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Hendrickson, Aletha Staunton.

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The rhetoric of intimidation: A study in the rhetoric of institutional power.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The rhetoric of intimidation: A study in the rhetoric of institutional power./
Author:	Hendrickson, Aletha Staunton.
Description:	402 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-05, Section: A, page: 1785.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-05A.
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9327425

The rhetoric of intimidation: A study in the rhetoric of institutional power.
Hendrickson, Aletha Staunton.

The rhetoric of intimidation: A study in the rhetoric of institutional power. - 402 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-05, Section: A, page: 1785.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 1993.

This study of the rhetoric of institutional power explores the rhetorical situation of intimidatory institutional texts including rhetors, audiences, purposes, exigencies, constraints, writing genres, and intrinsic and extrinsic ethos. Three rhetor/audience relationships (modes) are examined: top-down, peer, and bottom-up. Intimidatory institutional texts incorporate rhetorical and linguistic features designed to trigger desired audience response. The following topics and texts are considered:Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Language, Linguistics.

The rhetoric of intimidation: A study in the rhetoric of institutional power.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 1993.
520 $a This study of the rhetoric of institutional power explores the rhetorical situation of intimidatory institutional texts including rhetors, audiences, purposes, exigencies, constraints, writing genres, and intrinsic and extrinsic ethos. Three rhetor/audience relationships (modes) are examined: top-down, peer, and bottom-up. Intimidatory institutional texts incorporate rhetorical and linguistic features designed to trigger desired audience response. The following topics and texts are considered:
520 $a Introduction. Intimidatory and coercive acts, agents, victims (targets), methods, warrants, exigencies, and connections are detailed. Intimidation is distinguished from its near peer, coercion, and defined: "Institutional intimidation is the feeling of awe, fear, and unworthiness deliberately triggered by rhetors, and experienced by those psychologically disposed to react to persons, objects, or situations perceived as threatening." Chapter I. The exigencies of intimidation include fear, power, and authority. Intimidatory academic policies are analyzed for footing, face wants, and intimidation. Chapter II. Top-down intimidation (power-holders exert pressure on power-subjects) is analyzed in collection letters and an IRS Notice of Deficiency. Chapter III. Top-down rhetors who are legally, morally, or operationally constrained from exerting intimidatory pressure on their power-subjects employ peer intimidation as illustrated through analyses of a commuter brochure and a corporation memo pressing employees to accept early retirement. Chapters IV and V. Powerless institutional rhetors who lack a relationship with their targets resort to covert and overt bottom-up intimidation to exert indirect pressure as exemplified by the Seldane-D ad and the political "Step Aside for America" campaign aimed at Dan Quayle, respectively. Chapter VI. Benign and destructive intimidation's effect on anxious writers is examined in treating symptoms of writing apprehension (avoidance, denial, hostility, controlling, and learning behaviors).
520 $a Institutional intimidation is a socio/psychological phenomenon that affects intimidators and intimidatees positively and negatively. Inappropriately applied intimidation can cause readers to revolt as the IRS discovered when the Taxpayers Bill of Rights was enacted. Thus, textual intimidation "can be a useful, powerful weapon in the arsenals of certain writings of authority--but a sensitive weapon that should be used with caution: it has a tendency to fire at both ends."
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