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Book SynopsisThe only collection of readings on the philosophy of the body. Challenges the reader to look at the development of a phenomenological theory of the body by such thinkers as Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Designed for use in courses on theory of gender and identity.Trade Review"Finally, those of us who teach courses on continental theories of the body will be able to say goodbye to homemade readers! This beautifully organized and indispensable anthology puts it all together for us: well-chosen selections from the foundational twentieth-century texts and clarifying contemporary commentary. An invaluable contribution for teachers, students, and scholars." Susan Bordo, Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, University of KentuckyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Foundations of a Theory of the Body 1 Part I Phenomenological Formulations 9 Edmund Husserl 11 1 Material Things in Their Relation to the Aesthetic Body 11 The Constitution of Psychic Reality Through the Body 23 Edmund Husserl 2 Soft, Smooth Hands: Husserl’s Phenomenology of the Lived-Body 38 Donn Welton 3 The Zero-Point of Orientation: The Placement of the I in Perceived Space 57 Elmar Holenstein Martin Heidegger 95 4 Introduction to Being and Time 95 Equipment, Action, and the World 97 Dasein as Affective Responsiveness and as Understanding 103 Seeing and Sight 103 Hearing, Discourse, and the Call of Care 110 Hands 111 On Hearing the Logos 115 Martin Heidegger 5 The Ontological Dimension of Embodiment: Heidegger’s Thinking of Being 122 David Michael Levin Maurice Merleau-Ponty 150 6 Situating the Body 150 The Lived Body 154 The Body in Its Sexual Being 158 The Natural World and the Body 166 Maurice Merleau–Ponty 7 Saturated Intentionality 178 Anthony J. Steinbock 8 Flesh and Blood: A Proposed Supplement to Merleau–Ponty 200 Drew Leder Part II Psycho- and Sociotropic Genealogical Analyses 211 Jacques Lacan 213 9 Towards a Genetic Theory of the Ego 213 The See-saw of Desire 218 The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Body 221 Anamorphosis 223 Jacques Lacan 10 The Status and Significance of the Body in Lacan’s Imaginary and Symbolic Orders 232 Charles W Bonner Michel Foucault: 252 11 Discipline and Punish 252 The History of Sexuality 269 Michel Foucalt 12 The Subjectification of the Body 286 Alphonso Lingis 13 Foucault and the Paradox of Bodily Inscriptions 307 Judith Butler Part III Towards a Semiotics of the Gendered Body 315 Julia Kristeva 317 14 Subject and Body 317 On the Meaning of Drives 325 Julia Kristeva 15 The Flesh Become Word: The Body in Kristeva’s Theory 341 Kelly Oliver Luce Irigaray 353 16 Female Desire 353 Luce Irigaray 17 Beyond Sex and Gender: On Luce Irigaray’s This Sex Which Is Not One 361 Tina Chanter

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Book SynopsisThoughts and Utterances is the first sustained investigation of two distinctions which are fundamental to all theories of utterance understanding: the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly communicated and what is implicitly communicated. Features the first sustained investigation of both the semantics/pragmatics distinction and the distinction between what is explicitly and implicitly communicated in speech. Trade Review"This book serves to advance the status of pragmatics, as in addition to presenting a theory free from serious errors, it is also a good example of a methodologically sound book. I heavily applaud this volume - which places students on the right path and is also a rare example of scholarly eminence. I believe the author must have had many sleepless nights to finish it - now she can take her rest and enjoy the success and the praise she fully deserves." Linguistics "Challenges current philosophical approaches to pragmatics and makes a substantial contribution to cognitive pragmatic theories such as relevance theory." Moderna Sprak "The book brings together a wealth of empirical observations and new analyses and is impressive in breadth and depth. It is also one of the most detailed and powerful expositions of relevance theory and enriches the framework in considerable ways." Lingua"This long-awaited treatise is the best case ever made for relevance theory, and a most stimulating piece of work on the semantics/pragmatics interface. I enjoyed it enormously." François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod "You don’t have to be a relevance theorist to appreciate Carston’s challenge to influential Gricean views on the interaction of pragmatics with semantics. This book, with its breadth of coverage and depth of analysis, raises a good many questions and offers many good answers." Kent Bach, San Francisco State University "Robyn Carston’s combination of meticulous scholarship with deep insight has led her to cast new light on the vexed distinction between semantics and pragmatics, to provide new analyses of a range of problems in linguistics and the philosophy of language, and to illuminate the relation between language and thought more generally. This elegantly written and original work is the best book on pragmatics for a generation." Neil Smith, University College London "The author directly tackles the by now central issue of the interface between semantics and pragmatics... and addresses such important theoretical problems, within all of pragmatics, as the distinction betwen explicit and implicit communication." Pragmatics "As is usual with excellent books, Carston's book leads us to think further deeply and raises a good many questions... this book takes a resolutely cognitive viewpoint, sheds a new light on the semantics/pragmatics interaction and succeeds in elucidating the roles of language and inferences in communication. i strongly recommend this book not only to pragmatists, of course, but also to everyone who is interested in human communication." Akiko Yoshimura, Nara Women's University, Studies in English LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Pragmatics and Linguistic Underdeterminacy 15 1.1 Saying and Meaning 15 1.2 The Underdeterminacy Thesis 19 1.2.1 Sources of linguistic underdeterminacy 21 1.2.2 Underdeterminacy: essential or merely convenient? 28 1.3 Eternal Sentences and Effability 30 1.3.1 Eternal sentences and Platonism 31 1.3.2 Effability principles 32 1.3.3 Eternal reference? 37 1.3.4 Eternal predication? 39 1.4 Metarepresentation, Relevance and Pragmatic Inference 42 1.4.1 Mind-reading and ostension 42 1.4.2 Relevance and utterance understanding 44 1.5 Underdeterminacy, Truth Conditions and the Semantics/ Pragmatics Distinction 48 1.5.1 A truth-conditional semantics for natural language? 50 1.5.2 A translational semantics for natural language? 56 1.6 Radical Underdeterminacy and the Background 64 1.6.1 The Background 64 1.6.2 Radical underdeterminacy and ‘expressibility’ 69 1.6.3 Radical underdeterminacy and semantic compositionality 70 1.7 Underdeterminacy of Thought? 74 1.7.1 Mentalese, pragmatics and compositional semantics 74 1.7.2 Mental indexicals and the mind–world connection 78 1.8 Summary 83 Notes 83 2 The Explicit/Implicit Distinction 94 2.1 Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction 95 2.1.1 Truth-conditional semantics and formal pragmatics 95 2.1.2 Semantic/pragmatic circles 96 2.2 Grice: Saying/Implicating 101 2.2.1 Odd statements but true 101 2.2.2 Contextual contributions to ‘what is said’ 105 2.2.3 Implicature: conventional and conversational 107 2.2.4 Saying, meaning and ‘making as if to say’ 114 2.3 Sperber and Wilson: Relevance-theoretic Distinctions 116 2.3.1 Explicature 116 2.3.2 Multiple speech acts and multiple logical forms 125 2.3.3 Implicature 134 2.3.4 Deriving explicatures and implicatures 142 2.3.5 Subsentential utterances, saying and explicating 152 2.3.6 Explicature and non-literalness 157 2.3.7 Blakemore: the conceptual/procedural distinction 160 2.4 Travis and Recanati: Enriched ‘What is Said’ 164 2.4.1 Contextualist saying 164 2.4.2 Availability to intuitions 166 2.5 Bach: What is Said/Impliciture/Implicature 170 2.5.1 Impliciture vs. explicature 170 2.5.2 What is said and linguistic meaning 171 2.5.3 What is said and indexicality 177 2.5.4 What’s to be said about ‘what is said’? 182 2.6 Pragmatic Meaning: Enrichment or Implicature? 183 2.6.1 Minimalist principles 185 2.6.2 Functional independence 189 2.6.3 Embedding tests 191 2.7 Postscript: Hidden Indexicals or ‘Free’ Enrichment? 197 2.8 Conclusion: From Generative Semantics to Pro-active Pragmatics 205 Notes 206 3 The Pragmatics of ‘And’-Conjunction 222 3.1 Preserving the Truth-functionality of ‘And’ 222 3.2 A Relevance-based Pragmatics of Conjunction 226 3.2.1 Cognitive scripts and accessibility 226 3.2.2 Enrichment or implicature? 227 3.3 The Semantic Alternatives 228 3.4 Cognitive Fundamentals: Causality and Explanation 235 3.5 Relevance Relations and Units of Processing 242 3.5.1 The conjunction unit 242 3.5.2 Elaboration relations 246 3.6 Processing Effort and Iconicity 250 3.7 Residual Issues 253 3.7.1 Pragmatic enrichment or unrepresented Background? 253 3.7.2 The semantics of ‘and’ and the logic of ‘and’ 254 3.8 Conclusion: From Generalized Conversational Implicature to Propositional Enrichment 257 Notes 258 4 The Pragmatics of Negation 265 4.1 Some Data and Some Distinctions 266 4.1.1 The scope distinction 266 4.1.2 The representational distinction 267 4.2 Semantic Ambiguity Analyses 271 4.2.1 Lexical ambiguity and/or scope ambiguity? 271 4.2.2 Arguments against ambiguity 273 4.3 Strong Pragmatic Analyses 278 4.3.1 Analyses in the Gricean spirit 278 4.3.2 Grice: structural ambiguity and implicature 281 4.3.3 Sense-generality and implicature 284 4.3.4 Pragmatic narrowing of negation 288 4.4 ‘Presupposition’-cancelling Negation and Metalinguistic Negation 291 4.4.1 Semantic presupposition and negation 291 4.4.2 Metalinguistic negation 294 4.4.3 Negation and echoic use 296 4.4.4 Truth-functional negation and metarepresentational enrichment 298 4.5 The Pragmatics of ‘Presupposition’-denial 302 4.5.1 ‘Presupposition’-denial and contradiction 303 4.5.2 Negation and two kinds of pragmatic enrichment 306 4.6 Conclusion: From Multiple Semantic Ambiguity to Univocal Semantics and Pragmatic Enrichment 311 Notes 312 5 The Pragmatics of On-line Concept Construction 320 5.1 Encoded Concepts and Communicated Concepts 321 5.1.1 Ad hoc concepts via narrowing 323 5.1.2 The problem of concept broadening 328 5.2 A Symmetrical Account of Narrowing and Broadening 334 5.2.1 Consequences of the unified account 337 5.2.2 Arguments for the unified account 343 5.3 Metaphor: Loose Use and Ad Hoc Concepts 349 5.3.1 Where does metaphorical meaning come from? 349 5.3.2 Ad hoc concepts, explicature and indeterminacy 357 5.4 Word Meaning and Concepts 359 5.5 Conclusion: The Long Road from Linguistically Encoded Meaning to the Thought(s) Explicitly Communicated 364 Notes 367 Appendix 1: Relevance Theory Glossary 376 Appendix 2: Gricean Conversational Principles 382 References 384 Index 408

