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Transforming scandal into tragedy: A rhetoric of political apology

Robert L. King Associate Professor of English, Elms College, Chicopee, Massachusetts
Pages 289-301 | Published online: 05 Jun 2009

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Dustin Bradley Goltz & Jason Zingsheim. (2024) The performativity of comedic apologies. Text and Performance Quarterly 44:1, pages 15-31.
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KevinR. McClure & KristineM. Cabral. (2009) Clarifying Ambiguity and the Undecidable: A Comparison of Burkean and Derridean Thought. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication 10:1, pages 72-80.
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Michael-John DePalma, JeffreyM. Ringer & Jim Webber. (2008) (Re)Charting the (Dis)Courses of Faith and Politics, or Rhetoric and Democracy in the Burkean Barnyard. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 38:3, pages 311-334.
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JasonA. Edwards. (2005) Community-Focused Apologia in International Affairs: Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's Apology. Howard Journal of Communications 16:4, pages 317-336.
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Richard N. Armstrong, James R. Hallmark & L. Keith Williamson. (2005) Televangelism as Institutional Apologia: The Religious Talk Show as Strategized Text. Journal of Media and Religion 4:2, pages 67-83.
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Takeshi Suzuki & Frans H. van Eemeren. (2004) “This Painful Chapter”: An Analysis of Emperor Akihito's Apologia in the Context of Dutch Old Sores. Argumentation and Advocacy 41:2, pages 102-111.
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FloydD. Anderson & LawrenceJ. Prelli. (2001) Pentadic cartography: Mapping the universe of discourse. Quarterly Journal of Speech 87:1, pages 73-95.
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EdwardC. Appel. (1997) The rhetoric of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Comedy and context in tragic collision. Western Journal of Communication 61:4, pages 376-402.
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MarkP. Moore. (1997) Rhetorical subterfuge and “the principle of perfection,” part II: Bob Packwood's senate resignation. Southern Communication Journal 63:1, pages 37-55.
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MarkP. Moore. (1996) Rhetorical subterfuge and “the principle of perfection”: Bob Packwood's response to sexual misconduct charges. Western Journal of Communication 60:1, pages 1-20.
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JohnH. Powers. (1995) On the intellectual structure of the human communication discipline. Communication Education 44:3, pages 191-222.
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Keith Michael Hearit. (1995) “Mistakes were made”: Organizations, apologia, and crises of social legitimacy. Communication Studies 46:1-2, pages 1-17.
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KathrynM. Olson. (1994) Exploiting the tension between the news media's “objective” and adversarial roles: The role imbalance attack and its use of the implied audience. Communication Quarterly 42:1, pages 36-56.
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SharonD. Downey. (1993) The evolution of the rhetorical genre of apologia. Western Journal of Communication 57:1, pages 42-64.
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DeniseM. Bostdorff. (1991) Vice‐presidential comedy and the traditional female role: An examination of the rhetorical characteristics of the vice presidency. Western Journal of Speech Communication 55:1, pages 1-27.
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JudithD. Hoover. (1989) Big boys don't cry: The values constraint in apologia. Southern Communication Journal 54:3, pages 235-252.
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DavidS. Birdsell. (1987) Ronald Reagan on Lebanon and Grenada: Flexibility and interpretation in the application of Kenneth Burke's pentad. Quarterly Journal of Speech 73:3, pages 267-279.
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Keith M. Hearit. (2021) A blame narrative approach to apologetic crisis management: The serial apologiae of United Airlines. Public Relations Review 47:5, pages 102106.
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Michael L. Kent & Brandon C. Boatwright. (2018) Ritualistic sacrifice in crisis communication: A case for eliminating scapegoating from the crisis/apologia lexicon. Public Relations Review 44:4, pages 514-522.
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Juan Wang. (2017) What’s wrong with corruption? Messages from confessions in China. Crime, Law and Social Change 69:3, pages 447-463.
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Peter Benson. (2016) The crime of innocence and the depths of sorriness: Notes on apologies and reparations in the United States. Cultural Dynamics 28:2, pages 121-141.
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Steven L. Grover & Marcus C. Hasel. (2014) How Leaders Recover (or Not) from Publicized Sex Scandals. Journal of Business Ethics 129:1, pages 177-194.
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Gray CavenderKishonna Gray & Kenneth W. Miller. (2011) Enron’s perp walk: Status degradation ceremonies as narrative. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 6:3, pages 251-266.
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Keith Michael Hearit. (1994) Apologies and public relations crises at Chrysler, Toshiba, and Volvo. Public Relations Review 20:2, pages 113-125.
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