Positions

Research Areas research areas

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year Title
2018 Kenneth Burke's Agonistic Theory of Knowledge.  Western Journal of Communication.  82:181-193. 2018
2015 After the Genome: A Language for Our Biotechnological Future.  Quarterly Journal of Speech.  101:452-457. 2015
2012 The Perfect Response: Studies in the Rhetorical Personality..  Mass Communication and Society.  15:165-167. 2012
2011 Kenneth Burke on Recalcitrance.  RSQ-Rhetoric Society Quarterly.  41:97-124. 2011
2009 Rhetorical Features of Green Evangelicalism.  Environmental Communication: a journal of nature and culture.  3:224-243. 2009
2006 Merging content analysis and the policy sciences: A system to discern policy-specific trends from news media reports.  Policy Sciences: an international journal devoted to the improvement of policy making.  39:205-231. 2006
2001 Learning from the Limits of an Adjudicatory Strategy for Resolving United States?Canada Fisheries Conflicts: Lessons from the Gulf of Maine.  The Natural Resources Journal.  41. 2001
1996 Empirical diversity, interdependence, and the problem of rhetorical invention and judgment: The case of wife abuse facts.  Communication Theory.  6:406-429. 1996
1996 Special issue: The rhetoric of science.  Communication Theory.  6:331-334. 1996
1990 RHETORICAL LOGIC AND THE INTEGRATION OF RHETORIC AND SCIENCE.  Communication Monographs.  57:315-322. 1990
1981 RHETORIC AND EPISTEMOLOGY FROM AN ACTION THEORY PERSPECTIVE.  Communication Studies.  32:273-278. 1981

Book

Year Title
1989 A Rhetoric of Science Inventing Scientific Discourse 1989

Chapter

Year Title
2018 The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial as a Site of Virtuous Suffering 2018
2017 "Getting Down in the Weeds to Get a God's Eye View: The Synoptic Topology of Early American Ecology".  197-218. 2017
2015 Mapping the Rhetoric of Intelligent Design The Agentification of the Scene.  161-179. 2015
2006 Visualizing a Bounded Sea: A Case Study in Rhetorical Taxis.  90-120. 2006

Teaching Activities

  • Enviro Com and Rhetoric Taught course 2023
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2023
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2022
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2022
  • Enviro Com and Rhetoric Taught course 2022
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2022
  • Honors Thesis Taught course 2021
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2021
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2021
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2020
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2020
  • Enviro Com and Rhetoric Taught course 2020
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2020
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2019
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2019
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2019
  • Sem/Environ Comm & Rhetoric Taught course 2019
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2018
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2018
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2018
  • Sem/Environ Comm & Rhetoric Taught course 2018
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2017
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2017
  • Research Practicum Taught course 2017
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2017
  • Sem/Environ Comm & Rhetoric Taught course 2017
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2016
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2016
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2016
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2016
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2015
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2015
  • Honors Thesis Taught course 2015
  • Persuasion and Public Problems Taught course 2015
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2015
  • Propaganda and Persuasion Taught course 2014
  • Rhetorics of Display Taught course 2014

    • Education And Training

  • B.S. Political Sci.&Government Rel., State University of New York at Brockport
  • M.A. CommunicationSpeechComRhetoric, University at Albany
  • M.S. Natural Resources/Conservation, University of New Hampshire
  • Ph.D. Speech/Theater Education, Pennsylvania State University

    • Full Name

  • Lawrence Prelli