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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of papers that have helped shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics. It covers key central themes and includes an editorial introduction and extensive references. This should be a useful resource for students and scholars of semantics and the philosophy of language.Trade Review"This volume contains a well-balanced selection of great papers covering fifteen vibrant years of semantic research. My own definition of a classic paper is a paper that is endlessly borrowed by students, but rarely returned. The papers in this volume all share the property that somewhere in the world somebody owns my copy of them. It's great to find them all collected here." Fred Landman, Tel Aviv University "Truth-conditional semantics has its roots in the work of Frege and analytic philosophy, which was designed to overcome the vagueness, ambiguities, and dubious ontological commitments of natural language. Curiously, this intellectual tradition provided the very foundation for the serious study of meaning in natural language. This collection of seminal articles bears witness to this astonishing development; it should be essential reading for linguists and philosophers who are seriously interested in linguistic meaning." Manfred Krifka, Humboldt UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction (Paul Portner and Barbara Partee). 1. The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English (Richard Montague). 2. A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural (Greg Carlson). 3. Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language (Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper). 4. The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms (Godehard Link). 5. Assertion (Robert C. Stalnaker). 6. Scorekeeping in a Language Game (David Lewis). 7. Adverbs of Quantification (David Lewis). 8. A Theory of Truth and Semantic Representation (Hans Kamp). 9. File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness (Irene Heim). 10. On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions (Irene Heim). 11. Toward a Semantic Analysis of Verb Aspect and the English 'Imperfective' Progressive (David R. Dowty). 12. The National Category of Modality (Angelika Kratzer). 13. The Algebra of Events (Emmon Bach). 14. Generalized Conjunction and Type Ambiguity (Barbara Partee and Mats Rooth). 15. Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type Shifting Principles (Barbara H. Partee). 16. Syntax and Semantics of Questions (Lauri Karttunen). 17. Type-Shifting Rules and the Semantics of Interrogatives (Jeroen Groenendijk and Martin Stokhof). 18. On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-Polarity Items (William A. Ladusaw). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis text brings together some of the most significant contemporary philosophical work on linguistic representation and understanding, providing an introduction to core questions in the philosophy of language. Topics discussed include analyticity and translational indeterminacy.Trade Review"This book covers a wide range of core topics in philosophy of language and strikes a nice balance between classic papers and more recent work. The collection will form the basis for an excellent course on philosophy of language." --Stephen Laurence, University of Sheffield "Meaning takes the reader through many of the most crucial developments in the study of meaning from Frege through to the present day; this book will certainly prove an invaluable resource for both students and professionals." --Emma Borg, University of Reading "This is an excellent collection on meaning, blending classics with insightful recent contributions." --Michael Devitt, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Conceptions of Meaning (Mark Richard). 1. 'On Sense and Reference' (Gottlob Frege). 2. From Naming and Necessity (Saul Kripke). 3. 'Meaning and Reference' (Hilary Putnam). 4. 'Predicate Meets Property' (Mark Wilson). 5. From Meaning (Paul Horwich). 6. From 'Ontological Relativity' (W. V. O. Quine). 7. From 'The Indeterminancy of Translation and the Inscrutability of Reference' (Scott Soames). 8. 'Individuation, Causal Relations, and Quine' (Jody Azzouni). 9. 'Radical Interpretation' (Donald Davidson). 10. 'Semantics and Semantic Competence' (Scott Soames). 11. 'Truth and Understanding' (James Higginbotham). 12. From 'Indexicals and Demonstratives' (John Perry). 13. Two Dogmas of Empiricism (W.V.O. Quine). 14. Armchair Metaphysics. Mind, Method, & Conditionals (Frank Jackson). Index.

