Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today.
Drawing from the works of George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke, and Mikhail Bakhtin, this work argues that everyday interactions are inescapably dramas, conducted through the use of dialogues in order to promote mutual understanding.
Literacies and Rhetorics for Transforming Food Systems in Local and Tran
In this edited collection, contributors analyze the literacies, rhetorics, and pedagogies needed to transform food systems and create sustainable food systems. Scholars of rhetoric, interdisciplinary food studies, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.
This entertaining and informative work uses data driven analysis to guide and enhance the study of linguistic and stylistic differences in written game summaries. Timely and illustrative, The Spanish Lexicon of Baseball: Semantics, Style, and Terminology will appeal to fans of the game as well as students of lexicon.
In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan Jose Colomina-Alminana argues that language meaning determination requires close attention to the constant interaction between speech communities, speaker's intentions, and the audience's uptakes.
This book interweaves rhetoric, history, and politics to tell the story of the 1824 presidential election and the political drama that engulfed Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams.
A Companion to African Rhetoric argues for a holistic view of rhetoric on the continent, gives an outline of what African rhetoric is, and serves as a pivotal anthology with contributions from African, Afro-Caribbean and African American rhetoricians to understanding African rhetoric.
Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem tackles the question of literary relationship between the New Testament synoptic gospels by way of rhetorical theory and criticism. Mark, Matthew, and Luke are portrayed as competing rhetorical narratives about the life of Jesus, with the Farrier-Goulder hypothesis the best working solution.
Crowdsourcing the Law engages in-depth qualitative analysis of online discussions of contemporary sexual assault cases to explore how law is interpreted and applied by everyday participants on social media.