The American Dream as Communication Process by Prof. Susan Opt

WHEN: Monday, November 23, 2009; 10:15 a.m.
WHERE: UK Jinonice, room 2080

The department of Media and Communication of Faculty of Humanities and the Department of American Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences

are pleased to invite you to the lecture on The American Dream as Communication Process by prof. Susan Opt, Fulbright scholar.

The presentation applies William R. Brown’s Rhetoric of Social Intervention model to understand how U.S. Americans create and maintain American dream ideology, despite its apparent inconsistencies and contradictions.

The lecture will cover:
• What is the American Dream?
• How do U.S. Americans symbolically constituted the dream in discourse?
• How to U.S. Americans deal with the inconsistencies in the dream?
• What is the future for the dream?