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Book SynopsisDionysius of Halicarnassus, born c. 60 BCE, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary language of the Mediterranean world. They constitute an important development from the somewhat mechanical techniques of rhetorical handbooks to more sensitive criticism of individual authors.

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Book SynopsisAboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to oTrade Review"This is an important and far-reaching book that philosophers will be discussing for a long time. There are doctoral dissertations, articles, and books to write exploring the possibilities and limitations of [Yablo's] approach."--Adam Morton, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface vii How to Read This Book xi Introduction 1 1 I Wasn't Talking about That 7 2 Varieties of Aboutness 23 3 Inclusion in Metaphysics and Semantics 45 4 A Semantic Conception of Truthmaking 54 5 The Truth and Something But the Truth 77 6 Confirmation and Verisimilitude 95 7 Knowing That and Knowing About 112 8 Extrapolation and Its Limits 131 9 Going On in the Same Way 142 10 Pretense and Presupposition 165 11 The Missing Premise 178 12 What Is Said 189 Appendix. Nomenclature 207 Bibliography 209 Index 219

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Book SynopsisThe tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of tTrade Review"This is an outstanding book, probably the best philosophy book I have read this year... The book will not only be of great importance to professional philosophers and linguists but it will also be an accessible and invaluable asset to students."--Anthony Everett, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Derived from three lectures at Soochow University, Taipei, this book retains the relatively informal style that must have made those lectures both enjoyable and highly informative."--Choice "Soames's excellent book will drive research on this important topic for some time to come."--Brian Ball, Canadian Journal of Philosophy "Scott Soames' new book, What Is Meaning?, is an important book, both in the issues it raises and in its shortcomings. It is the first serious discussion of meaning (not 'semantic content' or some other term designed to sidestep the real issue) by a leading analytic philosopher of language in a long while, and its findings lead to a more realistic understanding of meaning and language."--Sergeiy Sandler, European LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chapter 1: Meanings 1 Chapter 2: Frege and Russell: The Real Problem of "the Unity of the Proposition" 11 Chapter 3: Why Truth Conditions Are Not Enough 33 Chapter 4: Propositions and Attitudes: Davidson's Challenge and Russell's Neglected Insight 49 Chapter 5: Toward a Theory of Propositions: A Deflationary Account 69 Chapter 6: The Cognitive-Realist Theory of Propositions 99 Chapter 7: Expanding the Cognitive-Realist Model 109 Index 131

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNamed a Harvard University Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for 2014 "[This] is a wonderfully rich volume that makes punctual yet decisive incursions leading to brilliant new readings of canonical texts... Through the cornucopia of its corpus and the generosity of its gesture, Security is above all an invitation to think along, to think further and deeper, to pursue the project of the book on a yet wider corpus. It invites us to practice the philology of care in our approach to books but also to the world."--Hall Bjornstad, L'Esprit Createur "[A] masterful meditation."--Ellwood Wiggins, Modern Language QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Part One: Preliminary Concerns 1 1. Homo Curans 3 2. Security Studies and Philology 7 3. Handle with Care 25 Part Two: Etymologies and Figures 49 4. A Brief Semantic History of Securitas 51 5. The Pasture and the Garden 68 6. Security on the Beach 83 7. Tranquillity, Anger, and Caution 114 Part Three: Occupying Security 135 8. Fortitude and Maternal Care 137 9. Embarkations 168 10. Lingua Homini Lupus 182 11. Repercussions 201 12. Revolution's Chances 224 13. Vital Instabilities 238 14. The Sorrow of Thinking 262 15. Surveillance, Conspiracy, and the Nanny State 284 On the Main 299 Works Cited 301 Index 317

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Book SynopsisNovels affirm the power of fiction to portray the horizons of knowledge and to dramatize the ways that the truths of human existence are created and preserved. Professor Saldivar shows that deconstructive readings of novels remind us that we do not apprehend the world directly but through interpretive codes. Originally published in 1984. The PrinTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Table of Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. xi*Chapter One. Rhetoric and the Figures of Form: Peirce, Nietzsche, and the Novel, pg. 1*Chapter Two. In Quest of Authority: Cervantes, Don Quijote, and the Grammar of Proper Language, pg. 25*Chapter Three. The Rhetoric of Desire: Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir, pg. 72*Chapter Four. The Apotheosis of Subjectivity: Performative and Constative in Melville's Moby-Dick, pg. 110*Chapter Five. Reading the Letter of the Law: Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, pg. 156*Chapter Six. The Flowers of Speech: James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, pg. 182*Afterword, pg. 249*Index, pg. 259

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Book SynopsisThe edition includes "Christian Discourses," "The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air" and "Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays." Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of PrincetonTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. v*CONTENTS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION: ABOUT THE YEAR 1848, pg. xi*CHRISTIAN DISCOURSES, pg. 1*THE LILIES OF THE FIELD AND THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, pg. 311*THREE DISCOURSES AT THE COMMUNION ON FRIDAYS, pg. 357*INDEX, pg. 387

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the nationalist and populist themes that dominate the rhetoric of President Trump and links those themes to a persona that has evolved from celebrity outsider to presidential strongman. This is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how Trump's rhetoric undermines basic principles at the heart of American democracy.Trade ReviewThe author provides a refreshingly clear-eyed, deeply-informed, and rigorously argued examination of the phenomenon that is Donald Trump. Rowland is especially helpful in exploring the relationship between the particulars of Trump's language practices and their more general implications for populism, democracy, and the American presidency. This is a work of singular achievement." - Stephen Howard Browne, professor of communication arts and sciences, Pennsylvania State University, and author of The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic"Of some eighty studies of Trump's rhetoric that have appeared between 2015 and 2020, Robert Rowland's book The Rhetoric of Donald Trump: Nationalist Populism and American Democracy is the best. Rowland develops a theoretical framework that explains Trump's rhetoric and why it is effective. In so doing, he extends rhetorical theories of both affect and genre. As he notes, treating Trump's rhetoric as an expression of an affective genre is not only important for explaining Trump's success but also for illuminating the rise of nationalist populism in Europe and for suggesting important ways of extending genre criticism beyond a narrow situational approach. That Rowland is one of the leading theorists of genre studies gives his theoretical argument added power." - David A. Frank, professor of rhetoric, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon"The Rhetoric of Donald Trump takes the reader on an in-depth analysis of Trump's communication-from his campaign oratory to his presidential speeches and from his tweets to his COVID-19 briefings. Throughout this excellent book, Robert C. Rowland incisively demonstrates how Trump's unforgiving nationalism, populist attacks on elites, and violation of rhetorical norms, in tandem with the persona of a celebrity outsider that has evolved into that of an authoritarian leader, have forged a bond of identity with his followers that persists. Rowland also points to the grave dangers that Trump's rhetoric pose to American democracy." - Denise M. Bostdorff, author of The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis and Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms"In this important and carefully researched volume, Professor Robert C. Rowland examines and critiques Donald Trump's strategic exploitation of some of the darkest and most divisive elements of American populist and anti-immigrant sentiments. Rowland provides a strong warning of the dangers posed to the vitality of our democracy and our most important institutions by this rhetoric. Trump and Trumpism have sadly captured the hearts and minds of the Republican Party and its most devoted followers, and this book explains why this style of discourse may persist for years to come." - Thomas A. Hollihan, professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, and author of Uncivil Wars: Political Campaigns in a Media Age

