Rhetoric category: 666 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources. Researchers can now quickly trace every one of Issac Newton’s annotations, use social media to engage academic and public audiences in the interpretation of cultural texts,...
Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form
Sighting Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are increasingly...
by Kwesi Yankah
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Attracting renewed attention by a new generation of scholars, the book presents a comprehensive ethnography of proverb communication in an African culture and achieves a significant breakthrough in proverb studies. The author critically reviews the dynamics of the proverb, one verbal genre that embodies...
The Multimediated Rhetoric of the Internet
Digital Fusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This project is a critical, rhetorical study of the digital text we call the Internet, in particular the style and figurative surface of its many pages as well as the conceptual, design patterns structuring the content of those same pages. Handa argues that as our lives become increasingly digital,...
The Politics of the Superficial
Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display, Brett Ommen explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. He shows that graphic design is a layered experience of images and space. Before images, viewers engage in the personal...
Image Politics
The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This exceptional volume examines “image events” as a rhetorical tactic utilized by environmental activists. Author Kevin Michael DeLuca analyzes widely televised environmentalist actions in depth to illustrate how the image event fulfills fundamental rhetorical functions in constructing and transforming...
Editorial Bodies
Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts to perfect, publish, and preserve both new and old writing. In Editorial Bodies, Michele Kennerly argues that such efforts were commonly articulated through the extended metaphor of...
What Democracy Looks Like
The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused by those in sociology, political science, and cultural studies.
Recent protests around the...
Building a Social Democracy
The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the major entailment of the invention of American pragmatism...
Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1675-1975
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context represents the intersection of knowledge and method, examined from the perspective of three distinct disciplines: linguistics, rhetoric-composition, and history. Herein, Dwight Atkinson describes the written language and rhetoric of the Royal Society...
Political Women
Language and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This collection examines the ways in which women have used political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership, or assert their right to leadership, at the national level. While over the years women have broken through traditional roles, they are still underrepresented in political leadership....
by Gary C. Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
The Rhetoric of Intention in Human Affairs is an insightful account of the rhetorical and psychological habits we exhibit when we must explain the reasons others act. The assumption that we can know what motivates another person is fed by more hope than certainty, and yet it is evidence of a very...
President Donald Trump and His Political Discourse
Ramifications of Rhetoric via Twitter
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
President Donald Trump and His Political Discourse brings together a diverse collection of perspectives on President Trump’s Twitter rhetoric. Truly unique in its in-depth exploration, the volume demonstrates the ways in which international and U.S. relations, media and "fake news," and...
by Elenore Long
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2008
Offering a comparative analysis of “community-literacy studies," Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics traces common values in diverse accounts of “ordinary people going public.” Elenore Long offers a five-point theoretical framework. Used to review major community-literacy...