William Benoit
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Lyon Benoit is an American scholar in the field of political communication. He graduated from Ball State University in 1975 and obtained his Master of Arts degree from Central Michigan University in 1976. He also holds a PhD from Wayne State University.
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- Accounts, excuses, and apologies : a theory of image restoration strategies (1994) (945)
- Image repair discourse and crisis communication (1997) (938)
- Issue Ownership and Presidential Campaigning, 1952–2000 (2003) (482)
- A meta-analysis of the effects of viewing U.S. presidential debates (2003) (253)
- AT&T: “Apologies are not enough” (1994) (217)
- Communication in Political Campaigns (2006) (186)
- Hugh Grant's image restoration discourse: An actor apologizes (1997) (167)
- A Critical Analysis Of USAir's Image Repair Discourse (1997) (160)
- Sears’ repair of its auto service image: Image restoration discourse in the corporate sector (1995) (157)
- Dow corning's image repair strategies in the breast implant crisis (1996) (146)
- Another visit to the theory of image restoration strategies (2000) (142)
- Appropriateness and effectiveness of image repair strategies (1997) (141)
- The Tonya Harding controversy: An analysis of image restoration strategies (1994) (140)
- Seeing spots : a functional analysis of presidential television advertisements, 1952-1996 (1999) (132)
- The Tarnished Star (1999) (126)
- Candidates in Conflict: Persuasive Attack and Defense in the 1992 Presidential Debates (1996) (114)
- Campaign '96: A Functional Analysis of Acclaiming, Attacking, and Defending (1998) (114)
- Functions of the great debates: Acclaims, attacks, and defenses in the 1960 presidential debates (1999) (113)
- Accounts, Excuses, and Apologies: Image Repair Theory and Research (2014) (113)
- Queen Elizabeth's image repair discourse: Insensitive royal or compassionate queen? (1999) (113)
- Blowout!: Firestone’s image restoration campaign (2002) (108)
- Image Restoration Discourse and Crisis Communication (2003) (107)
- Presidential Debate Watching, Issue Knowledge, Character Evaluation, and Vote Choice (2004) (101)
- The role of communication in the formation of an issue-based citizenry (2002) (100)
- New York Times Coverage of Presidential Campaigns (2005) (98)
- Crisis communication and image repair discourse (2008) (96)
- Beyond learning and persona: extending the scope of presidential debate effects (2001) (94)
- Message strategies of Saudi Arabia’s image restoration campaign after 9/11 (2004) (90)
- Argument Strategies: Antidote to Tylenol's Poisoned Image (1987) (82)
- Empirical Intersections in Communication Research: Replication, Multiple Quantitative Methods, and Bridging the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide (2008) (75)
- The Primary Decision: A Functional Analysis of Debates in Presidential Primaries (2001) (74)
- A Functional Analysis of the 1988 Bush-Dukakis Presidential Debates (2002) (73)
- President Bush's Image Repair Effort on Meet the Press: The Complexities of Defeasibility (2006) (72)
- Campaign 2000: A Functional Analysis of Presidential Campaign Discourse (2003) (71)
- Functional Theory and Political Discourse: Televised Debates in Israel and the United States (2006) (71)
- The functional approach to presidential television spots: Acclaiming, attacking, defending 1952–2000 (2001) (70)
- President Bush's image repair discourse on Hurricane Katrina (2009) (68)
- The Clinton Scandals and the Politics of Image Restoration (2001) (68)
- President Reagan's defensive discourse on the Iran‐Contra affair (1991) (67)
- A fantasy theme analysis of political cartoons on the Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr affair (2001) (63)
- Political Election Debates: Informing Voters about Policy and Character (2013) (58)
- Dateline NBC's persuasive attack on Wal‐Mart (1996) (58)
- Acclaiming, Attacking, and Defending: A Functional Analysis of U.S. Nominating Convention Keynote Speeches (2000) (57)
- Topic of presidential campaign discourse and election outcome (2003) (56)