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Book SynopsisThe core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered by Habermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title a Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociologya .Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction vii Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology: The Christian Gauss Lecture (Princeton University, February-March 1971) 1 I Objectivist and Subjectivist Approaches to Theory Formation in the Social Sciences 3 II The Phenomenological Constitutive Theory of Society: The Fundamental Role of Claims to Validity and the Monadological Foundations of Intersubjectivity 23 III From a Constitutive Theory to a Communicative Theory of Society (Sellars and Wittgenstein): Communicative and Cognitive Uses of Language 45 IV Universal Pragmatics: Reflections on a Theory of Communicative Competence 67 V Truth and Society: The Discursive Redemption of Factual Claims to Validity 85 Intentions, Conventions, and Linguistic Interactions (1976) 105 Reflections on Communicative Pathology (1974) 129 Notes 171 Index 183

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Book SynopsisHow can we study organizations from a discursive perspective? What are the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of each perspective on organizational discourse? To what extent do discourse and communication constitute the organizational world? This accessible book addresses these questions by showing how classical organizational themes, objects and questions can be illuminated from various discursive perspectives.Six approaches are presented and explained: semiotics, rhetoric, speech act theory, conversation analysis/ethnomethodology, narrative analysis, and critical discourse analysis. These six perspectives are then mobilized throughout the book to study coordination and organizing, organizational culture and identity, as well as negotiation, decision making and conflicts in the context of meetings.The unifying thread of this volume is the communicative constitutive approach (CCO) to organizations, as implicitly or explicitly advocated by the great majTrade Review Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Textbook Award from The Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association An essential, high-impact resource for all organizational discourse scholars. Cooren offers a definitive field guide illustrating how discourse and CCO researchers move from concept to data analysis to theory building. Cooren enables readers to �see� how the pieces of discourse research fit together to produce significant results. James Barker, Dalhousie University For students of language, communication, and organizations, François Cooren has written a terrific introduction to organizational discourse analysis. His review of six discourse approaches is bolstered by his extensive research in the field and his goal to help readers understand the organizing potential of language. This organizing potential is key to knowing how organizations are communicatively constituted. The writing in this book is clear, accessible, and inviting. I highly recommend it! Gail Fairhurst, University of Cincinnati This volume provides a superb integration of six discourse perspectives interwoven with the thread communication constitutes organization. It not only explicates these approaches but also employs each of them in exemplars of enacting coorientation and organizing, performing identity and culture, and negotiating decisions. Overall, it is an ideal text for teaching organizational discourse analysis. Linda L. Putnam, University of California, Santa Barbara François Cooren�s new book, Organizational Discourse, is a clear, well informed, sensitive account of varied discursive approaches and topics in organizational studies. � Cooren is very skilled and systematic about explaining technical terms and assumptions lucidly and with sustained examples. ... while the book�s special focus on discursive issues makes it most valuable as a text for courses concentrating on organizational discourse/communication issues, its breadth makes it a real option as a textbook, or a half-term text, in more generalized organizational behavior and communication classes.M@n@gement Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1 What is (organizational) discourse? How is this book organized?2 Analyzing organizational discourse: Six perspectives3 Coordination and organizing4 Organizational culture, identity and ideology5 Meetings: Negotiation, decision making and conflicts6 By way of a conclusionEndnotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of traditional conceptions of the liberal arts, exploring the challenges posed by cultural diversity to the aims and methods of a humanist education. Janet M. Atwill investigates a neglected tradition of rhetoric, exemplified by Protagoras and Isocorates, and preserved in Aristotle''s Rhetoric.This tradition was rooted in the ancient sophistic and platonic conceptions of techné, or productive knowledge, that appears both in literary texts from the seventh century B.C.E. and in medical and technical treatises from the fifth century B.C.E. Atwill examines these traditions, together with sophistic and platonic conceptions, and considers the commentaries on Aristotle''s Rhetoric by E. M. Cope and William S. J. Grimaldi, where the concepts of techné and productive knowledge disappear in the modern opposition between theory and practice.Since models of knowledge are closely tiedTrade ReviewIn Rhetoric Reclaimed, Janet Atwill offers a new framework for understanding the history of Western rhetoric and a reinterpretation of Aristotle's place within that history.... She has done much to illuminate the competing forms of knowledge and subjectivity inscribed in the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and has recovered a lost or under-appreciated dimension of these texts. In so doing, Rhetoric Reclaimed... also suggests a starting point for reassessing and renegotiating the priorities and values we have inherited from the rhetorical tradition. * Rhetorik *The publication of Janet Atwill's Rhetoric Reclaimed has served to powerfully recuperate and supplement an important conversation among the Greek sophists, one in which the notion of techné emerged not only as a rhetorical strategy, but also as a way of being and as an attitude about knowledge.... The importance of Atwill's book lies in its suggestion that attention to téchne can enlarge our understanding of rhetoric in general and the theorizing and teaching of cooperative approaches to writing in particular. * Journal of Advanced Composition *

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Book SynopsisOffering both the first major revision of satiric rhetoric in decades and a critical account of the modern history of satire criticism, Fredric V. Bogel maintains that the central structure of the satiric mode has been misunderstood. Devoting...Trade ReviewSome part of Bogel's survey of satire from Jonson to Byron will be of interest to regular BHR readers and the entire book will delight and inform the Renaissance scholars who wish to see their specialty in perspective. * Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance *This study advances the reader's understanding of satire by providing a critical account of its history among modern critics.... Bogel's book is remarkably inventive and challenging; it raises the bar of understanding of Augustan satire in particular, and more generally of satire as a literary category. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato''s Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a precise yet unusually readable translation of one of the great Platonic dialogues on rhetoric.The Gorgias presents an intransigent argument that justice is superior to injustice—to the extent that suffering an injustice is preferable to committing an unjust act. The dialogue contains some of Plato''s most significant and famous discussions of major political themes, and focuses dramatically and with unrivaled intensity on Socrates as a political thinker and actor.Nichols''s attention to dramatic detail brings this dialogue to life. Plato''s striking variety in conversational address (names and various terms of relative warmth and coolness) is carefully reproduced, as is alteration in tone and implication even in the short responses. The translatioTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and PoliticsGORGIASThe Rhetoric of Justice in Plato's Gorgias

