Lisa M. Gring-Pemble

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The Rhetorical Construction of American Welfare Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

Gring-Pemble asserts that the role of language in shaping policy options is rarely studied and poorly understood. She seeks to analyze congressional hearings and debates on welfare to understand the role of language in framing welfare policy and contemporary welfare discussions.

She reviews welfare history in the United States and provides a rhetorical analysis of welfare deliberations. In the process she illustrates the significance of language and ideology in shaping American social policy outcomes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313059605
• Artikelnr.: 37831932

Autorenporträt

LISA M. GRING-PEMBLE is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at George Mason University.

Inhaltsangabe

The Changing Faces of American Welfare Policy: Historical Roots of
Contemporary Welfare Legislation Welfare Legislation Is Symbolic: An
Introduction American Social Welfare Policy in Context, 1600-1935 American
Social Welfare Policy in Context, 1940-2002 Rhetorical Constructions of
Welfare Recipients and Welfare Families in United States Congressional
Hearing and Debates "Are We Going to Now Govern by Anecdote?": Rhetorical
Constructions of Welfare Recipients in the Congressional Hearings, Debates,
and Legislation, 1992-2002 Legislating a "Normal Classic Family": The
Rhetorical Construction of Families in American Welfare Policy The
Rhetorical Force of Depiction in American Welfare Policy In Search of an
Exigence to Warrant Reform: Public Opinion, Policy Research, and Anecdotal
Evidence American Welfare Policy and the Ineluctable Appeal of Language:
Conclusion and Implications