The spirit of the Patriot Act: A hermeneutic analysis of patriotism as argument during House Judiciary Committee debate .

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dc.contributor.advisorKramer, Eric,en_US
dc.contributor.authorDoty, Timothy Martin.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-16T12:20:50Z
dc.date.available2013-08-16T12:20:50Z
dc.date.issued2007en_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this project is to explore the symbolic meaning of ''patriot'' by bracketing the way in which it is negotiated during the policymaking process utilized to authorize, oversight, and reauthorize the Patriot Act. Narrowing the purpose a bit further, I should specify that what I am looking for is the way in which participants in the deliberative process describe their own credibility as patriots, the credibility of other participants in the debate, the credibility of people outside the debate who have a bearing on the way in which the war on terror is engaged, and the way in which this discussion about patriotism speaks to the credibility of the deliberative process itself. In other words, to use Aristotelian terms, I am viewing the debate over patriotism as primarily a matter of ethos---as distinguished from logos (e.g. legal extrapolation of the law) and pathos (e.g. appeals to fear, anger, or sadness). This is not to say that appeals to ethos, logos and pathos can necessarily be separate from each other. In fact, it is nearly impossible to discuss the presence of ethos without also considering logos and pathos, but from my vantage point, I hone descriptive efforts toward the way in which all the various appeals converge to frame the meaning of what it means to be credible as a ''patriot.''en_US
dc.format.extentxv, 496 leaves ;en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/1223
dc.noteAdviser: Eric Kramer.en_US
dc.noteSource: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-05, Section: A, page: 1918.en_US
dc.subjectUnited States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.en_US
dc.subjectLanguage, Rhetoric and Composition.en_US
dc.subjectPolitical oratory United States Case studies.en_US
dc.subjectPatriotism.en_US
dc.subjectUnited States. Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001.en_US
dc.subjectPolitical Science, General.en_US
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineDepartment of Communicationen_US
dc.titleThe spirit of the Patriot Act: A hermeneutic analysis of patriotism as argument during House Judiciary Committee debate .en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of Communication
ou.identifier(UMI)AAI3264591en_US

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