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Book SynopsisWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato''s Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a precise yet unusually readable translation of one of the great Platonic dialogues on rhetoric. Featuring some of Plato''s most soaringly lyrical passages, the Phaedrus investigates the soul''s erotic longing and its relationship to the whole cosmos, as well as inquiring into the nature of rhetoric and the problem of writing.Nichols''s attention to dramatic detail brings this dialogue to life. Plato''s striking variety in conversational address (names and various terms of relative warmth and coolness) is carefully reproduced, as is alteration in tone and implication even in the short responses. The translation renders references to the gods accurately and non-monotheistically for the first time, and includes a fascinating variety of oaths and invocations. Nichols believes that Plato''s th

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains new translations of two dialogues of Plato, the Protagoras and the Meno, together with explanatory notes and substantial interpretive essays. Robert C. Bartlett''s translations are as literal as is compatible with sound English style and take into account important textual variations. Because the interpretive essays both sketch the general outlines of the dialogues and take up specific theoretical or philosophic difficulties, they will be of interest not only to those reading the dialogues for the first time but also to those already familiar with them.The Protagoras and the Meno are linked by the attention each pays to the idea of virtue: the latter dialogue focuses on the fundamental Socratic question, What is virtue?; the former on the specific virtue of courage, especially in its relation to wisdom. An appendix contains a short extract from Xenophon''s Anabasis of Cyrus that vividly portrays the figure of Meno.Trade Review"The overall value of Bartlett's translation is very high. The footnotes are extraordinarily helpful; the prose is clear and readable; and the interpretive essays will surely prove to be an excellent source of classroom discussion. This volume is a welcome addition to Plato scholarship."—Edward Moore, St. Elias School of Orthodox Theology, Philosophy in Review, Vol. 24, No. 4-6, Aug-Dec 2004"Robert C. Bartlett's translations of Protagoras and Meno display a degree of accuracy and literalness that makes them most suitable for scholarly and teaching purposes. The consistency with which Bartlett has translated terms enables the reader to confidently develop an interpretation of Plato's meaning as the terms recur in the dialogues. His notes and introductory essays are thoughtful, learned, and well-designed guides to assist the reader toward a serious confrontation with the philosophic issues dealt with in the texts. They raise questions, sketch lines of interpretation, and guide one toward one's own thinking rather than declaring the definitive interpretation or examining the questions exhaustively, which makes them ideal for classroom use."—James H. Nichols, Claremont McKenna CollegeTable of ContentsPrefacePROTAGORASOn the ProtagorasMENOOn the MenoAppendix: Xenophon's Assessment of Meno (Anabasis of Cyrus 2.6.21-27)

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Book SynopsisFor the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a story—whatever the medium.Trade ReviewAn important American contribution to the study of narrative theory. * Choice *What I appreciate most in Chatman's study are the problem-solving activities and ambitions: again and again, he proves capable of defining areas to investigate (the borders between narrative and other temporal genres, for example, the typography of plots, the distinctive features of foregrounding and backgrounding) and of discussing narrative in terms of problems and solutions. When I opened the Chatman volume, I read the blurb first: 'A judicious and well-informed book, Story and Discourse should become the standard guide to narrative and to modern thinking about narrative.' The blurb is right. -- Gerald Prince * MLN *Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction Narrative and Poetics Elements of a Narrative Theory Is Narrative a Semiotic Structure? Manifestation and Physical Object Narrative Inference, Selection, and Coherence A Sketch of Narrative Structure A Comic Strip Example "Reading" and "Reading Out"2. Story: Events Sequence, Contingency, Causality Verisimilitude and Motivation Kernels and Satellites Stories and Antistories Suspense and Surprise Time and Plot Order, Duration, and Frequency How Time Distinctions Are Manifested Narrative Macrostructure and the Typology of Plot3. Story: Existents Story-Space and Discourse-Space Story-Space in Cinematic Narrative Story-Space in Verbal Narrative Story-Existents: Character Aristotle's Theory of Character Formalist and Structuralist Conceptions of Character Todorov and Barthes on Character Are Characters Open or Closed Constructs? Toward an Open Theory of Character Character: A Paradigm of Traits Kinds of Character A. C. Bradley and the Analysis of Character Setting4. Discourse: Nonnarrated Stories Real Author, Implied Author, Narrator, Real Reader, Implied Reader, Naratee Point of View and Its Relation to Narrative Voice Point of View in Film Narrators' and Characters' Speech Acts "Nonnarrated" Representation in General Nonnarrated Types: Written Records Pure Speech Records Soliloquy Records of Thought: Direct Free Style = Interior Monologue Stream of Consciousness = Free Association Interior Monologue in the Cinema5. Discourse: Covert versus Overt Narrators Covert Narrators Presupposition Indirect Tagged and Free Style The Manipulation of Sentences for Narrative Purposes: Presupposition as an Example Limitation of Authority in Narrative Transmission Shifting Limited versus Omniscient Mental Access Overt Narration: Set Descriptions Overt Narration: Temporal Summaries Reports of What Characters Did Not Think or Say Ethos and Commentary Commentary Implicit Commentary: Ironic Narrator and Unreliable Narrator Commentary and the Story: Interpretation Commentary and the Story: Judgment Commentary and the Story: Generalization Commentary on the Discourse The NarrateeConclusionAppendix: Diagram of Narrative StructureIndexes: Author and Title, Subject

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Book SynopsisIn Symbolism and Interpretation, Tzvetan Todorov examines two aspects of discourse: its production, which has traditionally been the domain of rhetoric, and its reception, which has always been the object of hermeneutics.Trade Review"With his habitual clarity of exposition and grasp of ideas, Todorov here reviews rhetorical theories of linguistic symbolism and the various models proposed for its interpretation from Aristotle to Hirsch. His conclusions not only are judicious but also promise to be a healthy influence in the age of post-Derridean reconstruction."—Virginia Quarterly Review"Like Todorov's other books, this one is filled with brilliant critical insights and immense learning. Todorov has the gift to deal with large concepts of a very complex order in lucid and direct terms. It is astonishing to see with what ease Todorov wanders across a variety of disciplines and many centuries—from Greek antiquity to the present age—in the course of elucidating his theories on poetics and interpretation."—Melvin J. Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Book SynopsisIs it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? Arguing against the common view that it is, this work sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by means than by precept, all aspects of discourse.Trade Review[An] important and challenging book... Cole's re-seeing of the evidence is compelling and provocative. Certainly it willbe of great interest to serious students of rhetoric, Greek prose, indeed, of ancient literature. Classical World One of the most intelligent and illuminating books on early prose literature. Journal of Hellenic Studies Cole's book is a welcome addition to the field of classical rhetorical studies... It is a good example of erudite scholarship. Quarterly Journal of Speech Provocative... The evidence Cole assembles is as interesting as his thesis. Philosophy and RhetoricTable of ContentsPrefaceBibliographical NoteChapter 1. Rhetoric, Neorhetoric, ProtorhetoricPart I. The Prerhetorical AgeChapter 2. Oral Poetry and Oral EloquenceChapter 3. Tact and EtiquetteChapter 4. Allegory and RhetoricPart II. The Late Fifth CenturyChapter 5. Techne and TextChapter 6. The Range and Limits of TechnePart III. The Fourth CenturyChapter 7. Rhetoric and ProseChapter 8. Rhetoric and PhilosophyNotesGeneral IndexIndex of Passages Cited

