Rhetoric category: 666 books
by Wendy Atkins-Sayre, Renee S. Besel, Richard D. Besel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Bringing together the expertise of rhetoricians in English and communication as well as media studies scholars, Arguments about Animal Ethics delves into the rhetorical and discursive practices of participants in controversies over the use of nonhuman animals for meat, entertainment, fur, and vivisection....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
In this volume, rhetoricians, literacy scholars, and humanists have come together to examine the complex discursive constructions of sustainability. Touching on topics including conservation efforts in specific locales; social and political constructions of rhetorical place and space; community literacy;...
Understanding Humor through Communication
Why Be Funny, Anyway?
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Understanding Humor through Communication explores theories of humor origin as well as humor functions in human groups and societies through communication. A model of humor decision by individuals is detailed, followed by humor’s emergence in communication. Elements of humor sources (incongruity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
In The Centrality of Style, editors Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri argue that style is a central concern of composition studies even as they demonstrate that some of the most compelling work in the area has emerged from the margins of the field.
The Evolving Citizen
American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline seen to be more troubling than when the focus is on young Americans. Compared to the youth of past generations, today’s young adults, so the story goes,...
Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion
An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and...
Reading Sounds
Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices involved: How do you convey the sarcasm in a comeback? Do you include a henchman’s muttering in the background? Does the villain...
by Catherine Frank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
On the most important occasions of our lives, we often find ourselves at a loss for words; when we want to console, celebrate, explain, inspire, or thank, we end up repeating such uninspiring, uninformative phrases as "Words cannot express how I feel." To help us find the right words, Catherine...
by David Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
David Carrier examines the history and practice of art writing and reveals its importance to the art museum, the art gallery, and aesthetic theory. Artists, art historians, and art lovers alike can gain fresh insight into how written descriptions of painting and sculpture affect the experience of...
Eristische Dialektik: Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten
Kunst des Streitens, Kunst des Disputierens
Language: German
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Dieses eBook: "Eristische Dialektik: Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. In der Arbeit werden die seit der Antike verwendeten philosophischen Grundbegriffe Eristik (Lehre vom Streitgespräch)...
Competitive Debate
The Official Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
The bible for debaters and their coaches.
Nearly every high school and college in America has a debate club and/or a debate team. There are hundreds of competitions at the county and state level, culminating in heated national competitions. Yet, at many high schools and colleges, coaches are...
The Power of Words
Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2004
In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that "the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter." We recognize differences between a politician who is "willful" and...
Educational Ecologies
Toward a Symbolic-Material Understanding of Discourse, Technology, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
This book elucidates how technology has impacted the discourse and practices of higher education. Dowd situates current educational movements centered on new technologies, such as the Do It Yourself (DIY) movement, within broader ideological concepts concerned with education, progress, technology,...
I Have a Dream
The Speeches That Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an audience. It is inspiring to hear the words of people whose...