation in American Election Campaign Speeches
Language is sometimes used for influencing people negatively. This is done via the use of various derogatory strategies. Therefore, the present study deals with derogation pragmatically in American election campaign speeches. Precisely, the current work attempts to answer the following questions: (1) How is derogation approached pragmatically in American election campaign speeches? (2) Through which impoliteness strategies is derogation realized? (3) What is the target of derogation? Is it the public face or the personal face? And what are the foci of derogation? The study aims to find answers to the previous questions through reviewing the literature related to derogation and adopting an eclectic model for analyzing the data under investigation. Besides, a statistical means represented by the percentage equation is used to calculate the results. The main conclusion is that American presidential rivals use different impoliteness strategies to derogate each other; through this derogation either the public face or the personal face is threatened.
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