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The first book-length rhetorical history and analysis of the insanity defense The insanity defense is considered one of the most controversial, most misunderstood, and least straightforward subjects……続きを見る

The relationship between the presidency and the press has transformedーseemingly overnightーfrom one where reports and columns were filed, edited, and deliberated for hours before publication into a……続きを見る

Across disciplines, scholars have employed theories of precarity to help explain the pervasiveness of problems related to labor, migration, biopolitics, global and state governance, economies of war……続きを見る

For decades, journalists have called the winners of U.S. presidential electionsーoften in errorーwell before the closing of the polls. In Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t, Sharon E. Jarvis and ……続きを見る

Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End “convey[s] the power of wit to refresh the mind” (Henry Hitchings, Wall Street Journal). In “this inventive and playful book” (Tom Beer, Ne……続きを見る

A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, and fieldwork A variety of research areas within rhetorical studiesーincluding everyday and public rhetorics, space ……続きを見る

How do we understand the lives of nonhuman animals and our relationship with and responsibilities to them? What are the artifacts or things that help configure such perceived responsibility? And wha……続きを見る

Reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that sustained ancient textual cultures Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted t……続きを見る

In response to the pervasiveness of emerging communication technologies, Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice argues that information be understood as an embodied, material practice. The guiding proposi……続きを見る

This book extends current research and scholarship around mentoring and learning theory, illustrating how mentoring creates, enacts, and sustains multidisciplinary learning in a variety of school, w……続きを見る

Rhetoric and the Responsibility to and for Language: Speaking of Evil relocates the “problem of evil”ー the question of why God would allow for the existence of evilーand surveys it as a rhetorical ……続きを見る

What is it about the rhetoric of one the most influential and powerful religious leaders in the world and in historyーPope Francisーthat is so engaging and yet so challenging to the Church writ larg……続きを見る

Rhetoric and feminism have yet to coalesce into a singular recognizable field. In this book, author Cheryl Glenn advances the feminist rhetorical project by introducing a new theory of rhetorical fe……続きを見る

Critics shudder at mixed metaphors like 'that wet blanket is a loose cannon', but admire 'Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player', and all the metaphors packed into Macbeth's 'Tomorrow, and tomo……続きを見る

The mountains, valleys, forests, and sands of 1940s New Mexico served as a picturesque backdrop to the dawn of the Atomic Age, the land’s natural beauty coexisting with secretive, nuclear developmen……続きを見る

This book honors the advocacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, acclaimed environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dr. Maathai was a gifted orator who crafted message……続きを見る

Moving beyond ecocomposition, this book galvanizes conversations in ecology and writing not with an eye toward homogenization, but with an agenda of firmly establishing the significance of writing r……続きを見る

Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato’s Socrates and……続きを見る

President Donald Trump and His Political Discourse brings together a diverse collection of perspectives on President Trump’s Twitter rhetoric. Truly unique in its in-depth exploration, the volume de……続きを見る

In How to Belong, Belinda Stillion Southard examines how women leaders throughout the world have asserted their rhetorical agency in troubling economic, social, and political conditions. Rather than……続きを見る

Homeless assistance has frequently adhered to the “three hots and a cot” model, which prioritizes immediate material needs but may fail to address the political and social exclusion of people experi……続きを見る

A guide to and analysis of a seminal books key concepts and methodology Since its publication in 1935, Kenneth Burke's Permanence and Change, a text that can serve as an introduction to all his theo……続きを見る

This book explores and analyzes the ways fat acceptance activists have advocated through language and tactical action. Using Anthony Giddens’ concept of Structuration in the make-up of ideology, the……続きを見る

Questa "Introduzione alle figure retoriche nella lingua italiana" è un agevole manuale introduttivo al mondo delle figure retoriche, pensato per la lingua italiana ma senza dimenticare le radici cla……続きを見る

Der Begriff "gender" ist in den letzten Jahren zum Reizwort mutiert, das in privaten und öffentlichen Diskussionen regelmäßig Menschen in Rage versetzt. Doch zwischen "gendergap" und "generischem Ma……続きを見る

Im Berufsleben kommt es heute mehr denn je auf Ihre Persönlichkeit an. Ihr Wissen und Ihre Fachkompetenz allein nützen Ihnen wenig, wenn es Ihnen nicht gelingt, sympathisch und überzeugend aufzutret……続きを見る

In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range of texts on……続きを見る

This important new text invites readers to step back from their busy professional lives and look at technical communication philosophically, to ask fundamental questions such as what does it mean to……続きを見る

In the early 1990s, false reports of Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait allowing premature infants to die by removing them from their incubators helped to justify the Persian Gulf War, just as spurious report……続きを見る

Ob in der Familie, unter Freunden, bei der Begegnung mit fremden Menschen oder in den unterschiedlichsten alltäglichen Situationen im Job – wenn wir anderen Menschen begegnen und mit ihnen kommunizi……続きを見る