On Viewing Press Releases of the Texas State AFL-CIO as Rhetorical Genre
Description:
Previous scholarship on labor rhetoric has concentrated on the impact of declining union membership and contemporary activist strategies on the part of unions. The press release is a common form of communication that organized labor employs in order to reach its publics. This study explores the press releases of the Texas State AFL-CIO to determine to what extent this level of labor discourse meets the criteria of a rhetorical genre. This study employs the methodology for generic criticism laid…
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Date:
May 1992
Creator:
Welborn, Ronny D.