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Rhetoric in detail : discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnstone, Barbara, Eisenhart, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©2008.
Colección:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 31.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Discourse analysis and rhetorical studies / Christopher Eisenhart and Barbara Johnstone
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.