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Narration as a human communication paradigm: The case of public moral argument

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  • Walter R. Fisher is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California. He wishes to acknowledge the constructive readings of early drafts of this essay by Ernest G. Bormann, Kenneth Burke, W. Lance Bennett, Wayne Brockriede, John Angus Campbell, Bruce E. Gronbeck, Michael Calvin McGee, John S. Nelson, Calvin O. Schrag, and Herbert W. Simons.

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