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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnstone, Barbara.

Eisenhart, Christopher.

Series:

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

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

viii, 330 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The eleven studies in this volume illustrate and advance the synthesis of discourse analysis with rhetorical studies. Rhetoric in Detail shows how a variety of techniques from discourse analysis can be useful in studying such concerns as agency, legitimation, controversy, and style, and how concepts from rhetoric including genre and figuration can enrich the work of discourse analysts. The authors’ research sites range from government commissions, political speeches, newspaper reports and letters to interviews and conversations in beauty salons and online. Methodological overviews interspersed throughout survey critical discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, grounded theory, computer-aided corpus analysis, narrative analysis, and participant observation and provide suggestions for further reading. Rhetoric in Detail is an invaluable source for rhetoricians looking for systematic, grounded ways of approaching new, more vernacular sites for rhetorical discourse and for discourse analysts interested in seeing what they can learn from the tradition and practice of rhetorical analysis.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Part I. Introduction

1. Discourse analysis in rhetorical studies

Part II. Style and legitimation

Studying style and legitimation: Critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis

2. Talking the (political) talk: Cold War refugees and their political legitimation through style

3. Reporting Waco: The constitutive work of bureaucratic style

4. The rhetoric of temporality: The future as linguistic construct and rhetorical resource

5. The intertextual forging of epideictic discourse: Construals of victims in the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty Hearings

Part III. Identity and agency

Studying identity and agency: CDA, interactional sociolinguistics, narrative analysis, grounded theory

6. Muted voices: Cochlear implants, news discourse, and the public fascination with curing deafness

7. "American Humor" versus "Indian Humor": Indentity, ethos, and rhetorical situation

8. Ethos and narrative in online educational chat

9. Disciplinary rhetorics, rhetorical agency, and the construction of voice

Part IV. Entextualizing controversy

Studying entextualization and controversy: CDA, participant observation, computer-aided corpus analysis

10. How a media controversy can influence a scientific publication: The case of Robert L. Spitzer’s “reparative therapy” study

11. Controversy as a media event category

12. Analyzing everyday talk about social issues

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612104435

9781282104433

1282104438

9789027290847

9027290849

OCLC:

432993220