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Much of the political polarization that grips the United States is rooted in the so-called culture wars, and no topic defines this conflict better than the often contentious and sometimes violent debate over abortion rights. In Sign of Pathology, Nathan Stormer reframes our understanding of this conflict...

The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience. How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful?...

In der Arbeit "Eristische Dialektik" werden die seit der Antike verwendeten philosophischen Grundbegriffe Eristik (Lehre vom Streitgespräch) und Dialektik (Kunst der Unterredung) angesprochen. Die von Schopenhauer selbst als Eristische Dialektik bezeichnete Disziplin - er spricht im Untertitel...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Rhetorik / Phonetik / Sprechwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit befasst sich mit der Narration am Beispiel des 40. US-Präsidenten Ronald Reagan. Der Republikaner,...

A clear summary of contemporary rhetorical philosophy and its intersections with hermeneutics and critical theory**.**   This book describes the significance of rhetorical knowledge for law through detailed discussions of some of the most difficult legal issues facing courts today,...

In ‘Vijfsterrencommunicatie’ laat Carmine Gallo zien hoe je anderen overtuigt van de waarde van jouw idee, hoe je grote groepen inspireert en hoe je je ontwikkelt van ‘good naar great’, zodat jouw vijfsterrenkwaliteiten duidelijk over het voetlicht komen. Overtuigingskracht is niet langer...

'Spreken in het openbaar' scoort altijd hoog als mensen gevraagd wordt `de tien ergste dingen' in hun leven te noemen. Bovendien zijn maar heel weinig mensen tevreden over hun spreekprestaties: het gaat niet vlot genoeg, ze kunnen niet soepel op vragen reageren en niet improviseren, vinden ze. Het...

A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators (2nd Edition) presents the major issues and questions in the field of writing program administration. The collection provides aspiring, new, and seasoned WPAs with the theoretical lenses, terminologies, historical contexts, and research they need to understand the nature, history, and complexities of their intellectual and administrative work.

This book is about moral talk in contemporary British political discourse, drawing on speeches, debates and radio phone-ins. Using a critical sociolinguistic approach, Spencer-Bennett explores the language people use to communicate moral judgement and highlights the relations between the things that...

Can linguistic pragmatics be developed without the need to formulate rules, criteria or maxims? The author argues that rules as they have been conceived of within pragmatics, particularly speech act theory, are limiting and out of step with the linguistic science of recent decades. Using a hermeneutic...

In all my years of travel I have seldom met anyone as sagacious as Henry Zeiter, and even more seldom have I met anyone more widely read. He knows a great deal about a great many things and something about almost everything else! This new volume of his musings will enrich anyone blessed enough to...

Le sociologue américain Harvey Sacks (1935-1975) a apporté une contribution décisive au développement de l’ethnométhodologie en fondant l’analyse de conversation et l’analyse des catégorisations. Il a renouvelé l’étude du rapport entre langage et action sociale en élaborant une démarche...

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...

This book presents a new theoretical framework -- what Gernsbacher calls the Structure Building Framework -- for understanding language comprehension in particular, and cognitive processing in general. According to this framework, the goal in comprehending both linguistic and nonlinguistic materials...