Abstract
With the ending of the historic practice of town meeting legislature in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2018, this essay studies one practice that had been a source of tension: the deliberative body's foreign policy rhetoric. This essay examines one deliberation on a resolution concerning Nigeria for how participants use presence (Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca, 1971) and ventriloquism (Cooren, 2016) to construct a sense of authority for speaking for themselves and for others as democratic agents. It contributes to literature on public meetings and on rhetorical authority.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
51
Issue
2
First Page
177
Last Page
205
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Townsend, Rebecca
(2019)
"Speaking for Another Polis,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 51:
No.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol51/iss2/3
Copyright
©2019 Iowa Communication Association
