Rhetoric category: 666 books
Making Camp
Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Making Camp examines the rhetoric and conventions of “camp” in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality.
Camp has long been aligned with gay male...
Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory
A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
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 and forensic science, philosophy and psychology, political science and education, sociology and law,...
Deliberative Acts
Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and human rights claims; the arising conflicts require innovative understandings of decision making. Deliberative Acts develops a new, cogent theory of performative deliberation. Rather...
Rhetorics of Whiteness
Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award in the Edited Collection Category, 2018
With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming that we now live in a postracial era. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a...
Coming to Terms
The Collected Works of Jane Blankenship
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Coming to Terms: The Collected Works of Jane Blankenship, an edited collection from Jane Blankenship and Janette Kenner Muir, is the story of one academic journey through self-discovery, intellectual development, and mentorship. It is a conversation that illustrates how, in Mary Catherine Bateson’s...
Political Communication in the Anglophone World
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Political Communication in the Anglophone World: Case Studies, by Theodore F. Sheckels, extends political communication scholarship—primarily rhetorical scholarship—into the extensive English language arena outside the United States and the United Kingdom. While wrestling with the extent to which...
Battle Exhortation
The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith Yellin offers an interdisciplinary look into the rhetorical discourse that has played a prominent role in warfare, history, and popular culture from antiquity to the present day. Battle...
Occupying Our Space
The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
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 centuries, marked as the zenith of Mexican journalism. Journalists played a significant role in...
You Can't Padlock an Idea
Rhetorical Education at the Highlander Folk School, 1932-1961
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
You Can’t Padlock an Idea examines the educational programs undertaken at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and looks specifically at how these programs functioned rhetorically to promote democratic social change. Founded in 1932 by educator Myles Horton, the Highlander Folk School sought...
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Nonverbal Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Michael's first collection of poetry brings together pieces that were originally published as if they were separate poems, revealing for the first time the exact order of reading and narrative structure of the larger work she has been working on. If you have seen her work in The Spoon Knife Anthology, Barking...
Rhetorical Public Speaking
Civic Engagement in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Rhetorical Public Speaking: Civic Engagement in the Digital Age, Third Edition offers students an innovative approach to public speaking by employing the rhetorical canon as a means of constructing artful speech in a multi-mediated environment. It provides a foundation to guide students in understanding,...
by Shawn J. Parry-Giles, David S. Kaufer
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Republicans and Democrats who advocated conflicting visions of American citizenship could agree on one thing: the rhetorical power of Abraham Lincoln’s life. This volume examines the debates over his legacy and their impact on America’s future.
In the...
Suburban Dreams
Imagining and Building the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award finalist
Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighborhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches are compelling forms (topos) that shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Social Justice and Communication Scholarship explores the role of communication in framing and contributing to issues of social justice. This collection, a first on the subject of communication and social justice, investigates the theoretical and practical ways in which communication scholarship can...