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NCA Public Address Division: A Conversation with the Zborays

January 27th, 2012, by Elizabeth Watts Pope

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We are delighted to republish a piece from the Public Address Division of the National Communication Association. The article that appears below is the first of their series of scholarly conversations they are calling Vibrant Voices of Public Address. This first conversation is with Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray — both of whom [...]


“You Lie!”: Uncivil Discourse, Past and Present

April 8th, 2010, by Elizabeth Watts Pope

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If you thought the tension and incivility between political parties in America couldn’t get any worse than it has been recently, then you haven’t spent enough time with nineteenth century political cartoons. Today I don’t think you could get away with publishing an image like “The Philosophic Cock” (in the new fully illustrated online inventory [...]