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Current Arguments in Composition eBook Series

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  • Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition

    by Bruce Mccomiskey ...
    Series series Current Arguments in Composition
    Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition is a timely exploration of the increasingly widespread and disturbing effect of “post-truth” on public discourse in the United States. Bruce McComiskey analyzes the instances of bullshit, fake news, feigned ethos, hyperbole, and other forms of post-truth rhetoric employed in recent political discourse.The book frames “post-truth” within rhetorical theory, ... Read more

    5,61 €

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    by Jamie Whyte ...
    Uncover the truth under all the BSIn the daily battle for our hearts and minds--not to mention our hard-earned cash--the truth is usually the first casualty. It's time we learned how to see through the rhetoric, faulty reasoning, and misinformation that we're subjected to from morning to night by talk-radio hosts, op-ed columnists, advertisers, self-help gurus, business "thinkers," and, of course, ... Read more

    13,56 €

  • Interfaces of the Word

    Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture

    by Walter J. Ong ...
    Drawing on a wide range of disciplines—linguistics, phenomenological analysis, cultural anthropology, media studies, and intellectual history—Walter J. Ong offers a reasoned and sophisticated view of human consciousness different in many respects from that of structuralism. The essays in Interfaces of the Word are grouped around the dialectically related themes of change or alienation and growth ... Read more

    26,70 €

  • The Elements of Great Public Speaking

    How to Be Calm, Confident, and Compelling

    by J. Lyman Macinnis ...
    **“A practical guide to thumb through before every speech, whether it’s your first or 500th.”—USA Today“A must-read guide to delivering a memorable speech and leaving the audience wanting more.”—Hon. Frank McKenna, former Canadian ambassador to the United States**Great speakers aren't just born; they prepare and they practice. The Elements of Great Public Speaking takes the fear out of taking the ... Read more

    4,34 €

  • Analyze, Organize, Write

    by Arthur Whimbey, Elizabeth Lynn Jenkins ...
    This book offers students a method for understanding and mastering the rhetorical patterns that comprise expository writing. Its exercises ask students to arrange jumbled sentences into logical order, forming model essays for standard rhetorical patterns such as comparison/contrast, classification, and thesis support. These techniques force students to see the basic logic of different writing ... Read more

    49,91 €

  • Postcolonial Cinema Studies

    Edited by Sandra Ponzanesi, Marguerite Waller ...
    This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial historiography, geography, subjectivity, and epistemology.Current circumstances of migration and ... Read more

    49,91 €

  • Social Justice and Communication Scholarship

    Edited by Omar Swartz ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Social Justice and Communication Scholarship explores the role of communication in framing and contributing to issues of social justice. This collection, a first on the subject of communication and social justice, investigates the theoretical and practical ways in which communication scholarship can enable inclusive and equitable communities within American society. It analyzes ways in which to ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • The Language of Brexit

    How Britain Talked Its Way Out of the European Union

    by Dr Steve Buckledee ...
    Investigating the 2016 EU Referendum in the UK, The Language of Brexit explores the ways in which 'Brexit' campaigners utilised language more persuasively than their 'Remain' counterparts. Drawing parallels with effective political discourse used worldwide, this book highlights the linguistic features of an increasingly popular style of political campaigning.Concentrating on the highly successful ... Read more

    22,99 €

  • Racial Worldmaking

    The Power of Popular Fiction

    by Mark C. Jerng ...
    When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and persons and then link those perceptions to unjust practices of racial inequality. Racial Worldmaking argues that we do not just see race. We are taught ... Read more

    29,56 €

  • Rhetorics of Names and Naming

    Edited by Star Medzerian Vanguri ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    This volume takes up rhetorical approaches to our primarily linguistic understanding of how names work, considering how theories of materiality in rhetoric enrich conceptions of the name as word or symbol and help explain the processes of name bestowal, accumulation, loss, and theft. Contributors theorize the formation, modification, and recontexualization of names as a result of technological and ... Read more

    60,87 €

  • Text + Field

    Innovations in Rhetorical Method

    Edited by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, Robert Glenn Howard ...
    Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engagement with texts. Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead to the growing number of scholars who are supplementing text-based scholarship by venturing out ... Read more

    26,49 €

  • Reality Bites

    Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture

    by Dana L. Cloud ...
    Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political rhetoric in the face of widespread skepticism regarding the utility, ethics, and viability of an empirical standard for political truths. Cloud observes how appeals to truth ... Read more

    24,48 €