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This study investigated the relationship between emotive words and five variables of academic debate: winning, speaker position, side of topic, year of debate, and gender mixture of the teams. Debate is an art that dates to the beginning of civilization. Research has to determined the keys to successful advocacy. Several scholars suggest that emotive words are vital to successful communication. No one has investigated emotive words in debate. Transcripts of nineteen years of intercollegiate debate from the National Debate Tournament were anlyzed by a computer aided content analysis. The empirical focus utilized emotive words as the depended variable. The data were analyzed by the use of six SAS regression procedures. The results of this study's five research questions, related to academic debate and the use of emotive language, are: 1. Do winning and losing debate teams differ in their use of emotive words during rebuttal speeches in a debate round? No support was found. 2. do affirmative and negative debaters differ in their use of emotive words in rebuttal speeches? No support was found. 3. Do the first and second rebuttal speakers for each debate team differ in their use of emot

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Author

Kish, Gerald R., 1957-

Publisher

1992.

Published

1992

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction