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

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ISBN:

9789027290847

Title:

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

Author:

Johnstone, Barbara.

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 330 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

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

Contents:

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.

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Subject Term:

Discourse analysis.

Rhetoric.

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Johnstone, Barbara.

Eisenhart, Christopher.

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2008

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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.