- Testing the mediating role of cognitive responses in the elaboration likelihood model (2001) (56)
- Gary Condit’s image repair strategies: determined denial and differentiation (2004) (55)
- A Functional Approach to Televised Political Spots: Acclaiming, Attacking, Defending. (1997) (55)
- Acclaiming, attacking, and defending in presidential nominating acceptance addresses, 1960–1996 (1999) (54)
- Persuasive messages : the process of influence (2008) (53)
- USS Greeneville collides with Japan’s Ehime Maru: Cultural issues in image repair discourse (2004) (48)
- Effects of Watching Primary Debates in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Campaign. (2002) (46)
- Image repair in President Bush's April 2004 news conference (2006) (43)
- A functional analysis of political advertising across media, 1998 (2000) (42)
- Kenneth Starr's image repair discourse viewed in 20/20 (1999) (42)
- Former Minister Zhang's discourse on SARS: Government's image restoration or destruction?☆ (2009) (41)
- Consciousness: The mindlessness/mindfulness and verbal report controversies (1986) (39)
- Presidential debate questions and the public agenda (2001) (39)
- Political party affiliation and presidential campaign discourse (2004) (39)
- Blending politics and entertainment: Dan Quayle versus Murphy Brown (1996) (39)
- Content Analysis in Political Communication (2010) (39)
- Readings in Argumentation (1992) (39)
- A Theory of Political Campaign Media Connectedness (2009) (38)
- Richard M. Nixon's rhetorical strategies in his public statements on Watergate (1982) (37)
- The newt Gingrich book deal controversy: Self‐defense rhetoric (1997) (35)
- Issue Ownership in Primary and General Presidential Debates (2004) (35)
- Crisis and Image Repair at United Airlines: Fly the Unfriendly Skies (2018) (34)
- Framing through temporal metaphor: The “bridges” of Bob Dole and Bill Clinton in their 1996 acceptance addresses (2001) (34)
- A Functional Analysis of 2004 Taiwanese Political Debates (2007) (34)
- Effects of Presidential Debate Watching and Ideology on Attitudes and Knowledge. (1998) (34)
- A functional analysis of congressional television spots, 1986–2000 (2001) (33)
- Oliver stone's defense of JFK (1998) (33)
- Criteria for evaluating political campaign webpages (2005) (31)
- Beyond genre theory: The genesis of rhetorical action (2000) (30)
- The genesis of rhetorical action (1994) (30)
- President Barack Obama's image repair on HealthCare.gov (2014) (28)
- Inaccuracies in Media Coverage of the 1996 and 2000 Presidential Debates (2001) (28)
- A critical analysis of Judge Clarence Thomas' statement before the senate judiciary committee (1998) (28)
- A Functional Analysis of the 2006 Canadian and 2007 Australian Election Debates (2007) (27)
- A Functional Analysis of Televised U.S. Senate and Gubernatorial Campaign Debates (2007) (27)
- Staying “On Message”: Consistency in Content of Presidential Primary Campaign Messages Across Media (2011) (26)
- Political Television Advertising in Campaign 2000 (2005) (26)
- Image Restoration Theory (2008) (26)
- A Meta-Analysis of Political Advertising (2007) (26)
- A Functional Analysis of the 2002 Korean Presidential Debates (2005) (25)
- Attorney Argumentation and Supreme Court Opinions (1989) (24)
- Bush versus Kerry: A Functional Analysis of Campaign 2004 (2007) (24)
- Presidential campaigning on the web: The influence of candidate world wide web sites in the 2000 general election (2005) (24)
- Image Repair on the Donald Trump “Access Hollywood” Video: “Grab Them by the P*ssy” (2017) (24)
- Argumentation and credibility appeals in persuasion (1987) (23)
- A Functional Analysis of American Vice Presidential Debates (2005) (22)
- Presidential candidates’ television spots and personal qualities (2003) (22)
- Participants’ and observers’ memory for conversational behavior (1996) (21)
- A Functional Analysis of Presidential Direct Mail Advertising (2005) (21)
- Rhetorical theory as message reception: A cognitive response approach to rhetorical theory and criticism (2003) (21)
- Primary presidential election campaign messages in 2004: A functional analysis of candidates’ news releases (2005) (21)
