Rhetoric category: 666 books
Similes, Puns and Counterfactuals in Literary Narrative
Visible Figures
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In this study, Jennifer Riddle Harding presents a cognitive analysis of three figures of speech that have readily identifiable forms: similes, puns, and counterfactuals. Harding argues that when deployed in literary narrative, these forms have narrative functions—such as the depiction of conscious...
Reagan at Westminster
Foreshadowing the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
President Ronald Reagan’s famous address to the Houses of Parliament is now considered—in its spirit if not in its actual words—to be the initial enunciation of his “Evil Empire” stance. In this important volume by two experienced rhetorical scholars, Robert C. Rowland and John M. Jones...
Beyond New Media
Discourse and Critique in a Polymediated Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Beyond New Media: Discourse and Critique in a Polymediated Age examines a host of differing positions on media in order to explore how those positions can inform one another and build a basis for future engagements with media theory, research, and practice. Herbig, Herrmann, and Tyma have brought...
Pedaling the Sacrifice Zone
Teaching, Writing, and Living above the Marcellus Shale
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Before the dust settles, as many as 100,000 natural gas wells may be drilled into the Marcellus Shale on more than 20,000 well pads in Pennsylvania.
Living on seven acres above the shale, Jimmy Guignard tells his story as an English professor grappling with the meaning of place and the power...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This volume constitutes a unique contribution to the literature on literacy and culture in several respects. It links together aspects of social variation that have not often been thus juxtaposed: ethnicity/nationality, gender, and participant role relations. The unifying theme of this collection...
Retroactivism in the Lesbian Archives
Composing Pasts and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Winner, 2018 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award
Grassroots historiography has been essential in shaping American sexual identities in the twentieth century. Retroactivism in the Lesbian Archives examines how lesbian collectives have employed “retroactivist” rhetorics to propel...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
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 and violence, poverty, environmental degradation, and a host of other pressing issues. Precarous Rhetorics is...
Evolution by the Numbers
The Origins of Mathematical Argument in Biology
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
In Evolution by the Numbers: The Origins of Mathematical Argument in Biology, James Wynn examines the confluence of science, mathematics, and rhetoric in the development of theories of evolution and heredity in the nineteenth century. Evolution by the Numbers shows how mathematical warrants become...
The Powers of Articulation
Studying persuasion through The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Rhetoric / Elocution / Oratory, grade: 10th, , course: English II, language: English, abstract: Persuasion is a massive force. Understanding it is thus key to wielding a formidable power. William Shakespeare exposes persuasion's strength in his play, The Tragedy...
Genre
An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
GENRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY, THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PEDAGOGY provides a critical overview of the rich body of scholarship that has informed a “genre turn” in Rhetoric and Composition, including a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetorical theory, applied linguistics, sociology, philosophy, cognitive psychology, and literary theory.
The Two Cultures of English
Literature, Composition, and the Moment of Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
This book examines the long-standing divide in English between literary studies and composition from a new perspective, tracing the unwritten conversation between figures from across the discipline of English that do not typically interact.
Der TED-Effekt
Wie man perfekt visuell präsentiert für TED Talks, YouTube, Facebook, Videokonferenzen & Co
Language: German
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Maximal 18 Minuten, sehr große Reichweite und für die (Internet-)Ewigkeit - TED-Talks haben Präsentationen ganz neu definiert. Unterhaltsam, informativ und im Bestfall mitreißend sind TED-Talks auf der ganzen Welt zur Königsdisziplin des Vortragens geworden. Visuelles Präsentieren gewinnt aber...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Studying narratives is an ideal method to gain a good understanding of how various aspects of human information are organized and integrated. The concept and methods of a narrative, which have been explored in narratology and literary theories, are likely to be connected with contemporary information...
Rhetorische Analyse der 'Yes we can'-Rede von Barack Obama
New Hampshire Primary Speech am 08. Januar 2008
Language: German
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Rhetorik / Phonetik / Sprechwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Universität Regensburg (Zentrum für Sprache und Kommunikation), Veranstaltung: Rhetorik Schwerpunkt: Präsentation (Seminar), 11 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der US...