TY - JOUR
T1 - Cocoon Minorities
T2 - Understanding Rush Limbaugh's Co-option of the Rhetorical Strategies of the Disenfranchised Position Through Homological Analysis
AU - Butler, Sim
AU - Mocarski, Richard
AU - Emmons, Betsy
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - Conceptualizing minority social and political groups calls for careful consideration of power, prestige, and numerical systems. However, when members of empowered groups self-identify as disenfranchised, they create unique rhetorical situations. Through homological analysis of the rhetorical tactics of Rush Limbaugh matched with an analysis of Sandra Fluke's rhetorical strategies, we assert that subtle co-option of communication tactics poses larger questions about self-identification of individuals as minority members within social and political systems.
AB - Conceptualizing minority social and political groups calls for careful consideration of power, prestige, and numerical systems. However, when members of empowered groups self-identify as disenfranchised, they create unique rhetorical situations. Through homological analysis of the rhetorical tactics of Rush Limbaugh matched with an analysis of Sandra Fluke's rhetorical strategies, we assert that subtle co-option of communication tactics poses larger questions about self-identification of individuals as minority members within social and political systems.
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U2 - 10.1080/19376529.2012.722477
DO - 10.1080/19376529.2012.722477
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84869811764
SN - 1937-6529
VL - 19
SP - 239
EP - 256
JO - Journal of Radio and Audio Media
JF - Journal of Radio and Audio Media
IS - 2
ER -