Being a citizen is not just about holding a passport or being allowed to vote. It is also about how we communicate with each other about common societal issues. Rhetorical citizenship is about how we as citizens participate in society by means of discourse. How do we talk and write about civic issues? How are we addressed? How do we listen?

This book presents studies from different academic fields of theoretical issues raised by public discourse, focusing on understanding and evaluating how its many manifestations both reflect, shape, and challenge the society it is a part of. The book also presents analyses of examples from around the world of civic communication, ranging from public hearings about same-sex marriage over polemical letters to the editor to public displays of knitting as a protest form.

Christian Kock is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen.

Lisa Villadsen is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Head of the Section of Rhetoric and Head of Studies in the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen.

Contents
Introduction
Rhetorical Citizenship as a Conceptual Frame: What We Talk About
When We Talk About Rhetorical Citizenship
christian kock and lisa villadsen 9
part i Rhetorical Criticism from the Viewpoint of Rhetorical Citizenship
Is Rhetorical Criticism Subversive of Democracy?
david zarefsky 29
On Rhetorical Ethos and Personal Deeds: A 2011 Spanish
Public Controversy
paula olmos 51
The Hunt for Promises in Danish Political Debate
charlotte jørgensen 67
“Keep[ing] Profits at a Reasonably Low Rate”: Invoking American
Civil Religion in FDR’s Rhetoric of Tax Equity and Citizenship
nathalie kuroiwa-lewis 81
Yarn Bombing: Claiming Rhetorical Citizenship in Public Spaces
maureen daly goggin 93
On Trees: Protest between the Symbolic and the Material
kati hannken-illjes 117
“Cicero Would Love This Show”: The Celebration of Rhetoric and
Citizenship in The West Wing
anne ulrich 131
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part ii Studies in the Practice and Cultivation of Rhetorical Citizenship
Rhetorical Citizenship in Public Meetings: The Character of Religious
Expression in American Discourse
karen tracy 149
Voice, Listening, and Telling Stories: The Communicative Construction
of Rhetorical Citizenship in Small Groups
carolyne lee and judy burnside-lawry 167
Argumentative Literacy and Rhetorical Citizenship: The Case of
Genetically Modified Food in the Institutional Setting of a Greek
Primary School
fotini egglezou 183
“People Power” in Philippine Presidential Rhetoric: (Re)framing
Democratic Participation in Post-authoritarian Regimes
gene segarra navera 205
On Being a Simple Judge: Exploring Rhetorical Citizenship in
Aristotelian and Homeric Rhetorics
mari lee mifsud 223
The Rhetorical Citizen: Enacting Agency
raymie e. mckerrow 239
part iii Crossing Borders, Disciplinary, Political and Otherwise
Online Civic Participation, Discourse Analysis and Rhetorical
Citizenship
peter dahlgren 257
“A Stowaway of Emigration”: Polarization in Hafid Bouazza’s Work
hilde van belle 273
Extending Civic Rhetoric: Valuing Rhetorical Dimensions of
Global Citizenship in Civic Education
rebecca a. kuehl 291
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Rhetorical Citizenship beyond the Frontiers of Capitalism:
Marx Reloaded and the Dueling Myths of the Commodity and
the Common
catherine chaput 309
A Game with Words: Rhetorical Citizenship and Game Theory
tom deneire, david eelbode and jeroen lauwers 323
Contributors 341
Index of Scholarly Sources 343
Contemporary