Rhetoric

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Our political landscape is crowded with competing voices-claims, demands, grievances, and even acts of violence-all made in the name of some idea of "the people." This powerful concept has been wielded both to assert democratic sovereignty and to justify...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering is a comprehensive work that delves into the complex interplay between language, culture, politics, and media in shaping the human mind.The book is divided into five main sections, each exploring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646427987Author Charles McMartinFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Blending theory and practice, this book outlines the central role that strategic maneuvering and argumentative style play in argumentative discourse. Strategic maneuvering refers to the functional connection arguers create between aiming for...

This innovative textbook redefines the study of rhetoric by moving beyond traditional teachings of argument structure and logical fallacies to explore the rich tapestry of persuasive messages embedded in everyday life.From political speeches and social...

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As our divided political climate attests, rational deliberation has failed to persuade people to rally around issues of public health, race and gender-based violence, climate threats, and political demagoguery. In response, scholars are increasingly...

As our divided political climate attests, rational deliberation has failed to persuade people to rally around issues of public health, race and gender-based violence, climate threats, and political demagoguery. In response, scholars are increasingly...

Todd Frobish explores a diverse set of historical crises through the lens of "rhetorical gameplay", an approach that serves as the intersection between rhetorical theory and game studies.The field of rhetorical studies has yet to embrace the subject of...

In this rhetorical examination, Dakota Park-Ozee and Jason Jordan delve into the contemporary panic surrounding transgender women in sport and reveal that fairness is not a rhetorical value that promotes equality or justice, but one that further...

By better understanding the "genre" of environmental public hearings, one can challenge ideas of effectiveness and consensus so that citizens can learn to advocate more effectively for their concerns about environmental issues.This book addresses how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646427789Author Laurie GrobmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646427772Author Laurie GrobmanFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

This book considers the rhetorical strategies used by celebrities and their surrogates and attorneys when faced with claims of sexual misconduct.During the past five years, a series of public figures has claimed that their celebrity persona is distinct...

Examines digitality's connection to land, water, and landscapes, and its implication in conditions of environmental harm.Book InformationISBN 9780817322472Author Dustin EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher...

Examines digitality's connection to land, water, and landscapes, and its implication in conditions of environmental harm.Book InformationISBN 9780817362195Author Dustin EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher...

Challenges the notion that transgender antidiscrimination law is a simple question of inclusion versus exclusion. The author uses the tools of rhetorical analysis to understand what the law is called to do, what it actually does, and what its limitations...

Challenges the notion that transgender antidiscrimination law is a simple question of inclusion versus exclusion. The author uses the tools of rhetorical analysis to understand what the law is called to do, what it actually does, and what its limitations...

By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, this updated eighth edition gives students a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of...

Advancing feminist rhetorical methods for social change In a world marked by political polarization and racial, sexist, ableist, and class-based injustices, feminist rhetorical research is vital to ongoing struggles for social justice-in communities, in...

Throughout US history, only three Black women-Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris-have given successfully recognized bids for the office of president of the United States. In A Black Woman for President, author Dianna N...

A moving study of how encounters with beauty advance scientific discovery. Our attempts to understand the world are always more than simply rational. Our bodies learn through lived experience, our natural environments challenge what we think we know, and...

Throughout US history, only three Black women-Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris-have given successfully recognized bids for the office of president of the United States. In A Black Woman for President, author Dianna N...

Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter-treaties, new species, software, and letters to the editor-as they interact...

A moving study of how encounters with beauty advance scientific discovery. Our attempts to understand the world are always more than simply rational. Our bodies learn through lived experience, our natural environments challenge what we think we know, and...

This book offers a reassessment of argumentation in classical rhetoric, foregrounding its rational dimension. This concise yet comprehensive book will interest intermediate and advanced students, as well as scholars of rhetoric, argumentation,...

Before the start of the Civil War, the US Congress seldom took up the question of education, deferring regularly to a tradition of local control. In the period after the war, however, education became a major concern of the federal government. Many...

Before the start of the Civil War, the US Congress seldom took up the question of education, deferring regularly to a tradition of local control. In the period after the war, however, education became a major concern of the federal government. Many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781003863236Author Nathan CrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book takes a close look at systems and rhetorics of silencing in sports training. Using the case study of the Larry Nassar abuse scandal at Michigan State University and within USA Gymnastics, the book explores multifaceted problems of speaking,...

Known as the "swing justice," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy provided the key vote determining which way the Supreme Court would decide on some of the most controversial cases in US history. Though criticized for his unpredictable rulings, Kennedy also...

Difficult Empathy takes up the question of empathy as fundamentally a rhetorical concern, focusing on the ways we encounter and understand one another in what we read and write, hear and say. The book centres around the argument that empathy as a...

Bringing together expert rhetorical theorists and technologists, this book explores our current understanding of and attitudes toward ethos, credibility and trust in today's changing technological landscape.Recent advancements in technology, including...

This book explores the U.S. asylum process and how those seeking shelter deal with the rhetorical pressures of compelling asylum narratives they need to write in order to stay.Centred around a study conducted at a shelter on the US border, this book...