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Aryal, Bhushan.

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Constitutional Rhetoric: The Genre Performances of the Written Constitution in Transnational, Transcultural Contexts.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Constitutional Rhetoric: The Genre Performances of the Written Constitution in Transnational, Transcultural Contexts./
作者:	Aryal, Bhushan.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
面頁冊數:	214 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-03A.
標題:	Political science. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10844923
ISBN:	9780438321885

Constitutional Rhetoric: The Genre Performances of the Written Constitution in Transnational, Transcultural Contexts.
Aryal, Bhushan.

Constitutional Rhetoric: The Genre Performances of the Written Constitution in Transnational, Transcultural Contexts. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 214 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--West Virginia University, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

A new kind of project within the broad field of writing studies, this dissertation studies the written constitution as a genre from the lens of rhetorical genre studies, for which it uses the constitutions of the United States, Cherokee Nation, and Nepal as sample cases because of their historical and cultural differences. Analyzing why and how the genre originated in the United States in the eighteenth-century, and how it was used in the two other contexts subsequently, the study demonstrates the double dynamics in the use of the genre: while the genre modifies genre-receiving contexts by its ideological/functional structures, the adopters also appropriate it to achieve their needs. That the degree-not the kind-of that double dynamics differs from one rhetorical context to another, and that knowing that degree of a particular genre use requires a careful observation of the associated players, historical context, and texts is the central demonstration of this dissertation. For instance, the Cherokee Nation in 1827 adopted the U.S.-modelled constitution to resist their removal, but, in the process, they redefined the tribe's nature of government and sovereignty. In the context of the United States in 1780s, the genre served as the defining conduit for the republicanism's transition from I call "subjective republicanism" to a pragmatic form of governance. The analysis of the actors' motivations involved in the seven constitutions of Nepal demonstrates that the hegemonic global ascendency of the written constitution in the twentieth-century required even traditional rulers to adopt the genre so that they can legitimize their rule within the country and receive recognition from international community, although they did not have the interest to observe the idealistic view of constitutionalism embedded in the genre's 'original' disposition. Nepal's constitutional history also suggests that the question of what counts as the legitimate author of a constitution could be a conflicting factor between the forces of tradition and modernity in a culture with a different form of legitimization for its legal codes. Cumulatively, this comparative study of the transnational, transcultural, and tranlingual application of the written constitution in a broad historical context spanning two centuries shows two major tendencies: One the one hand, the genre mobilizes an idealistic democratic aspiration for the rule of law designed by collective human sovereignty. On the other hand, the genre gets utilized for arbitrary rules because of its power of legitimization. But the genre falls under higher strain when the deeper contention arises because the idealistic applications themselves cannot decide on the definitions of the master tropes of modernity such as equity, democracy, and constitutional authorship. This study's significance lies at two levels. First, while scholars, including rhetoric and composition specialists, have researched and commented on the U.S. Constitution and other constitutions, this dissertation is the first substantial study of the written constitution from rhetorical genre perspective. Thus, the project offers rhetoric and writing scholars with the new cases not only demonstrating the power of genre studies to define larger national narratives, but also illustrating complexities of high-stake, large-scale, public collaborative writing projects. At the second level, the project also is in dialogue with the existing scholarship in the contexts of the cases and makes specific contributions there.

ISBN: 9780438321885Subjects--Topical Terms:

528916
Political science.

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