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Bending opinion: essays on persuasion in the public domain
With communication playing an increasingly important role in contemporary society, rhetoric appears to have gained in influence and importance. The ancients knew all along: power belongs to those who know how to use their words. Nowadays, we know that rhetoric pervades all discourse. There is no communication without rhetoric. In a society with ever-increasing amounts of information, and with m…
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- 9789400600201
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- 455 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
- Series Title
- Rhetoric in society
- Call Number
- 320.014 BEN b
Contemporary rhetorical citizenship
This book presents studies from different academic fields of theoretical issues raised by public discourse, focusing on understanding and evaluating how its many manifestations both reflect, shape, and challenge the society it is a part of. The book also presents analyses of examples from around the world of civic communication, ranging from public hearings about same-sex marriage over polemica…
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- 9789087282165
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- 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- Rhetoric in society
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- 300 KOC c
Watch and learn : rhetorical devices in classroom films after 1940
Since the late 1990s, there has been a marked increase in academic interest in what are sometimes called 'utility films', intended for purposes of information, training, teaching or advertising. Although such research was long overdue, the current academic output tends to be restricted in scope, paying little attention to the films' textual features: the means they deploy in defending their inf…
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- 9789089643124
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- 372 p.
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- 791.43071 MAS w
Playing the text, performing the future : future narratives in print and digi…
This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How ´radical` can printed Future Narratives really be, given the constraints of their media? When exactly do they not only play with the mere idea of multip…
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- 9783110272390
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- IX, 237 p.
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- 808.3 MEI p
Rhetoric and drama
Proving fruitful in various applications throughout its two millennia of predominance, the rhetorical téchne appears to have entertained a particularly symbiotic interrelation with drama. With contributions from (among others) a Classicist, historical, linguistic, musicological, operatic, cultural and literary studies perspective, this publication offers interdisciplinary assessments of specif…
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- 9783110484663
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- X, 244 p.
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- 808 MAY r
Narrative concepts in the study of eighteenth-century literature
This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narratology and eighteenth-century literature. It questions whether the general concepts of narratology are as such applicable to historically specific fields, or whether they need further specification. Furthermore, at issue is the question whether the theoretical concepts actually are, despite their appe…
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- 9789048527380
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- 314p. : ill.
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- 820.9005 NAR n
Digital rhetoric : theory, method, practice
A survey of a range of disciplines whose practitioners are venturing into the new field of digital rhetoric, examining the history of the ways digital and networked technologies inhabit and shape traditional rhetorical practices as well as considering new rhetorics made possible by current technologies
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- 9780472072682
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- 163p. : ill.
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- 808.00285 EYM d
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