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  • Writing Artifacts

    Edited by Cydney Alexis, Hannah J. Rule ...
    This book is an interdisciplinary collection of concise investigations into everyday artifacts that matter to writers and writing.With the collection’s 31 contributors and through the lens of material culture studies, the editors make a case that the study of writing is the study of artifacts. Each chapter centers on a distinct artifact, including an 1899 course notebook, the delete key, the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Material Culture of Writing

    Edited by Cydney Alexis, Hannah Rule ...
    The Material Culture of Writing opens up avenues for understanding writing through scholarship in material culture studies. Contributors to this volume each interrogate an object, set of objects, or writing environment to reveal the sociomaterial contexts from which writing emerges. The artifacts studied are both contemporary and historical, including ink, a Victorian hotel visitors’ book, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things

    by Scot Barnett, Casey Boyle, Marilyn M. Cooper, John Muckelbauer, Christa Teston, Katie Zabrowski, Donnie Johnson Sackey, Cydney Alexis0, Kevin Rutherford1, Jason Palmeri2, S. Scott Graham3, Kristie S. Fleckenstein4, Brian J. McNely5, Laurie Ellen Gries6, Kim Lacey7, Jodie Nicotra8, Sarah Overbaugh Hallenbeck9, Nathaniel A. Rivers0, Thomas Rickert1, William Hart-Davidson2, James J. Brown Jr.3 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A fascinating addition to rhetoric scholarship, Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things expands the scope of rhetorical situations beyond the familiar humanist triad of speaker-audience-purpose to an inclusive study of inanimate objects.The fifteen essays in Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things persuasively overturn the stubborn assumption that objects are passive tools in the hands of objective human ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition

    Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age

    Edited by Theresa Jarnagin Enos ...
    This reference guide surveys the field, covering rhetoric's principles, concepts, applications, practical tools, and major thinkers. Drawing on the scholarship and expertise of 288 contributors, the Encyclopedia presents a long-needed overview of rhetoric and its role in contemporary education and communications, discusses rhetoric's contributions to various fields, surveys the applications of ... Read more

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  • Tropic Tendencies

    Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean

    by Kevin Browne ...
    Series Book 163 - Composition, Literacy, and Culture
    A legacy of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and class struggle has profoundly impacted the people and culture of the Caribbean. In Tropic Tendencies, Kevin Adonis Browne examines the development of an Anglophone Caribbean rhetorical tradition in response to the struggle to make meaning, maintain identity, negotiate across differences, and thrive in light of historical constraints and the need to ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics

    Edited by Ruth Wodak, Bernhard Forchtner ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics provides a comprehensive overview of this important and dynamic area of study and research. Language is indispensable to initiating, justifying, legitimatising and coordinating action as well as negotiating conflict and, as such, is intrinsically linked to the area of politics. With 45 chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, this ... Read more

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  • Five Chapters on Rhetoric

    Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art

    by Michael S. Kochin ...
    Michael Kochin’s radical exploration of rhetoric is built around five fundamental concepts that illuminate how rhetoric functions in the public sphere. To speak persuasively is to bring new things into existence—to create a political movement out of a crowd, or an army out of a mob.Five Chapters on Rhetoric explores our path to things through our judgments of character and action. It shows how ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

    Edited by Michael J. MacDonald ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    One of the most remarkable trends in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades has been the resurgence of interest in the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric: in an age of global media networks and viral communication, rhetoric is once again "contagious" and "communicable" (Friedrich Nietzsche). Featuring sixty commissioned chapters by eminent scholars of rhetoric from twelve ... Read more

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  • Living Chronic

    Agency and Expertise in the Rhetoric of Diabetes

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  • Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory

    A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments

    by Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, Ralph H. Johnson, Christian Plantin, Charles A. Willard ...
    Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis, linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology, political science and education, sociology and law, and rhetoric and artificial intelligence. This presents the growing group of interested scholars and ... Read more

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  • Praising Girls

    The Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930

    by Henrietta Rix Wood ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
    In Praising Girls, Henrietta Rix Wood explores how ordinary schoolgirls engaged in extraordinary rhetorical activities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. Focusing on high school girls’ public writing, Wood analyzes newspaper editorials and articles, creative writing projects, yearbook entries, and literary magazines, revealing how young women employed ... Read more

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