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Book SynopsisEighteenth-century Italian playwright Pietro Chiari designated the age he lived in ''The Century of Women'' - an age when women gained considerable power through education and admission to various academic positions and professions. Structured as an extended disputation, this book tells the tale of five paradigmatic and ideologically divergent eighteenth-century Italian texts by male and female authors whose leitmotif is woman. These include an academic debate, a scientific tract, an oration, an Enlightenment journal, and a fashion magazine. Analysis focuses on the specific ways in which the exigencies of the ''new science'' and the burgeoning Enlightenment project founded on rational civil law, secular moral philosophy, and utilitarian social ethics forced a transformation in the formal controversy about women.By uncovering the characteristics of the expansive dominant discourse about women among Italian Enlightenment thinkers and of the counter-discourse women authors produ

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Book SynopsisThese 2 essays demonstrate that, beyond example's rich genealogy in the rhetorical tradition, it involves issues that are central to current theories of meaning and ethics in literature and philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction Alexander Gelley 1. Take the Bible for example Daniel Boyarin 2. Example versus Historia Stephen G. Nichols 3. Circe's drink and sorbonnic wine John D. Lyons 4. The discourse of example Louis Marin 5. Fables of responsibility Thomas Keenan 6. The pragmatics of exemplary narrative Alexander Gelley 7. Parabolic exemplarity J. Hillis Miller 8. 'The Beauty of Failure' Ewa Ziarek 9. Exemplarity and the origins of legislation Irene E. Harvey 10. Kant's examples David Lloyd 11. The force of example Cathy Caruth 12. Of the eye and the law Herman Rapaport.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this book challenge Frege's pivotal distinction between sense and reference, and his attendant philosophical views about language and thought.Table of ContentsContents ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN ELEVEN

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Book SynopsisThis book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante.Table of ContentsContents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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Book SynopsisIn this daring book, the author proposes that artistic and literary forms can be understood as modulations of wave forms in the physical world. By the phrase "natural syntax," he means that physical nature enters human communication literally by way of a transmitting wave frequency.

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Book SynopsisBy going back to the Italian humanist tradition and aspects of earlier Greek and Latin thought, Ernesto Grassi develops a conception of rhetoric as the basis of philosophy. He explores the sense in which the first principles of rational thought come from the metaphorical power of the word.Trade ReviewRhetoric as Philosophy is a surprisingly refreshing examination of the history and significance of the Italian humanistic tradition.... In an atmosphere which is heavy with technical and formal languages, this sultably elegant account of another tradition is timely and ecumenical. - Radical Philosophy; ""The cogency of argument, the wealth of detail in so brief a volume, and the attention to some long-forgotten humanist texts make Rhetoric as Philosophy Important reading for those who care about the role of language in human affairs."" - Quarterly Journal of Speech; ""Grassi is convincing in his argument that modern philosophy has attained the prize of 'critical' or analytic rigor at the cost of forsaking the concrete reality of the human situation."" - Faith and Reason; ""[Rhetoric as Philosophy is] extremely suggestive and points to a number of exciting fresh departures from our entrenched academic routines."" - The Review of Metaphysics

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Book SynopsisExplores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent post suffrage organizations - the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - challenged the conventions of male-dominated political discourse and trained women as powerful rhetors.Trade ReviewSharer's in-depth scholarship is superb; she has immersed herself in primary sources of the 1920s and 1930s and skillfully uses contemporary theory of rhetoric and composition to interpret it. - Molly Meier Wertheimer, coeditor of Listening to Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women

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Book SynopsisExamines the importance of rhetoric in the study of film and film theory. Taking on such issues as Hollywood blacklisting, fascistic aesthetics, and postmodern dialogics, this work presents fifteen critical essays that examine rhetoric's role in such films as ""The Fifth Element"", ""The Last Temptation of Christ"", and ""A Time to Kill"".Trade ReviewThe Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film offers readers who have interests or specialities in rhetorical analysis a point of entry into contemporary cinema as it frames issues of style, representation, history, and culture. Although the literature on cinema is vast, relatively few books have adopted an explicitly rhetorical emphasis. Thus, this volume fills a long-neglected gap in the scholarly literature on film. - Stephen Prince, author of Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film

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Book SynopsisReimagining Process explores how process and attending concepts such as reflection, care, power, and portfolios might play a more prominent role in emerging writing studies research.

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Book SynopsisExplores women’s complex and changing relationship to the home and how that affected their entry into the workplace. Jessica Enoch examines the spatial rhetorics that defined the home in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers how its construction and reconstruction has shaped women’s efforts at taking on new kinds of work.

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Book SynopsisBarred from political engagement and legal advocacy, the second sophists composed epideictic works for audiences across the Mediterranean world during the early centuries of the Common Era. In this study, Susan Jarratt argues that these discourses constitute intricate negotiations with the absolute power of the Roman Empire.Trade Review“It will no longer be possible to read Greek literature from the Roman era without referring to Chain of Gold. This book will be a landmark in the history of rhetoric and in the history of Roman imperialism. It initiates a fascinating discussion with implications for our own political issues.”- Laurent Pernot, former president of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, author of Rhetoric in Antiquity“Chain of Gold is not only an essential contribution to scholarship on Greek rhetoric in the Roman Empire; it is an exploration of the nature, limits, and, above all, possibilities for rhetoric in an age of empire. As such, it is critical reading not only for historians of rhetoric but for all who are concerned with the state of speech before authoritarian powers.”- Ned O’Gorman, editor, Journal for the History of Rhetoric“With theoretical subtlety and historical sensitivity, Jarratt brilliantly develops a form of rhetorical analysis precisely calibrated to the distinctive character of Greek rhetors as colonized subjects under the Roman imperium. Carefully argued and engagingly written, Chain of Gold is revisionary rhetorical history at its very best.”- Steven Mailloux, author of Rhetoric’s Pragmatism: Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics

