The Rhetorical Turn

Author : Herbert W. Simons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226759032
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetorical Turn written by Herbert W. Simons and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have only recently started to challenge the notion that "serious" inquiry can be free of rhetoric, that it can rely exclusively on "hard" fact and "cold" logic in support of its claims. Increasingly, scholars are shifting their attention from methods of proof to the heuristic methods of debate and discussion—the art of rhetoric—to examine how scholarly discourse is shaped by tropes and figures, by the naming and framing of issues, and by the need to adapt arguments to ends, audiences, and circumstances. Herbert W. Simons and the contributors to this important collection of essays provide impressive evidence that the new movement referred to as the rhetorical turn offers a rigorous way to look within and across the disciplines. The Rhetorical Turn moves from biology to politics via excursions into the rhetorics of psychoanalysis, decision science, and conversational analysis. Topics explored include how rhetorical invention guides scientific invention, how rhetoric assists political judgment, and how it integrates varying approaches to meta-theory. Concluding with four philosophical essays, this volume of case studies demonstrates how the inventive and persuasive dimensions of scholarly discourse point the way to forms of argument appropriate to our postmodern age.

Author : Robert Hariman
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 087013891X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Realism written by Robert Hariman and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1996-08-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beer and Hariman provide a coherent set of essays that trace and challenge the tradition of realism which has dominated the thinking of academics and practitioners alike. These timely essays set out a systematic investigation of the major realist writers of the Post- War era, the foundational concepts of international politics, and representative case studies of political discourse.

Author : Chip Sills
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Discourse written by Chip Sills and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lei Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351242350
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affect, Emotion, and Rhetorical Persuasion in Mass Communication written by Lei Zhang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the interplay between affect theory and rhetorical persuasion in mass communication. The essays collected here draw connections between affect theory, rhetorical studies, mass communication theory, cultural studies, political science, sociology, and a host of other disciplines. Contributions from a wide range of scholars feature theoretical overviews and critical perspectives on the movement commonly referred to as "the affective turn" as well as case studies. Critical investigations of the rhetorical strategies behind the 2016 United States presidential election, public health and antiterrorism mass media campaigns, television commercials, and the digital spread of fake news, among other issues, will prove to be both timely and of enduring value. This book will be of use to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and active researchers in communication, rhetoric, political science, social psychology, sociology, and cultural studies.

Author : John Louis Lucaites
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572304017
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Rhetorical Theory written by John Louis Lucaites and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This indispensable text brings together important essays on the themes, issues, and controversies that have shaped the development of rhetorical theory since the late 1960s. An extensive introduction and epilogue by the editors thoughtfully examine the current state of the field and its future directions, focusing in particular on how theorists are negotiating the tensions between modernist and postmodernist considerations. Each of the volume's eight main sections comprises a brief explanatory introduction, four to six essays selected for their enduring significance, and suggestions for further reading. Topics addressed include problems of defining rhetoric, the relationship between rhetoric and epistemology, the rhetorical situation, reason and public morality, the nature of the audience, the role of discourse in social change, rhetoric in the mass media, and challenges to rhetorical theory from the margins. An extensive subject index facilitates comparison of key concepts and principles across all of the essays featured.

Author : Christian Kock
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271060298
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation written by Christian Kock and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizenship has long been a central topic among educators, philosophers, and political theorists. Using the phrase “rhetorical citizenship” as a unifying perspective, Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation aims to develop an understanding of citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, arguing that discourse is not prefatory to real action but in many ways constitutive of civic engagement. To accomplish this, the book brings together, in a cross-disciplinary effort, contributions by scholars in fields that rarely intersect. For the most part, discussions of citizenship have focused on aspects that are central to the “liberal” tradition of social thought—that is, questions of the freedoms and rights of citizens and groups. This collection gives voice to a “republican” conception of citizenship. Seeing participation and debate as central to being a citizen, this tradition looks back to the Greek city-states and republican Rome. Citizenship, in this sense of the word, is rhetorical citizenship. Rhetoric is thus at the core of being a citizen. Aside from the editors, the contributors are John Adams, Paula Cossart, Jonas Gabrielsen, Jette Barnholdt Hansen, Kasper Møller Hansen, Sine Nørholm Just, Ildikó Kaposi, William Keith, Bart van Klink, Marie Lund Klujeff, Manfred Kraus, Oliver W. Lembcke, Berit von der Lippe, James McDonald, Niels Møller Nielsen, Tatiana Tatarchevskiy, Italo Testa, Georgia Warnke, Kristian Wedberg, and Stephen West.

Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1850756716
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetorical Analysis of Scripture written by Stanley E. Porter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third in a series of conference papers on rhetorical criticism. Held in July 1995 in London, the conference included participants from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the Republic of South Africa. Part I is concerned with the past, present and future of rhetorical analysis; Parts II, III and IV are concerned with rhetorical analysis of scriptural texts; and Part V provides a conclusion reflecting on a number of questions raised in Part I. Most of the participants would characterize themselves as advocates of rhetorical criticism; but there were others less convinced that rhetorical criticism is developing as it ought.

Author : Christian Meyer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857451138
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture written by Christian Meyer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric” - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It is the latter half that this volume explores: how does culture emerge out of rhetorical action, out of seemingly dispersed individual actions and interactions? The contributors do not rely on rhetorical “text” alone but engage the situational, bodily, and often antagonistic character of cultural and communicative practices. The social situation itself is argued to be the fundamental site of cultural creation, as will-driven social processes are shaped by cognitive dispositions and shape them in turn. Drawing on expertise in a variety of disciplines and regions, the contributors critically engage dialogical approaches in their emphasis on how a view from rhetoric changes our perception of people's intersubjective and conjoint creation of culture.

Author : Christopher Minnix
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319717251
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and the Global Turn in Higher Education written by Christopher Minnix and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the role of rhetoric in the expansive movement for global higher education in U.S. colleges and universities. Drawing on an analysis of how discourses of security, economy, and ethics shape the rhetoric of global higher education, as well as that of its populist and nationalist critics, the author argues for an understanding of global higher education as a site of rhetorical conflict over visions of students as citizens. In doing so, the work advances the project of transnational rhetorical education, a theoretical and pedagogical project that can foster forms of rhetorical inquiry, performance, and ethics that equip students to pursue transnational forms of civic engagement, belonging, and resistance. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of rhetoric and composition studies, communication, and education, as well as to faculty and administrators working in global higher education or internationalization programs.

Author : Mark Forsyth
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781785781728
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elements of Eloquence written by Mark Forsyth and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON. 'An informative but highly entertaining journey through the figures of rhetoric ... Mark Forsyth wears his considerable knowledge lightly. He also writes beautifully.' David Marsh, Guardian. Mark Forsyth presents the secret of writing unforgettable phrases, uncovering the techniques that have made immortal such lines as 'To be or not to be' and 'Bond. James Bond.' In his inimitably entertaining and witty style, he takes apart famous quotations and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde or John Lennon. Crammed with tricks to make the most humdrum sentiments seem poetic or wise, The Elements of Eloquencereveals how writers through the ages have turned humble words into literary gold - and how you can do the same.