Abstract
While we so commonly frame our public/civic wounds as past (or passed), we are used to talking about healing and mending existing wounds. This language also affects how we conduct deliberative discourse around current crises. However, I am more curious about the wound’s future. Specifically, I want to explore the wound’s future as it emerges in two different types of deliberation: prescriptive deliberation and descriptive deliberation. Rather than seeing the wound (only) as something that has already happened, or even as something that lingers on into the present, I want to address the wound’s future: a tactical future-oriented rhetoric that creates a broader deliberative practice.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 7-15 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Communication and the Public |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2020.
Keywords
- Deliberation
- description
- public discourse
- rhetoric
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication