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Refining McGee's Ideograph: Celebrating 45 Years of Ideographic Criticism.

  • Published In: Western Journal of Communication, 2025, v. 89, n. 2. P. 278 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Fox, Ragan 3 of 3

Abstract

This essay reviews various refinements of ideographic criticism. McGee first imagined ideographs as ultimate terms found in political discourse that serve as ideology's most basic units. Over the last forty-five years, rhetoricians have casuistically stretched ideographic criticism to better fit into postmodernism's grammars of cultural and textual fragmentation. In this article, I reflect on McGee's initial deductive framework, harmonize 1980 and 1998 McGee's divergent philosophies of ideology, and reference creative applications of ideographic criticism to support the method's four primary generative extensions, which include contemporary, personified, visual, and localized ideographs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Western Journal of Communication. 2025/03, Vol. 89, Issue 2, p278
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:1057-0314
  • DOI:10.1080/10570314.2024.2411515
  • Accession Number:183597077
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