Rhetoric category: 666 books
The Politics of Pain Medicine
A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners. It often eludes both cause and cure and serves as a reminder of how much further we have to go in unlocking the secrets of the body. A new field of pain medicine has evolved from this landscape,...
Enough Said
What's Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
There’s a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson argues that...
Consuming Identity
The Role of Food in Redefining the South
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Southerners love to talk food, quickly revealing likes and dislikes, regional preferences, and their own delicious stories. Because the topic often crosses lines of race, class, gender, and region, food supplies a common fuel to launch discussion. Consuming Identity sifts through the self-definitions,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Although it is well known in other fields, the concept of “resilience” has not been addressed explicitly by feminist rhetoricians. This collection develops it in readings of rhetorical situations across a range of social contexts and national cultures. Contributors demonstrate that resilience...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Writing studies has been dominated throughout its history by grand narratives of the discipline, but in this volume Bruce McComiskey begins to explore microhistory as a way to understand, enrich, and complicate how the field relates to its past. Microhistory investigates the dialectical interaction...
Learning to Rival
A Literate Practice for Intercultural Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Learning to Rival tells the inside story of college and high school writers learning to "rival"--to actively seek rival hypotheses and negotiate alternative perspectives on charged questions. It shows how this interdisciplinary literate practice alters with the context of use and how, in learning...
Inventing Place
Writing Lone Star Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a...
Inside the Teaching Machine
Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments, ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy that...
by Dalia Gavriely-Nuri
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Normalization of War in Israeli Discourse, 1967-2008, by Dalia Gavriely-Nuri opens a window to how Israelis talk, write, and think about war. In the post-World War II period, Israel has taken part in eight wars, more than almost any other western democracy. In addition to “official” wars,...
Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication
Cognition/culture/power
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Although genre studies abound in literary criticism, researchers and scholars interested in the social contexts of literacy have recently become interested in the dynamic, rhetorical dimensions of speech genres. Within this burgeoning scholarly community, the authors are among the first researchers...
by Roderick P Hart, Suzanne M. Daughton, Rebecca Lavally
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the analysis of public rhetoric, Modern Rhetorical Criticism teaches readers how to examine and interpret rhetorical situations, ideas, arguments, structure, and style. The text covers a wide range of critical techniques, from cultural and dramatistic...
The Ides of War
George Washington and the Newburgh Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
History tells us that on a day when the forces of civil government confront the forces of military might, no one knows what may follow. Americans believe that they have avoided this moment, that whatever other challengesthe country has faced, at least it never has had to deal with the prospects of...
Rereading Appalachia
Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse. Its citizens, in turn, have often been the target of unkind characterizations depicting them...
Writing/Disciplinarity
A Sociohistoric Account of Literate Activity in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Over the past century, the explosive growth of scientific, technical, and cultural disciplines has profoundly affected our daily lives. However, processes of enculturation in sites such as graduate education that have helped to form these disciplines have received very limited research attention....