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Four score and seven years ago . . . . Are any six words better known, of greater import, or from a more crucial moment in our nation's history? And yet after 150 years the dramatic and surprising s……続きを見る

Rhetoric has shaped our understanding of the nature of language and the purpose of literature for over two millennia. It is of crucial importance in understanding the development of literary history……続きを見る

Traditions of Writing Research reflects the different styles of work offered at the Writing Research Across Borders conference. Organized by Charles Bazerman, one of the pre-eminent scholars in writ……続きを見る

Learning to think is a complex process made up of reading, writing listening, speaking and remembering textual materials. The aim of this topical book is to encourage practical educational reform in……続きを見る

George Orwell coined the term ‘Newspeak’ for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance. For this dictionary, first published to heral……続きを見る

Gertrude Stein is recognized as an iconic and canonical literary modernist. In Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric, Sharon J. Kirsch broadens our understanding of Stein’s influence to inc……続きを見る

An incisive critique of the corporatized university, tracing the entanglement of academic missions with economic, political, and cultural systems. Advocates of higher education have long contended t……続きを見る

The rhetorical power of camp in American popular culture Making Camp examines the rhetoric and conventions of “camp” in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by ……続きを見る

A bold reconsideration of classical rhetorical pedagogy Genuine Teachers of This Art examines the technê, or "handbook," traditionーwhich it controversially suggests began with Isocratesーas the cen……続きを見る

A commanding study of the motivational speech of military leaders across the centuries In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith……続きを見る

Comprised of a study spanning over five years, this text looks at four engineering co-op students as they write at work. Since the contributors have a foot in both worlds -- work and school -- the b……続きを見る

In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the ……続きを見る

President Ronald Reagan’s famous address to the Houses of Parliament is now consideredーin its spirit if not in its actual wordsーto be the initial enunciation of his “Evil Empire” stance. In this i……続きを見る

In his televised and widely watched speech to the nation on November 3, 1969, Pres. Richard M. Nixon introduced a phraseー“silent majority”ーand a policyーVietnamization of the war effortーthat echo……続きを見る

Blending memoir, cultural history, and a literary perspective, Facing It bears witness to controversies like Tellico and Chernobyl, global warming and local drought. But rather than merely drowning ……続きを見る

The papers published in this volume were originally read and discussed at a three day seminar sponsored by the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion/Societie Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses……続きを見る

Discursive essays that illuminate the interplay between technological innovation and communication Recognizing an increasingly technological context for rhetorical activity, the thirteen contributor……続きを見る

Compelling case studies and criticism of rhetorical practices aimed at social change The Public Work of Rhetoric presents the art of rhetorical techné as a contemporary praxis for civic engagement a……続きを見る

The design arts -- from the design of buildings and machines to software and interfaces -- are associated with types of knowledge and performance thought to be structured, modular, and systematic. S……続きを見る

The 1996 Meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America commemorated the 25th anniversary of the publication of Lloyd Bitzer and Edwin Black's The Prospect of Rhetoric. In so doing, the conference gave ……続きを見る

Though the term Ciceronianism could be applied to Cicero's influence and teaching in the field of politics, philosophy, or rhetoric, it is limited in the present study to the technical department of……続きを見る

Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis, linguistics……続きを見る

Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award Winner Occupying Our Space sheds new light on the contributions of Mexican women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth c……続きを見る

A critical exploration of the ways public participation has transformed commemoration and civic engagement in the United States In the last three decades ordinary Americans launched numerous grassro……続きを見る

Given its highly comparative natuare, its comprehensive examination of curricular practices that can be adapted in other institutions and its practical suggestions for dismantling writing myths and ……続きを見る

An unprecedented text explains how to analyze the role of rhetoric in organizations Integrating rhetorical theories and methods with principles of organizational communication, this pioneering text ……続きを見る

The only book to examine terrorism as a rhetorical act "This is an excellent text in furthering our understanding of the web of language and how it creates our mediated realities – which reflect our……続きを見る

The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studiessurveys the latest advances in rhetorical scholarship, synthesizing theories and practices across major areas of study in the field and pointing the way for fu……続きを見る

Drawing on a decade of their own research from the 2000 to 2012 U.S. presidential elections, Renita Coleman and Denis Wu explore the image presentation of political candidates and its influence at b……続きを見る

An excellent and lucid introduction to the study of political rhetoric The decade of the 1960s was a time of passionate politics and resounding rhetoric. The “resounding rhetoric,” from Kennedy’s ce……続きを見る