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2004 · San Antonio

Three Provocations: Ignorance, Ridicule, and Laughter

Session J.9

Area: Theory · family: Theory and research methods

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair Marian Salwierak St. Gregory’s University, Shawnee, OK → St. Gregory's University
Presenters Marvin Diogenes Stanford University, CA → Stanford University Purposeful Laughter: Toward a Rhetoric of Comic Appeals
Presenters Kevin Porter University of Texas at Arlington → The University of Texas at Arlington Opening a Space from Which to Speak: The Argumentum ad Ignorantiam

Source

NCTE's program, near page 207 of the file. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conventions.

Cite as: Conference on College Composition and Communication. “Three Provocations: Ignorance, Ridicule, and Laughter.” 2004 Convention Program, San Antonio, session J.9. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 2, 2026.