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The rhetorical limits of polysemy
- C. Condit
- Sociology
- 1 June 1989
Current critical studies emphasize the way in which the polysemic qualities of mass mediated texts empower audiences to construct their own liberating readings. An examination of the text, audience…
Decoding Abortion Rhetoric: Communicating Social Change
- C. Condit
- Sociology
- 1 December 1989
Hegemony in a mass-mediated society: concordance about reproductive technologies.
- C. Condit
- SociologyCritical studies in mass communication : CSMC : a…
- 1 September 1994
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The functions of epideictic: The Boston massacre orations as exemplar
- C. Condit
- Art
- 1 September 1985
Existing theories of epideictic focus on the content of the speeches as “praise and blame,”; on the speaker's uses of the event or, more recently, on the audience's uses of the event. This essay…
Crafting Equality: America's Anglo-African Word
- C. Condit, J. Lucaites
- Sociology
- 1993
Philosophers and historians often treat fundamental concepts like equality as if they existed only as fixed ideas found solely in the canonical texts of civilization. In "Crafting Equality," Celeste…
The psychometric property and validation of a fatalism scale
- Lijiang Shen, C. Condit, Lanelle Wright
- PsychologyPsychology & health
- 27 May 2009
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Warranted concerns, warranted outlooks: a focus group study of public understandings of genetic research.
- B. Bates, John A. Lynch, J. Bevan, C. Condit
- Political ScienceSocial science & medicine
- 2005
How the public understands genetics: non-deterministic and non-discriminatory interpretations of the “blueprint” metaphor
- C. Condit
- Sociology
- 1 July 1999
Critics have worried that recent mass media coverage of genetics encourages genetic determinism and discriminatory attitudes in the public. They have identified the “blueprint” metaphor as one major…
The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity
- C. Condit
- Political Science
- 1999
This text takes a searching look at societal hopes and fears about genetics in the course of the 20th century. The work of scientists and doctors in advancing genetic research and its applications…
Public understandings of genetics and health
- C. Condit
- MedicineClinical genetics
- 1 January 2010
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