Rhetoric in detail : discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text / edited by Barbara Johnstone, Christopher Eisenhart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnstone, Barbara.

Eisenhart, Christopher.

John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; 31.

Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 330 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, [2008]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

INTRODUCTION. Discourse analysis and rhetorical studies / Christopher Eisenhart and Barbara Johnstone.

STYLE AND LEGITIMATION. Studying style and legitimation : critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis / Sean Zdenek and Barbara Johnstone

Talking the (political) talk : Cold War refugees and their political legitimation through style / Andreea Deciu Ritivoi

Reporting Waco : the constitutive work of bureaucratic style / Christopher Eisenhart

The rhetoric of temporality : the future as linguistic construct and rhetorical resource / Patricia L. Dunmire

The intertextual forging of epideictic discourse : construals of victims in the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty Hearings / Susan Lawrence.

IDENTITY AND AGENCY. Studying identity and agency : CDA, interactional sociolinguistics, narrative analysis, grounded theory / Barbara Johnstone

Muted voices : cochlear implants, news discourse, and the public fascination with curing deafness / Sean Zdenek

"American humor" versus "Indian humor" : identity, ethos, and rhetorical situation / Neeta Bhasin

Ethos and narrative in online educational chat / Martha S. Cheng

Disciplinary rhetorics, rhetorical agency, and the construction of voice / Amanda Young.

ENTEXTUALIZING CONTROVERSY. Studying entextualization and controversy : CDA, participant observation, computer-aided corpus analysis / Barbara Johnstone

How a media controversy can influence a scientific publication : the case of Robert L. Spitzer's "reparative therapy" study / Craig O. Stewart

Controversy as a media event category / Peter A. Cramer

Analyzing everyday talk about social issues / Susan Gilpin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027290847

9027290849

Publisher Number:

99986558327

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