When Congress Debates: A Bakhtinian Paradigm

by Theodore F. Sheckels

Sheckels provides the first book-length study of Congressional debating. The limited work on the topic in the communication discipline has argued that such debating is tedious and inconsequential. Sheckels, however, offers a new paradigm, derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, that counteracts this assumption. This paradigm also counters the often unvoiced assumption that debates are inherently biopolar with the initial premise that they are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275966674
• ISBN13: 9780275966676
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"