Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1. Humor and Polarization in White House Correspondents? Dinner Comedy Speeches, by Leah C. Windsor, Alistair Windsor, Christian Kronsted, Deborah Tollefsen, J. Elliott Casal, Nicholas W. Simon, Shaun Gallagher, James Russell Haner, and August White 2. A Uniting Issue? A Framing Analysis of TikTok Ban Discourse by Congressional Representatives and Journalists, by Diana Deyoe and Diana Zulli 3. Polarization of Party and Income: Rhetorical Constructions of the Middle Class During the 117th Congress, by Dakota Park-Ozee 4. Digital Communication in Congress, 2000?2023, by Annelise Russell 5.

Congressional Discussions of Abortion: Moral Framing in Context, by Diane Jackson and Jennifer Hoewe 6. Framing False Information: Examining Legislators? Discourse Surrounding January 6, by Christina P. Walker 7. Sex and Politics: Analyzing Political Figures? Response and Public Reaction to Sex Scandals, by Katelyn E. Brooks and Amanda E. Lilly 8. Spiritual Advisors to the U.S.

Presidency: Mapping the Rhetorical Terrain, by Andrea J. Terry 9. Speaking Off the Bench: Analyzing the Extrajudicial Appearances of Supreme Court Justices, by Matthew T. Cota 10. Emotions in Televised Debates: Proposing a Multimodal Deep Learning Approach for Emotion Detection, by Joyce (Yanru) Jiang Conclusion Contributors Index.