- On the Spot: A Functional Analysis of Congressional Television Spots, 1980–2004 (2006) (20)
- Presidential Debate Stories Accentuate the Negative (2001) (20)
- Attacking the tobacco industry: A rhetorical Analysis of advertisements by the campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (1999) (19)
- Conversational memory employing cued and free recall (1988) (19)
- Own Party Issue Ownership Emphasis in Presidential Television Spots (2007) (19)
- Communication Forms as Predictors of Issue Knowledge in Presidential Campaigns: A Meta-Analytic Assessment (2007) (18)
- Image Repair Theory and Corporate Reputation (2013) (18)
- A note on Burke on “motive” (1996) (18)
- Issue Ownership for Non-Presidential Television Spots (2005) (18)
- 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Debates (2005) (18)
- Our hero Wang can't be wrong! A case study of collectivistic image repair in Taiwan (2009) (17)
- Election outcome and topic of political campaign attacks (2004) (17)
- “The case of the midnight judges” and multiple audience discourse: Chief Justice Marshall and Marbury V. Madison (1994) (17)
- The effects of traditional versus web-assisted instruction on learning and student satisfaction (2006) (17)
- Determinants of Defense in Presidential Debates (2007) (17)
- A functional analysis of presidential television spots: A comparison of Korean and American ads (2004) (16)
- A Functional Analysis of 2008 U.S. Presidential Primary Debates (2011) (16)
- Newspaper Coverage of Presidential Debates (2004) (16)
- 2004 Presidential campaign messages: A functional analysis of press releases from President Bush and Senator Kerry (2006) (15)
- Newspaper Coverage of Presidential Primary Debates (2004) (15)
- Factors influencing the accuracy of verbal reports of conversational behavior (1988) (15)
- Isocrates and Aristotle on Rhetoric (1990) (15)
- The changing media environment of presidential campaigns (2004) (15)
- The most significant passage in Aristotle's rhetoric (1982) (14)
- Issue Ownership in Congressional Campaign Television Spots (2008) (14)
- Two tests of the mechanism of inoculation theory (1991) (14)
- Aristotle's example: The rhetorical induction (1980) (14)
- Retrospective Versus Prospective Statements and Outcome of Presidential Elections (2006) (14)
- Presidential Campaigns and Democracy (2004) (14)
- On Aristotle's Example (2016) (14)
- Isocrates on Rhetorical Education. (1984) (13)
- Isocrates and Plato on rhetoric and rhetorical education (1991) (12)
- Debates Come to the United Kingdom: A Functional Analysis of the 2010 British Prime Minister Election Debates (2013) (12)
- The Role of Significant Policy Issues in the 2000 Presidential Primaries (2001) (12)
- Doonesbury versus the tobacco institute: The smoke starters' coupon (2001) (11)
- Limbaugh's Loose Lips: Rush Limbaugh's Image Repair after the Sandra Fluke Controversy (2013) (11)
- Argument and Credibility Appeals in Persuasion. (1987) (11)
- A Functional Analysis of 2012 U.S. Presidential Primary Debates (2013) (11)
- Memory for conversational behavior (1990) (11)
- Anticipated future interaction and conversational memory using participants and observers (1994) (10)
- Issue adaptation of presidential television spots and debates to primary and general audiences (2002) (10)
- A Functional Analysis of 2008 General Election Debates (2013) (10)
- A Functional Analysis of the 2007 and 2012 French Presidential Debates (2013) (10)
- A Categorical Content Analysis of Rhetorical Criticism Ballots. (1984) (9)
- A Functional Analysis of the 2008 Vice Presidential Debate: Biden Versus Palin (2009) (9)
- A Functional Analysis of 2012 Presidential Primary TV Spots (2014) (9)
- NPR's Image Repair Discourse on Firing Juan Williams (2011) (9)
- The functional Theory of political campaign discourse (2006) (9)
- A Functional Analysis of 2008 General Election Presidential TV Spots (2012) (8)
- "I am a Candidate for President": A Functional Analysis of Presidential Announcement Speeches, 1960-2004 (2008) (8)
- How Newspapers Cover Presidential Nomination Acceptance Addresses (2004) (8)
- Presidential television advertising and public policy priorities, 1952–2000 (2002) (8)
