Rhetoric

Through a fusion of narrative and analysis, Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage examines how theater can enact critical discourse analysis and how micro-instances of iniquitous language use have been politically and historically reiterated to...

Drawing on psychoanalytic and semiotic perspectives, this book examines discourses mediating the global War on Terror, including governmental speeches, legal documents, print and broadcast journalism, and military memoirs. The book argues that these...

For over thirty years, Steven Mailloux has championed and advanced the field of rhetorical hermeneutics, a historically and theoretically informed approach to textual interpretation. This volume collects fourteen of his most recent influential essays on...

This collection of essays features the theme of what people wanted as children. The contributing writers include: Doris Lessing, Paul Auster, Brian MacKinnon and Nell Stroud. There are also pieces by George Steiner, J.M. Coetzee, Joyce Carol Oates, John...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913559857Author BooneFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Birch Brook PressPublisher Birch Brook PressWeight(grams) 190g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120758735Author Vijaya KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 108g

How do you show students that revision is more than a classroom exercise to please the teacher? Take them into the real world of writing for publication. In Real Revision, award-winning author and teacher Kate Messner demystifies the revision process for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632864963Author John MichellFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury USAWeight(grams) 844gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 160mm *...

Nearly sixty years after Freedom Summer, its events-especially the lynching of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner-stand out as a critical episode of the civil rights movement. The infamous deaths of these activists dominate not just the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952178146Author Amy JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Wooden BooksPublisher Wooden BooksWeight(grams) 100g

Systemic Functional Political Discourse Analysis: A Text-based Study is the first book which takes a comprehensive systemic functional perspective on political discourse to provide a complete, integrated, exhaustive, systemic and functional description...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607748090Author Dinty W. MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 185mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866986052Author James J MurphyFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Acmrs PublicationsPublisher Acmrs PublicationsWeight(grams) 5443g

The Sixth Edition of Barry Brummett’s Rhetoric in Popular Culture provides readers with in-depth insight into the techniques of rhetorical criticism to analyze the full spectrum of contemporary issues in popular culture. Exploring a wide range of mass...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814134214Author Thomas M. McCannFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814101988Author Kathleen Blake YanceyFormat PaperbackImprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of English

Antiracist Discourse in Brazil: From Abolition to Affirmative Action follows Teun A. van Dijk’s earlier studies on racist discourse in Europe, the USA, and Latin America. This book focuses on antiracist discourse, focusing on the history of the discourse...

Drawing on the pedagogy, rhetorical theory, and student editor insights of The Argument Handbook, The Argument Toolbox is a very concise resource designed to help first year composition students, rhetoric and writing students, and first year seminar...

Querying Consent examines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships, global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of production and consumption, and literary and artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438425832Author Sidney I. DobrinFormat HardbackPage Count 339Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814159231Author Scott WarnockFormat PaperbackImprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of English

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 Morey argues that what delivery...

The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons provides an extensive analysis of knowledge and creativity in twenty-first century networked culture. Analyzing massive projects like the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive, and the Creative Commons...

Stripped examines the ways in which erotic bodies communicate in performance and as cultural figures. Focusing on symbols independent of language, Maggie M. Werner explores the signs and signals of erotic dance, audience responses to these codes, and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558615892Author Moha EnnajiFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

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...

In the 1920s, the US government passed legislation against undocumented entry into the country, and as a result the figure of the “illegal alien” took form in the national discourse. In this book, Lisa A. Flores explores the history of our language about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814131961Author Claire LutkewitteFormat PaperbackImprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of English

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...

Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" in the Age of Pseudocracy visits the essay as if for the first time, clearing away lore about the essay and responding to the prose itself. It shows how many of Orwell's rules and admonitions are far...

A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.   Why is it difficult to talk about climate change? Debra Hawhee argues that contemporary rhetoric relies on classical assumptions about humanity and history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258675Author Jennifer Lin LemesurierFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814108789Author Aja Y. MartinezFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646422791Author Scott GageFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258446Author Jennifer Clary-LemonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Investigates the rhetorical practices that contemporary evangelical Christian women use to confront theological and cultural issues that stymie deliberation within their communities regarding how to respond to sexual assault and domestic violence, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814138007Author Ashley J HolmesFormat PaperbackImprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of English

In this volume, Ryden and Marshall bring together the field of composition and rhetoric with critical whiteness studies to show that in our "post race" era whiteness and racism not only survive but actually thrive in higher education. As they...

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...