Rhetoric category: 666 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience — the preservation and conservation of the earth and the future of human society. This book explores some...
Rhetoric and Pedagogy
Its History, Philosophy, and Practice: Essays in Honor of James J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
To provide a view of the history of western rhetoric, this volume presents original articles by a number of world-renowned scholars representing different countries and varying viewpoints. In discussing the status of the historical perspectives on rhetoric, these international scholars also present...
Citizen Science in the Digital Age
Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection
James Wynn’s timely investigation highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies...
An African Athens
Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
An African Athens offers an analysis of a new ecology of rhetoric--the reshaping of a nation into a democracy through rhetorical means. Author Philippe-Joseph Salazar provides a general view of issues as they have taken shape in the apartheid and post-apartheid South African experience, presenting...
A City of Marble
The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate...
Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education
American Women Learn to Speak
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation...
Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Literacy
Selected Papers From the 1994 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This volume presents a representative cross-section of the more than 200 papers presented at the 1994 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. The contributors reflect multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives -- English, speech communication, philosophy, rhetoric, composition studies, comparative...
by Clay Spinuzzi, Carl G. Herndl, S. Scott Graham
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, Bruno Latour has inspired scholarship across many disciplines. In the past few years, the fields of rhetoric and composition have witnessed an explosion of interest in Latour’s work. Editors Paul Lynch and...
Race, Rhetoric, and Technology
Searching for Higher Ground
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
In this book Adam Banks uses the concept of the Digital Divide as a metonym for America's larger racial divide, in an attempt to figure out what meaningful access for African Americans to technologies and the larger American society can or should mean. He argues that African American rhetorical traditions--the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Common topics and commonplaces help develop arguments and shape understanding. When used in argumentation, they may help interested parties more effectively communicate valuable information. The purpose of this edited collection on topics of environmental rhetoric is to fill gaps in scholarship related...
by Richard M. Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Weaver's Ethics of Rhetoric, originally published in 1953, has been called his most important statement on the ethical and cultural role of rhetoric. A strong advocate of cultural conservatism, Weaver (1910-1953) argued strongly for the role of liberal studies in the face of what he saw as the encroachments...
The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice
Procedural Habits
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice offers a critical reassessment of embodiment and materiality in rhetorical considerations of videogames. Holmes argues that rhetorical and philosophical conceptions of "habit" offer a critical resource for describing the interplay between thinking (writing...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Theorizing Digital Rhetoric takes up the intersection of rhetorical theory and digital technology to explore the ways in which rhetoric is challenged by new technologies and how rhetorical theory can illuminate discursive expression in digital contexts. The volume combines complex rhetorical theory...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
An outgrowth of the recent meeting of the International Society of the History of Rhetoric, this collection challenges the reader to reexamine the broad influence of 18th- and 19th-century Scottish rhetoric, often credited for shaping present-day studies in psychology, philosophy, literary criticism,...