- On reluctant testimony (1999) (8)
- A Functional Analysis of UK Debates in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (2014) (7)
- Meta-Analysis of Research on the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse (2017) (7)
- The Functional Theory of Political Campaign Communication (2014) (7)
- A Functional Analysis of German Chancellor Debates (2007) (7)
- Image Repair Theory in the Context of Strategic Communication (2014) (7)
- Barack Obama’s 2008 speech on Reverend Wright: Defending self and others (2016) (7)
- Non-Presidential Political Advertising in Campaign 2004 (2008) (7)
- A Functional Analysis of the 2000 Taiwanese and US Presidential Spots (2004) (7)
- Issue ownership in the 2016 presidential debates (2018) (6)
- Image Repair Theory (2015) (6)
- Determinants of Issue Emphasis in Gubernatorial and Senate Debates (2011) (5)
- A functional analysis of press releases from Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain during the 2008 primary presidential election (2010) (5)
- A Functional Analysis of Visual and Verbal Symbols in Presidential Campaign Posters, 1828-2012 (2019) (5)
- Production of image repair strategies in the 2016 American presidential debates (2018) (5)
- The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication (2020) (5)
- Image Repair Theory and Sport (2018) (5)
- Functional Federalism in Political Campaign Debates (2009) (5)
- The failure of ‘scientific’ evidence in Taiwan: a case study of international image repair for American beef (2012) (5)
- The Abuse of Attacks: A Functional Analysis of the 2008 Spanish Presidential Debates (2009) (5)
- A Functional Analysis of the 2011 English Language Canadian Prime Minister Debate (2013) (5)
- Aggravated and mitigated opening utterances (1990) (5)
- A Functional Analysis of 2008 and 2012 Presidential Nomination Acceptance Addresses (2014) (4)
- Campbell's the philosophy of rhetoric and the advancement of rhetorical theory: The integration of philosophical antecedents (1990) (4)
- Chapter 9. Characteristics of Arguing from a Social Actor’s Perspective (1992) (4)
- Systems of explanation: Aristotle and burke on ‘cause’ (1983) (4)
- Newspaper Coverage of U.S. Senate Debates (2007) (4)
- Bully or Dupe?: Governor Chris Christie’s Image Repair on the Bridge Lane Closure Scandal (2015) (4)
- A functional analysis of the 2010 Australian Prime Minister debate (2014) (4)
- The Third Agenda in U.S. Presidential Debates: Debate Watch and Viewer Reactions, 1996-2004by Diana B. Carlin, Kelly M. McDonald, Tammy Vigil, and Susan Buehler (2010) (4)
- Decision 2012: Presidential Election Analysis from the CM Café (2013) (4)
- The Emergence of Discursive Conventions in Presidential Advertising (2003) (4)
- In depense op generic rhetorical criticism: John H. Patton's ‘generic criticism: Typology at an inflated price’ (1980) (4)
- A Functional Analysis of French and South Korean Political Leaders (2016) (4)
- Political Election Debates (2016) (4)
- Graduate Courses in Argumentation Theory. (1986) (3)
- A Functional Analysis of 2016 Direct Mail Advertising in Ohio (2017) (3)
- Argument about Argument. (1981) (3)
- Times ’ Coverage of American Presidential Primary Campaigns , 1952-2004 (2011) (3)
- State of the economy and presidential television spots (2003) (2)
- Because I Said So: A Functional Theory Analysis of Evidence in Political TV Spots (2010) (2)
- Televised Political Advertisements (2013) (2)
- The World’s All Atwitter (2017) (2)
- A Functional Analysis of the 2012 London Mayor Debate (2016) (2)
- Newspaper Coverage of the 2008 General Election Presidential Campaigns (2013) (2)
- Argumentation in Miranda v. Arizona (1991) (2)
- American political campaigns (2009) (2)
- A brief bibliography of sources on Iaocrates in English (1981) (2)
- Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Traditional Versus Web-Assisted Instruction on Learning and Student Satisfaction (2006) (2)
- Decision Rules for the Policy Metaphor. (1986) (2)
- A Functional Analysis of 2013 Australian Member of Parliament and Prime Minister Debates (2015) (2)
