Overview

Gring-Pemble asserts that the role of language in shaping policy options is rarely studied and poorly understood. She seeks to analyze congressional hearings and debates on welfare to understand the role of language in framing welfare policy and contemporary welfare discussions. She reviews welfare history in the United States and provides a rhetorical analysis of welfare deliberations. In the process she illustrates the significance of language and ideology in shaping American social policy outcomes.

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Author:   Lisa M. Gring-Pemble
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9780275978709

ISBN 10:   0275978702
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 December 2003
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"The Changing Faces of American Welfare Policy: Historical Roots of Contemporary Welfare Legislation Welfare Legislation Is Symbolic: An Introduction American Social Welfare Policy in Context, 1600-1935 American Social Welfare Policy in Context, 1940-2002 Rhetorical Constructions of Welfare Recipients and Welfare Families in United States Congressional Hearing and Debates ""Are We Going to Now Govern by Anecdote?"": Rhetorical Constructions of Welfare Recipients in the Congressional Hearings, Debates, and Legislation, 1992-2002 Legislating a ""Normal Classic Family"": The Rhetorical Construction of Families in American Welfare Policy The Rhetorical Force of Depiction in American Welfare Policy In Search of an Exigence to Warrant Reform: Public Opinion, Policy Research, and Anecdotal Evidence American Welfare Policy and the Ineluctable Appeal of Language: Conclusion and Implications"

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?Very much as Christopher Martin does in Framed! Labor and the Corporate Media (CH, Jun'04), Gring-Pemble demonstrates that the way an issue is presented strongly influences the way it is handled. The present volume goes beyond Framed! in that the author applies sophisticated rhetorical theory to her subject. The fairy tales of the title are the anecdotal evidence used by politicians to justify welfare policy decisions....Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers.?-Choice

?Very much as Christopher Martin does in Framed! Labor and the Corporate Media (CH, Jun'04), Gring-Pemble demonstrates that the way an issue is presented strongly influences the way it is handled. The present volume goes beyond Framed! in that the author applies sophisticated rhetorical theory to her subject. The fairy tales of the title are the anecdotal evidence used by politicians to justify welfare policy decisions....Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers.?-Choice Very much as Christopher Martin does in Framed! Labor and the Corporate Media (CH, Jun'04), Gring-Pemble demonstrates that the way an issue is presented strongly influences the way it is handled. The present volume goes beyond Framed! in that the author applies sophisticated rhetorical theory to her subject. The fairy tales of the title are the anecdotal evidence used by politicians to justify welfare policy decisions....Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers. -Choice

Author Information

LISA M. GRING-PEMBLE is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at George Mason University.

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