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Book SynopsisDuring the Enlightenment, Scottish intellectuals and administrators met the demands of profit and progress while shepherding concerns for self and other, individual and community, and family and work. This book presents the Scottish Enlightenment as an exemplar of tenacious hope countering the excesses of individualism.Table of Contents Contents PART I. A TALE OF TWO STORIES 1. Communication Ethics: The Necessity of Tenacious Hope Part II. COORDINATES OF CREATIVE INNOVATION 2. Scottish Education: Ethics and Productive Change 3. Lord Provost George Drummond: Architect of Imaginative Space PART III. SCHOLARSHIP AND LOCALITY 4. Adam Smith: Commercial Life and Caution 5. David Hume: Scholarship and Skepticism 6. Thomas Reid: Common Sense and Undue Clarity 7. George Campbell: An Integrative Rhetoric 8. Adam Ferguson: Discerning Intersections PART IV. THE REIFYING GRASP 9. Sir Walter Scott: The Fragility of Commemoration Communication Ethics and Marginalization: The Dark Side of Progress Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIlluminates the pedagogical contributions of three newspaperwomen to show how the field became a dynamic site of public participation, relationship building, education, and activism in the 1880s and 1890s.Trade Review“Bringing together a group of diverse women journalists, Grace Wetzel curates an engaging narrative of community-building, activist journalism that, importantly, pulls these rhetorical figures out of historical record and situates them within a longer legacy of public memory."—Alicia Brazeau, author,Circulating Literacy: Writing Instruction in American Periodicals, 1880-1910"This extraordinary book is not only an engaging work of recovery, but an insightful combination of feminist historiography and public memory that establishes the significance of these women to the field and considers the politics of race and gender in the ways they have been remembered."—Shevaun E. Watson, editor of Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America"Wetzel documents a critical early period of women journalists' influence on American newspaper and media, masterfully weaving rhetorical and pedagogical analysis with the contributions of three trend-setting newspaperwomen and tracing how they used their platform to educate and encourage social action and change. This book serves as an excellent model on how to write and interpret history based on primary text documents."—Cristina D. RamÍrez, author of Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875-1942Table of Contents Foreword by Shari Stenberg Preface Acknowledgements Newspaper Abbreviations Introduction 1.Winifred Black’s “Little Jim” Campaign: Children’s Extracurricular Writing for Social Action 2.Gertrude Bustill Mossell’s “Helpful Sisterhood”:Racial Uplift, Raising Girls, and Reader-Centered Pedagogy 3. Susette La Flesche’s Relational Journalism and Literacy Teaching: Collaborative Practices of Survivance Conclusion—Public Memory and the Pan-Extracurriculum Works Cited

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Book SynopsisIn this wide-ranging analysis, Charles Kostelnick and Michael Hassett demonstrate how visual language in professional communication - text design, data displays, illustrations - is shaped by conventional practices that are invented, codified, and modified by users in visual discourse communities.Trade Review“Charles Kostelnick and Michael Hassett have written a useful and informative book that explores the relation of textual conventions of all sorts to the visual display of information. . . . [Shaping Information] significantly enlarges how we think about conventions, and it will influence its readers to reconsider the arts of visual rhetoric.” — Stephen A. Bernhardt, Rhetoric Review “[Shaping Information] is a useful and important part of the discussion of visual communication. . . . This is a book worth reading and re-reading.” — Susan N. Smith, Information Design Journal Document Design“Shaping Information: The Rhetoric of Visual Conventions by Charles Kostelnick and Michael Hassett provide[s an] accessible and welcome [addition] to the previously slim selection of book-length studies exploring the processes by which designers shape-and readers or users interpret-visual communication. . . . Shaping Information [is a] fascinating [study] that promise[s] to enrich the teaching and study of visual communication now and in the future.” — Bege K. Bowers, Technical Communication Quarterly“Kostelnick and Hassett have written a sound and much needed book. Their framework for visual convention not only organizes unexplored territory in visual theory but also provides a theoretical system and structure of convention that can be used by theorists of writing. Their book makes a satisfying and thoroughly convincing case for the rhetorical basis of visual design.”—David Kaufer, Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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Book SynopsisWhat would it mean to unsettle the archives? How can we better see the wounded and wounding places and histories that produce absence and silence in the name of progress and knowledge? Unsettling Archival Research sets out to answer these urgent questions and more, with essays that chart a more just path for archival work.Trade Review“This book brings together an exceptionally powerful collection of essays dedicated to revealing and amending the epistemic erasures of imperial archives. Chapters present alternatives to concepts often taken for granted in archival research, they reckon with archival methodologies, and they illustrate pluriversal archival efforts and pedagogies. Important and timely, Unsettling Archival Research promises to have lasting impact on rhetoric and writing studies.”—Ellen Cushman, author of The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People’s Perseverance “My approach to archival work is significantly changed after this invigorating read. This collection succeeds in unsettling archives and researchers in the best ways: sharing critiques and tough questions of the field while also providing a toolkit for navigating the disruption in archives and with archivists and students. Blending a range of theories with rich and varied archival examples and classroom practices, both emerging and experienced scholars upend disciplinary knowledge and Western assumptions of neutrality, memory, and history.”—Charlotte Hogg, coeditor of Persuasive Acts: Women’s Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century “This carefully constructed collection offers a welcome next step in complicating our understanding of what constitutes both archive and archival research through diverse case studies and theoretical contributions drawing on antiracist, decolonial, feminist, indigenous, and queer theories and methods. Unsettling Archival Research will assist both emerging and experienced researchers to develop more inclusive and self-reflective practices.”—David Gold, author of Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947 “Comprised of fifteen seminal contributions of original research and experiential insight/experience, Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives is especially recommended as a core addition for personal, professional, community, and academic library collections and studies lists for Library/Information Science, Library Management, and General Library Information Science collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.”— James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review's Library BookwatchTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction—Romeo GarcÍa, Gesa E. Kirsch, Walker P. Smith, and Caitlin Burns Allen Part One. Unsettling Key Concepts 1. Unsettling the “Archive Story”—Jean Bessette 2. Rescuing the Archive from What?—Wendy Hayden 3. Narratives of Triumph: A Case Study of the Polio Archive—Jackie M. James 4. Nostalgia in the Archives: Using Nostalgia as a Tool for Negotiating Ideological Tensions—Kalyn Prince 5. A Matter of Order: The Power of Provenance in the Mercury Collection of Marion Lamm—Kathryn Manis and Patty Wilde Part Two. Unsettling Research, Theory, and Methodology 6. Hidden in Plain Sight: Rescuing the Archives from Disciplinarity—LynÉe Lewis Gaillet and Jessica A. Rose 7. (En)Countering Archival Silences: Critical Lenses, Relationships, and Informal Archives—MarÍa P. Carvajal Regidor 8. Let Them Speak: Rhetorically Reimagining Prison Voices in the Archives of the Collective—Sally F. Benson 9. Bearing Witness to Transient Histories—Pamela Takayoshi 10. The Rhetorical (Im)possibilities of Recovering George Barr: Toward a Decolonial Queer Archival Methodology—Walker P. Smith Part Three. Unsettling Praxis and Pedagogy: Towards Pluriversality 11. Archival Imaginings of the Working-Class College Woman: The 1912-1913 Scrapbook of Josephine Gomon, University of Michigan College Student—Liz Rohan 12. Decolonizing the Transnational Collection: A Heuristic for Teaching Digital Archival Curation and Participation—Tarez Samra Graban 13. Archiving as Learning: Digital Archiving As Heuristic for Transformative Undergraduate Education—Jennifer Almjeld 14. Settling Emerging Scholars in Unsettling Territory: A Case Study—Rebecca Schneider and Deborah Hollis 15. Unsettling Archival Pedagogy—Amy J. Lueck and Nadia Nasr Contributors

