“Reasonable Hostility”: Its Usefulness and Limitation as a Norm for Public Hearings

“Reasonable hostility” is a norm of communicative conduct initially developed by studying public exchanges in education governance meetings in local U.S. communities. In this paper I consider the norm’s usefulness for and applicability to a U.S. state-level public hearing about a bill to legalize ci...

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Main Author: Karen Tracy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2011-09-01
Series:Informal Logic
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Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/3399