Anomalous Credibility: Ralph Waldo Emerson and His Ohio Lyceum Audience

Authors

Richard McGrath, Central College

Abstract

This study adopts a functional approach to source credibility in order to illustrate the situation dependent quality of communicator acceptability and test the utility of Cronkhite and Liska'a GOALS/GRASP schema for assessing public address. The essay demonstrates that rhetorical critics may benefit from using this model as a method for explaining speaker credibility.

Journal Title

Iowa Journal of Communication

Volume

33

Issue

2

First Page

1

Last Page

11

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

McGrath, Richard (2001) "Anomalous Credibility: Ralph Waldo Emerson and His Ohio Lyceum Audience," Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 33: No. 2, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol33/iss2/3

Copyright

©2001 Iowa Communication Association