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Communication Criticism : Developing Your Critical Powers.

This book demonstrates how an understanding of the fundamental principles of communication will help in evaluating the effects, effectiveness, truthfulness, and ethics of every kind of communication from traditional "soapbox speeches" to reading a magazine, talking to a friend, watching co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohen, Jodi R. R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1998.
Colección:Rhetoric and society series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The need to think critically about communication
  • How to think critically about communication
  • Language as style
  • Language as sign systems
  • Language as metaphor
  • Structure as organization
  • Structure as editing images
  • Structure as narrative
  • Structure as drama
  • Reasoning as rhetorical argument
  • Reasoning as field dependent-argument
  • Reasoning as narrative
  • Character as ethos.
  • Character as the second persona
  • Character as identification
  • Emotion as pathos
  • Emotion as desire
  • Critical powers over who we are, what we know, and what we do.