by
Johnstone, Barbara.
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492.70141 20
Publication Date
1991
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In this examination of expository prose in contemporary Arabic, structural and semantic repetition is found to be responsible both for linguistic cohesion and for rhetorical force. Johnstone identifies and discusses repetitive features on every level of analysis. Writers in Arabic use lexical couplets consisting of conjoined synonyms, which create new semantic paradigms as they evoke old ones. Morphological roots and patterns are repeated at close range, and this creates phonological rhyme as well. Regular patterns of paraphrase punctuate texts, and patterns of parallelism mark the internal st.
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Johnstone, Barbara.
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401.41
Publication Date
2008
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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.
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Nagle, Stephen J., 1948-
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427.975 22
Publication Date
2003
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This volume, written by a team of experts, many of them internationally known, provides a broad overview of the foundations of and current research on language variation in the southern United States. Central themes, issues and topics of scholarly investigation and debate figure prominently throughout the volume.
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Johnson, Rucker C.
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362.55610973 22
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2010
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Bamberg, Michael G. W., 1947-
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401.41 22
Publication Date
2007
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Narrative - State of the Art which was originally published as a Special Issue of Narrative Inquiry 16:1 (2006) is edited by Michael Bamberg and contains 24 chapters (with a brief introduction by the editor) that look back and take stock of developments in narrative theorizing and empirical work with narratives. The attempt has been made to bring together researchers from different disciplines, with very different concerns, and have them express their conceptions of the current state of the art from their perspectives. Looking back and taking stock, this volume further attempts to begin to del.
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Watson, Lemuel W. (Lemuel Warren), editor.
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306.766 23
Publication Date
2013
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Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915.
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287.06092
Publication Date
2012
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Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) was one of America's earliest black activists and social reformers. This book recovers a lost voice within American and African American rhetorical history.
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