Rhetoric category: 666 books
Reality By Design
The Rhetoric and Technology of Authenticity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
In the first paragraphs of this volume, the author identifies an "authenticity paradox": that the purported real-worldedness of a learning environment, technique, or task is so rhetorically potent that educators frequently call attention to it in pedagogical conversations to legitimize their...
by Jamie Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2004
Uncover the truth under all the BS
In the daily battle for our hearts and minds--not to mention our hard-earned cash--the truth is usually the first casualty. It's time we learned how to see through the rhetoric, faulty reasoning, and misinformation that we're subjected to from morning to night...
The Etymological Argument - Fallacy or Sound Move
Fallacy or Sound Move
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2002 in the subject Rhetoric / Elocution / Oratory, grade: 8,5 von 10, M.A. with honours, University of Amsterdam (Int. School for Humanities & Social Sciences), course: Speech-Communication, Argumentation-Theory and Rhetorics, 44 entries in the bibliography, language:...
Introducing Science through Images
Cases of Visual Popularization
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
As funding for basic scientific research becomes increasingly difficult to secure, public support becomes essential. Because of its promise for captivating nonexpert publics, the practice of merging art and imagery with science has been gaining traction in the scientific community. While images have...
Popular Memories
Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
In the last three decades ordinary Americans launched numerous grassroots commemorations and official historical institutions became more open to popular participation. In this first book-length study of participatory memory practices, Ekaterina V. Haskins critically examines this trend by asking...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Citizenship has long been a central topic among educators, philosophers, and political theorists. Using the phrase “rhetorical citizenship” as a unifying perspective, Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation aims to develop an understanding of citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, arguing...
Claiming the Bicycle
Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Although the impact of the bicycle craze of the late nineteenth century on women’s lives has been well documented, rarely have writers considered the role of women’s rhetorical agency in the transformation of bicycle culture and the bicycle itself. In Claiming the Bicycle, Sarah Hallenbeck argues...
Academic Advancement in Composition Studies
Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This volume deals with a number of related issues that are becoming increasingly crucial for English studies during this time when most faculty in the field are assistant professors approaching tenure review or associate professors seeking promotion. These critical issues focus on:
* The diversity...
Unruly Rhetorics
Protest, Persuasion, and Publics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
What forces bring ordinary people together in public to make their voices heard? What means do they use to break through impediments to democratic participation?
Unruly Rhetorics is a collection of essays from scholars in rhetoric, communication, and writing studies inquiring into conditions for activism,...
by Kenneth Burke
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955. ESSAYS TOWARD A SYMBOLIC OF MOTIVES, 1950¬-1955 contains the work Burke planned to include in the third book in his Motivorum trilogy, which began with A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950). In these essays-some of which appear...
by Ayed Alqarni
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Rhetoric / Elocution / Oratory, , course: Master of Applied Linguistics , language: English, abstract: The context of the study is teaching English as a foreign language to four adult immigrant learners who attended the Bachelor of Arts...
by Samuel Boerboom, Joe Abisaid, Jennifer Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The Political Language of Food addresses why the language used in the production, marketing, selling, and consumption of food is inherently political. Food language is rarely neutral and is often strategically vague, which tends to serve the interests of powerful entities.Boerboom and his contributors...
by William L. Benoit
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A Functional Analysis of Political Television Advertisements examines theory and research on election advertisements. William Benoit employs the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse to understand the nature or content of television spots in election campaigns. Beginning with a look at...
The Great Silent Majority
Nixon's 1969 Speech on Vietnamization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
In his televised and widely watched speech to the nation on November 3, 1969, Pres. Richard M. Nixon introduced a phrase—“silent majority”—and a policy—Vietnamization of the war effort—that echo down to the present day. Nixon’s appearance on this night framed the terms in which much...