Herbert W. Simons
Emeritus Professor of Communication, Temple University
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction

Definition: What is Going Meta?

Going Meta as Responsive

Going Meta as Strategic

Going Meta as Reflexive

Going Meta as Frame-Altering

Political Applications: The "Art" of Going Meta

Going Meta as a Rhetorical Balancing Act

Some Tentative Guidelines for Going Meta in Political Confrontations

Concluding Comments

References
SELECTED WRITINGS
A Dilemma-Centered Analysis of Clinton's August 17th Apologia: Implications for Rhetorical Theory and Method

Judging A Policy Proposal By the Company It Keeps: The Gore-Perot NAFTA Debate

Rhetoric of Inquiry as an Intellectual Movement

Arguing About the Ethos of Past Actions: An Analysis of a Taped Conversation About a Taped Conversation

Burke, Marx, and Warrantable Outrage

Rhetorical Hermeneutics and the Project of Globalization

Media & Politics

The Rhetorical Construction of Institutional Fact: An Analysis of Social Problems Discourse

Temple Issues Forum: Innovations in Pedagogy

The Rhetoric of Philosophical Incommensurability

Rhetoric of the Classroom Teacher

Going Meta

The RPS Approach

Social Movements