“'Are we going to now govern by anecdote?’: Rhetorical constructions of welfare recipients in congressional hearings, debates, and legislation, 1992–1996”

Gring‐Pemble, Lisa M.

doi:10.1080/00335630109384345

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“…As discussed earlier, targets denied mental states (both desires and beliefs) but imputed behavioral potential inspire disgust and fear and are likened to pestilence, cockroaches, parasites, vermin, and other disease‐carriers. Targets of these metaphors include terrorists (Steuter & Wills, , ), homeless individuals (Amster, ), welfare recipients (Gring‐Pemble, p. 350), and immigrants (Green et al, ; O'Brien, ). These groups exhibit behavioral agency through their “swarming” and their ability to transfer contamination and spread disease, but they are denied mental states.…”

Section: The Abc Model's Account Of Dehumanizing Metaphorsmentioning

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Agency's Role in Dehumanization: Non‐human Metaphors of Out‐groups

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Ruscher

2014

Social & Personality Psych

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Dehumanization, the psychological process by which individuals or groups of individuals are denied human qualities or are believed to be less than human, has important negative consequences for intergroup relations: dehumanization reduces intergroup helping and excuses aggression towards members of other groups. Current models of dehumanization are unable to explain the variety of dehumanization that occurs in metaphorical thought. For example, they cannot account for the labeling of comatose individuals as “vegetables,” nor do they adequately distinguish between of humans as predators vs. metaphors of humans as prey. We argue that this results from the paucity of attention devoted to the role of agency in the dehumanization process. The ABC model of dehumanization proposed in this paper broadens the scope of dehumanization theory by describing three unique components of agency: affective, behavioral, and cognitive. This article then delineates how the differential attribution of agency components impacts emotional responses toward out‐groups in addition to the metaphors used to describe them. By incorporating both traditional types of dehumanization (extreme and overt negative evaluations) and ambivalent types of dehumanization (mixed positive and negative evaluations) into our model, we provide a more nuanced view of the dehumanization process that accounts for the variance in dehumanization by analogy.

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Section: The Abc Model's Account Of Dehumanizing Metaphorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agency's Role in Dehumanization: Non‐human Metaphors of Out‐groups

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Ruscher

2014

Social & Personality Psych

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“…Articles in the past 5 years have reiterated the utility of juxtaposition (Campbell, 1998;Cooper & Pease, 2002), petitioning (Zaeske, 2002), letter writing (Gring-Pemble, 1998), and humor or the comedic (Cooper & Pease, 2002;Demo, 2000). Most feminist scholars no longer expect to find "pure" tactics that can never go awry or be co-opted (Papa, Singhal, Ghanekar, & Papa, 2000), but they have argued that often devices such as synecdoche (Foss & Domenici, 2001), satire (Campbell, 1998;Gring-Pemble & Watson, 2003), reversal (Campbell, 1998;Hayden, 1999b), and narrative (Cooper & Pease, 2002;Fabj, 1998;Ford & Crabtree, 2002;Gring-Pemble, 2001;Schely-Newman, 1998) have affinities with feminist goals of dismantling patriarchal structures. In addition, new work is identifying mediating strategies for helping children to resist the stereotyping all too prevalent in the mass media (Durham, 1999;Nathanson, Wilson, McGee, & Sebastian, 2002), while other essays have identified transformational strategies within mass media (Natharius & Dobkin, 2002).…”

Section: Analysis Of Communication Practices That Function To Combat mentioning

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The State of the Art in Feminist Scholarship in Communication

Dow

2005

Journal of Communication

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The emergence of feminist scholarship in the field of communication follows, in many respects, a semilar historical trajectory to that of feminist visibility in the culture at large. When the second wave of feminism emerged in public consciousness around 1970, communication scholars began to attend more closely to the role of gender in communication practices. That attention was inflected by the concerns of the women's movement-exposing sexism and sex-role socialization, interrogating the role of power in relations between men and women, understanding how awareness of the influence of gender requires rethinking claims of universality based on male experience and behaviors.

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“…However, anecdotes tend to have an outsized impact as a source of information in policy debates because they are far more persuasive than numerical characterizations of an issue (Jewell and Bero ; Steiner ; Edelman ; Gring‐Pemble ; Sharf ). Anecdotal stories are easier to manipulate or fabricate, and advocates often choose anecdotes based on their inspirational value or uniqueness rather than their accuracy (Gring‐Pemble ). As one former legislator remarked, “one compelling anecdote (true or false) at a crucial moment in a floor debate can vaporize a mountain of data and careful policy analysis” (McDonough , 209).…”

Section: Validating Misinformation Through Anecdotes and Experiementioning

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“We Are the Visible Proof”: Legitimizing Abortion Regret Misinformation through Activists’ Experiential Knowledge

2017

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Since 2010, many abortion policies emerging at the state level have been designed around the idea of "abortion regret," a scientifically discredited assertion that abortion causes long-term health problems for women. Studies have examined the legal significance of regret claims in case law as well as the role scientific misinformation and uncertainty play in the policy process. However, scholars have given less attention to the intersection between abortion regret experiences and misinformation. We address this gap in the literature by examining how antiabortion activists' experiential knowledge continues to reinforce and legitimize misinformation contained in state policies. We explore the process of substantiating abortion regret misinformation by attaching it to activists' experiential expertise. Based on twenty-three interviews with antiabortion activists, we argue that misinformation receives validation through the certainty of experiential knowledge, which activists mobilize around and use as a source of evidence in the policy process.

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“'Are we going to now govern by anecdote?’: Rhetorical constructions of welfare recipients in congressional hearings, debates, and legislation, 1992–1996”

Cited by 29 publications

References 17 publications

Agency's Role in Dehumanization: Non‐human Metaphors of Out‐groups

Agency's Role in Dehumanization: Non‐human Metaphors of Out‐groups

The State of the Art in Feminist Scholarship in Communication

“We Are the Visible Proof”: Legitimizing Abortion Regret Misinformation through Activists’ Experiential Knowledge

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