3Makers vs. Takers: Polarizing Rhetoric in the Tea Party Oratorical Network
3.1A Note on Methodology
The purpose of case studies is to illustrate the practical applicability of theoretical constructs. In other words, case studies apply models to the real-world in order to show how these models are useful in explaining and categorizing phenomena in the observable world. In this sense, Chapters 1 and 2 both established and discussed models to explain certain phenomena: while Chapter 1 focused on a model of central theoretical units of rhetorical analysis, Chapter 2 integrated these categories with contemporary empirical research on polarizing language to establish a rhetorical model that describes polarizing orators, strategies, and texts.
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