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Description:Throughout the political spectrum, successful arguments often rely on fear appeals, whether implicit or explicit. Dominant arguments prey on people's fears - of economic failure, cultural backwardness, or lack of personal safety. Counterarguments feed on other fears, suggesting that audiences are being duped by emotional smokescreens. With chapters on the political, institutional, and cultural manifestations of fear, this book offers diverse investigations into how insecurity and the search for certainty shape contemporary political economic decisions, and explores how the rhetorical manipulation of such fears illuminates a larger struggle for social control.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Entertaining Fear: Rhetoric and the Political Economy of Social Control (Frontiers in Political Communication). To get started finding Entertaining Fear: Rhetoric and the Political Economy of Social Control (Frontiers in Political Communication), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Throughout the political spectrum, successful arguments often rely on fear appeals, whether implicit or explicit. Dominant arguments prey on people's fears - of economic failure, cultural backwardness, or lack of personal safety. Counterarguments feed on other fears, suggesting that audiences are being duped by emotional smokescreens. With chapters on the political, institutional, and cultural manifestations of fear, this book offers diverse investigations into how insecurity and the search for certainty shape contemporary political economic decisions, and explores how the rhetorical manipulation of such fears illuminates a larger struggle for social control.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Entertaining Fear: Rhetoric and the Political Economy of Social Control (Frontiers in Political Communication). To get started finding Entertaining Fear: Rhetoric and the Political Economy of Social Control (Frontiers in Political Communication), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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