- The handbook of election news coverage around the world - Edited by Jesper Strömbäck & Linda Lee Kaid (2009) (2)
- A Functional Analysis of 2012 United States General Election Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates (2016) (1)
- Effects of General Presidential Campaigns on Voters , 1980-2000 (2007) (1)
- Image Repair (2018) (1)
- Functional Federalism and Issue Emphasis in Political Television Spots (2011) (1)
- A Functional Analysis of 2008 and 2012 Presidential Candidacy Announcement Speeches (2013) (1)
- Functions and Topics of 2012 American Presidential Advertising: AnIncrease in Attacks? (2016) (1)
- Character Assassination and Persuasive Attack on CBS’s Face the Nation (2019) (1)
- A Functional Analysis of 2016 Nonpresidential Campaign Tweets (2021) (1)
- Introduction to the Special Issue: The State of the Art in Communication Theory and Research, Part 1 (2004) (1)
- A Functional Analysis of Non-Presidential Primary Debates (2006) (1)
- Because I Said So: A Functional Theory Analysis of the 2002 Midterm Elections and Uses of Supporting Evidence (2008) (1)
- A guide to line numbers in the Aristotelian corpus (1981) (0)
- Introduction: Argument and Values (1992) (0)
- Introduction: Form in Argument (1992) (0)
- Introduction (2009) (0)
- Kenneth L. Hacker, ed. Presidential Candidate Images. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 2004. 256 pp. $88.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). (2016) (0)
- Presidential Campaigns in the Age of Social Media (2019) (0)
- The Small-College Communication Program: An Assessment of Communication Program Organization and Curricula at Private Liberal Arts Colleges in the Midwest and South (2006) (0)
- Candidate Television Advertising in the 2004 American Presidential Campaign (2005) (0)
- Let's Put "Debate" into "Presidential Debates" (2012) (0)
- Bibliographies of several approaches to rhetorical criticism (1985) (0)
- 24 Argument Fields and Forms of Argument in Natural Language (1987) (0)
- Introduction: Naive Social Actors’ Perspectives on Argument (1992) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2009) (0)
- Introduction: Scholarly Perspectives on Argument (1992) (0)
- Introduction: Evaluating Argument (1992) (0)
- Chapter 3. Traditional Conceptions of Argument (1992) (0)
- Comments on Argumentative patterns in plenary debates in the European Parliament by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen (2016) (0)
- Human Communication (2008) (0)
- Introduction: Argument in Everyday Contexts (1992) (0)
- Political TV Advertising and Debates (2012) (0)
- A Functional Analysis of the 2007 South Korean Presidential Campaign Blogs (2009) (0)
- Persuasion: Attitude/Behavior Change. A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. (1985) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- Introduction: the Study of Argumentation (1992) (0)
- Argumentation Theory. [A Selected Annotated Bibliography]. (1985) (0)
- Presidential Television Advertisements: Testing Functional Theory in Mexico and the United States (2021) (0)
- Innovation in Individual Events: Improving the Quality of Judging. (1977) (0)
- Chapter 27. The Role of Argumentation in Source Credibility (1992) (0)
- Introduction: Argument Fields (1992) (0)
- Chapter 26. Argument Evaluation (1987) (0)
- Persuasive attack on President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin (2022) (0)
- Introduction: Pragmatics of Argument (1992) (0)
- Chapter 32. Argumentation Studies’ Five Estates (1992) (0)
- Within Reason: A Guide to Non-Deductive Reasoning. By John Burbidge (1993) (0)
- Introduction: Kinds of Argument (1992) (0)
- A Functional Analysis of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (2009) (0)
- News Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Primaries (2015) (0)
- List of Contributors and Sources (1992) (0)
- The 1996 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective (review) (2010) (0)
- Image Repair in Crisis Communication (2021) (0)
- Introduction: Individual and Social Viewpoints on Argument (1992) (0)
- The Theory of Rhetorical Criticism: A Bibliography. (1982) (0)
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