Fracking and the Construction of Proximity: The Public Rhetoric of Place in an Environmental Controversy

his dissertation investigates the rhetorical strategies of speakers at county-level public hearings on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) with specific focus on the role of the place-based appeal as an argumentative resource to deliberative rhetoric. This study begins with a March 10, 2011 hearing on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mando, Justin D.
Format: Others
Published: Research Showcase @ CMU 2016
Online Access:http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/846
http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1885&context=dissertations