Cynthia Roper
Contributor
Website : SAGE Publications
Cynthia Roper is a professor in the department of Communications at Abilene Christian University. She contributed an article on āPolitical Correctness (PC)ā to SAGE Publicationsā Encyclopedia of Political Communication (2008), and a version of this article was used for her Britannica entry on this topic.
Primary Contributions (1)
Political correctness (PC), term used to refer to language that seems intended to give the least amount of offense, especially when describing groups identified by external markers such as race, gender, culture, or sexual orientation. The concept has been discussed, disputed, criticized, andā¦
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Publications (1)
Encyclopedia of Political Communication (2008)
"Political communication began with the earliest studies of democratic discourse by Aristotle and Plato. However, modern political communication relies on an interdisciplinary base, which draws on concepts from communication, political science, journalism, sociology, psychology, history, rhetoric, and others. This two-volume resource considers political communication from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the many different roles that communication plays in political processes in...
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