Rhetoric category: 666 books
Software Evangelism and the Rhetoric of Morality
Coding Justice in a Digital Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Examining the layers of meaning encoded in software and the rhetoric surrounding it, this book offers a much-needed perspective on the intersections between software, morality, and politics. In software development culture, evangelism typically denotes a rhetorical practice that aims to convert software...
Rhetorical Delivery and Digital Technologies
Networks, Affect, Electracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book theorizes digital logics and applications for the rhetorical canon of delivery. Digital writing technologies invite a re-evaluation about what delivery can offer to rhetorical studies and writing practices. Sean Moreyargues that what delivery provides is access to the unspeakable, unconscious...
Available Means of Persuasion, The
Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy of Multimodal Public Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
From the beginning, rhetoric has been a productive and practical art aimed at preparing citizens to participate in communal life. Possibilities for this participation are continually evolving in light of cultural and technological changes. The Available Means of Persuasion: Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy...
by Casey Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
In response to the pervasiveness of emerging communication technologies, Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice argues that information be understood as an embodied, material practice. The guiding proposition for this book is that digital rhetoric now concerns how bodies, broadly construed, become informed...
Communicating Mobility and Technology
A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Winner of the 2018 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication
Responding to the effects of human mobility and crises such as depleting oil supplies, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder turns specifically to automobility, a term...
by Sylvia Gonzalez-Gorman
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
What are microaggression cues, and what are examples of those cues in political rhetoric? How have microaggression cues from former presidents, elected officials, political candidates, and former candidate, now President, Trump led to further polarization of America's citizens? What are the connections...
Enduring Legacy
Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost Cause
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
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Rhetoric and ritual commemorating war has been a part of human culture for ages. In Enduring Legacy*,*W. Stuart Towns explores the crucial role of rhetoric and oratory in creating and propagating a “Lost Cause” public memory of the American...
Women's Irony
Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
In Women’s Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories,* *author Tarez Samra Graban synthesizes three decades of feminist scholarship in rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy to present irony as a critical paradigm for feminist rhetorical historiography that is not linked to humor, lying,...
The Rhetoric of Genocide
Death as a Text
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Genocide represents one of the deadliest scourges of the human experience. Communication practices provide the key missing ingredient toward preventing and ending this intensely symbolic activity. The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text reveals how strategic communication silences make this tragedy...
The Rhetoric of Soft Power
Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides a comparative assessment of public diplomacy and strategic communication initiatives, in order to portray how Joseph Nye’s notion of “soft power” has translated into context-specific strategies of international influence....
The Rhetoric of Plato's Republic
Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Plato isn’t exactly thought of as a champion of democracy, and perhaps even less as an important rhetorical theorist. In this book, James L. Kastely recasts Plato in just these lights, offering a vivid new reading of one of Plato’s most important works: the Republic. At heart, Kastely demonstrates,...
Rhetoric of Femininity
Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Rhetoric of Femininity: Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict offers critical and social identity intersectionalities approach to interpretations of femininity among three generations of women for a rhetorical examination of how femininity is made to mean by media and popular culture....
You Talkin' To Me?
Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Rhetoric is what gives words power. It's nothing to be afraid of. It isn't the exclusive preserve of politicians: it's everywhere, from your argument with the insurance company to your plea to the waitress for a table near the window. It convicts criminals (and then frees them on appeal). It causes...
Poets Beyond the Barricade
Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
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Since the cultural conflicts over the Vietnam War and civil rights protests, poets and poetry have consistently raised questions surrounding public address, social relations, friction between global policies and democratic institutions,...