Deep Rhetoric

Author : James Crosswhite
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022601634X
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Rhetoric written by James Crosswhite and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter by chapter, 'Deep Rhetoric' develops an understanding of rhetoric not only in its philosophical dimension but also as a means of guiding and conducting conflicts, achieving justice and understanding the human condition.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472083862
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Law written by Austin Sarat and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996-01-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn interdisciplinary critique of the relationship between words and the law /div

Author : Xing Lu
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611177537
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Mao Zedong written by Xing Lu and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough examination of Mao’s speeches and writings and how they reshaped a nation “is critical to an understanding of modern China” (Choice). Mao Zedong fundamentally transformed China from a Confucian society characterized by hierarchy and harmony into a socialist state guided by communist ideologies of class struggle and radicalization. It was a transformation made possible largely by Mao’s rhetorical ability to attract, persuade, and mobilize millions of Chinese people. In this book, Xing Lu analyzes Mao’s speeches and writings over a span of sixty years, tracing the sources and evolution of his discourse, analyzing his skills as an orator and mythmaker, assessing his symbolic power and continuing presence in contemporary China, and observing that Mao’s rhetorical legacy has been commoditized, culturally consumed, and politically appropriated since his death. Applying both Western rhetorical theories and Chinese rhetorical concepts to reach a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of his rhetorical legacy, Lu shows how Mao employed a host of rhetorical appeals and strategies drawn from Chinese tradition and how he interpreted the discourse of Marxism-Leninism to serve foundational themes of his message. She traces the historical contexts in which these themes, his philosophical orientations, and his political views were formed and how they transformed China and Chinese people. Lu also examines how certain ideas are promoted, modified, and appropriated in Mao’s rhetoric. His appropriation of Marxist theory of class struggle, his campaigns of transforming common people into new communist advocates, his promotion of Chinese nationalism, and his stand on China’s foreign policy all contributed to and were responsible for reshaping Chinese thought patterns, culture, and communication behaviors.

Author : Wayne C. Booth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470765828
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of RHETORIC written by Wayne C. Booth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961). Explores the consequences of bad rhetoric in education, in politics, and in the media. Investigates the possibility of reducing harmful conflict by practising a rhetoric that depends on deep listening by both sides.

Author : Walter Jost
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470999845
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism written by Walter Jost and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. Assesses rhetoric’s place in the larger intellectual universe. Focuses on the practical side of rhetoric, looking at specific works, problems and figures. Provides examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day. Written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields.

Author : Matthew Abraham
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602356955
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a Critical Rhetoric on the Israel-Palestine Conflict written by Matthew Abraham and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together a group of rhetoricians seeking to develop productive ways to discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict,while avoiding the discursive impasses that so often derail attempts to exchange points of view.

Author : Jennifer Mercieca
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623499070
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demagogue for President written by Jennifer Mercieca and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Bronze, 2020 Foreword Indies, Political and Social Sciences Winner, 2021 PROSE Award for Government & Politics "Deserves a place alongside George Orwell’s 'Politics and the English Language'. . . . one of the most important political books of this perilous summer."—The Washington Post "A must-read"—Salon "Highly recommended"—Jack Shafer, Politico Featured in "The Best New Books to Read This Summer" and "Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2020"—Literary Hub Historic levels of polarization, a disaffected and frustrated electorate, and widespread distrust of government, the news media, and traditional political leadership set the stage in 2016 for an unexpected, unlikely, and unprecedented presidential contest. Donald Trump’s campaign speeches and other rhetoric seemed on the surface to be simplistic, repetitive, and disorganized to many. As Demagogue for President shows, Trump’s campaign strategy was anything but simple. Political communication expert Jennifer Mercieca shows how the Trump campaign expertly used the common rhetorical techniques of a demagogue, a word with two contradictory definitions—“a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power” or “a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times” (Merriam-Webster, 2019). These strategies, in conjunction with post-rhetorical public relations techniques, were meant to appeal to a segment of an already distrustful electorate. It was an effective tactic. Mercieca analyzes rhetorical strategies such as argument ad hominem, argument ad baculum, argument ad populum, reification, paralipsis, and more to reveal a campaign that was morally repugnant to some but to others a brilliant appeal to American exceptionalism. By all accounts, it fundamentally changed the discourse of the American public sphere.

Author : Amy Propen
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602352577
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locating Visual-Material Rhetorics written by Amy Propen and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parks, maps, and mapping technologies like the GPS are objects of visual and material culture that rely on the interplay of text, context, image, and space to guide our interpretations of the world around us. LOCATING VISUAL-MATERIAL RHETORICS: THE MAP, THE MILL, AND THE GPS examines in depth, and in several contemporary settings, how visual and material discursive artifacts, when understood as rhetorical, shape our understanding of the unique cultural moments that these artifacts set out to represent.

Author : Alex C. Parrish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317918029
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adaptive Rhetoric written by Alex C. Parrish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetorical scholarship has for decades relied solely on culture to explain persuasive behavior. While this focus allows for deep explorations of historical circumstance, it neglects the powerful effects of biology on rhetorical behavior – how our bodies and brains help shape and constrain rhetorical acts. Not only is the cultural model incomplete, but it tacitly endorses the fallacy of human exceptionalism. By introducing evolutionary biology into the study of rhetoric, this book serves as a model of a biocultural paradigm. Being mindful of biological and cultural influences allows for a deeper view of rhetoric, one that is aware of the ubiquity of persuasive behavior in nature. Human and nonhuman animals, and even some plants, persuade to survive - to live, love, and cooperate. That this broad spectrum of rhetorical behavior exists in the animal world demonstrates how much we can learn from evolutionary biology. By incorporating scholarship on animal signaling into the study of rhetoric, the author explores how communication has evolved, and how numerous different species of animals employ similar persuasive tactics in order to overcome similar problems. This cross-species study of rhetoric allows us to trace the origins of our own persuasive behaviors, providing us with a deeper history of rhetoric that transcends the written and the televised, and reveals the artifacts of our communicative past.

Author : Scott R. Stroud
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271061111
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric written by Scott R. Stroud and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immanuel Kant is rarely connected to rhetoric by those who study philosophy or the rhetorical tradition. If anything, Kant is said to see rhetoric as mere manipulation and as not worthy of attention. In Kant and the Promise of Rhetoric, Scott Stroud presents a first-of-its-kind reappraisal of Kant and the role he gives rhetorical practices in his philosophy. By examining the range of terms that Kant employs to discuss various forms of communication, Stroud argues that the general thesis that Kant disparaged rhetoric is untenable. Instead, he offers a more nuanced view of Kant on rhetoric and its relation to moral cultivation. For Kant, certain rhetorical practices in education, religious settings, and public argument become vital tools to move humans toward moral improvement without infringing on their individual autonomy. Through the use of rhetorical means such as examples, religious narratives, symbols, group prayer, and fallibilistic public argument, individuals can persuade other agents to move toward more cultivated states of inner and outer autonomy. For the Kant recovered in this book, rhetoric becomes another part of human activity that can be animated by the value of humanity, and it can serve as a powerful tool to convince agents to embark on the arduous task of moral self-cultivation.