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Book SynopsisFeatures cutting-edge research on a range of traditions and practices, challenging the field’s emphasis on Western, Hellenistic, and Christian rhetorics and ideologies.Trade Review “Exceptional, even necessary, reading—not only as a starting place for those interested in broadening discussions of rhetoric and religion but for those seeking to challenge their own thinking about the coherence of the ‘rhetorical tradition.’”—Roger Thompson, author of Emerson and the History of Rhetoric “Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Pluralism in a Postsecular Age confirms the centrality of religious rhetorics to our discipline and to our nation's civic health. The book's exceptionally argued chapters and compelling interludes masterfully engage Indigenous, Jewish, Arab-Islamic, and Buddhist perspectives and think intersectionally about religion's connection to race, culture, gender, and sexuality. This collection is a must read for teachers and students of rhetoric who must see critical engagements with religion as key concerns for pluralism.”—Jessica Enoch, author of Domestic Occupations: Spatial Rhetorics and Women’s Work “This excellent collection is an inclusive, pluralistic example of the next stage in rhetoric’s contribution to the religious turn in the human sciences. The essays provide valuable general accounts of current approaches to reconceiving the interdisciplinary study of traditional religious rhetorics. Also included are chapter interludes with engaging narratives of how authors entered the field.”—Steven Mailloux, author of Rhetoric's Pragmatism: Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics “With Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Pluralism in a Postsecular Age, DePalma, Lynch, Ringer, and their contributors continue a set of important conversations—not only about the role of religion in rhetoric, but also about the hybridity of rhetorical tradition(s) writ large. Deliberately building on previous work about rhetoric and religion and by challenging monolithic perspectives, the volume's essays and unique commentary interludes will encourage, if not demand, other useful scholarship to benefit the field of rhetoric and composition.”—Deborah H. Holdstein, author of Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition and coauthor of Judaic Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition “At this contentious cultural moment, when religious identity is used to draw political boundaries and encourage factionalism, the diverse and illuminating contributions to this volume complicate flattened conceptions of religion in the US and call for renewed appreciation of scholarship rooted in faith. This compelling collection dismisses acts of token tolerance and instead embraces rhetorical contemplation, interanimation, and resonance in the search for religious plurality. Readers come away both critical of shortsighted academic condescension aimed at religion and equipped to incorporate religious rhetoric into classroom discussions—a remarkable achievement.”—LynÉe Lewis Gaillet, coeditor of Remembering Women Differently: Refiguring Rhetorical Work “The coeditors of Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Pluralism in a Postsecular Age offer a kaleidoscope of insight into the persuasive and rhetorical impact of differing religious traditions, announcing for the reader the good, the bad, and the problematic inherent within the rhetorical power of religious influence. I recommend this work as a touchstone for conversation about a perennial topic of unification and dispute, religion.”—Ronald Arnett, author of Communication Ethics and Tenacious Hope: Contemporary Implications of the Scottish EnlightenmentTable of Contents CONTENTS Acknowledgments Foreword: Martin Camper Introduction: Michael-John DePalma, Paul Lynch, and Jeff Ringer Section 1: Interrogating Rhetorics 1.“To Do Things in a Good (Decolonial) Way: Putting Indigenous Rhetorics and Rhetorics of Religion in Conversation,” by Lisa King Interlude: Patricia Bizzell 2.“Feminist Rhetorical Historiography and Religion,” by Lisa Zimmerelli Interlude: Beth Daniell 3.“‘Joy Anyway!’ Narratives of Harm and Flourishing at the Intersections of Religious and LGBTQ+ Rhetorics,” by TJ Geiger, III Interlude: Beverly Moss 4.“We Are Not Born for Ourselves Alone: Jesuit Rhetoric for the Twenty-First Century,” by John Brereton and Cinthia Gannett Interlude: Laurent Pernot Section 2: Inventing Rhetorics 5.“Creating Pathways for Ethical (Inter)Actions: New Directions for Jewish Rhetorics,” by Janice W. Fernheimer Interlude: Patricia Roberts-Miller 6.“Rhetoric and Buddhism Unchained,” by Kurt Spellmeyer Interlude: Elizabeth Vander Lei 7.“Engaging with Arab-Islamic Religious Rhetorics: Why It Matters to Rhetorical Studies,” by Rasha Diab Interlude: Robert Yagelski 8.“Race at the Intersection of Rhetoric and Religion,” by Andre E. Johnson Afterword: Jonathan Alexander Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily transferable and manipulated text, forces us to think about writing, creativity, and the materiality of language in new ways. In Against Expression, editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith present the most innovative works responding to the challenges posed by these developments. Charles Bernstein has described conceptual poetry as poetry pregnant with thought. Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Dworkin and Goldsmith, two of the leading spokespersons and practitioners of conceptual writing, chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors including Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp to the most prominent of today's writers. Nearly all of the major avant-garde groups of the past century are represented here,Trade ReviewCompiled by star practitioner Kenneth Goldsmith and lead academic liaison Craig Dworkin to be not so much a treasury of verse as an argument-by-demonstration, this anthology will excite the reader who wants more than normal literature gives her, as well as annoy—and, perhaps, haunt—the one who values her belief that normal literature gives her everything already." —Los Angeles Review of Booksc"One rarely likes to be told how to read, where to position a text in the context of its literary theory and formal practices, or who the writing owes its legacy to. However, one of the greatest strengths of Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith's Against Expression is that it does precisely that." —Drunken Boat

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Book SynopsisThis guide to writing short scripts has been updated to include three new original short screenplays and details and photographs of two award-winning short films. The author describes the whole script-writing process, from gathering materials to writing, rewriting and formatting.

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Book SynopsisIf the surface of Turkish politics has changed dramatically over the decades, the vocabulary for sorting these changes remains constant: Europe, Islam, minorities, the military, the founding father. This book explores the diverse mobilization and production of history and power in the primary figures that circulate in discourse about Turkey.

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Book SynopsisIf the surface of Turkish politics has changed dramatically over the decades, the vocabulary for sorting these changes remains constant: Europe, Islam, minorities, the military, the founding father. This book explores the diverse mobilization and production of history and power in the primary figures that circulate in discourse about Turkey.

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Book SynopsisOver 25 centuries ago, the Greek philosopher Protagoras declared: on every question there are two opposing answers, including this one. This work sets out to demonstrate that Protagoras' statement constitutes one of the fundamental principles of aesthetic and rhetorical theory.

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Book SynopsisRecent developments in linguistic theory offer scholars new tools for understanding poems. This text reviews poetic texts which respond well to analysis from a particular stylistic perspective. Works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Frost, Shelley and Tennyson are among those analysed.

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Book SynopsisExposes the deeply worrying state of discourse over geoengineering - the intentional manipulation of the earth's climate as means to halt or reverse global warming. The book investigates how geoengineering proponents marshal geologic actors into their arguments - and how current discourse could lead to greater exploitation of the earth.

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Book SynopsisExamines the complexity of public language about cancer, with a particular focus on the historical evolution of US cancer rhetorics during the twentieth century.

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Book SynopsisA rich work that analyses the interplay between ancient rhetorical traditions and modern legal practice, reestablishing the lost connections between law and classical rhetoric. The volume draws on an array of sources to illuminate how ancient rhetorical insights may even today challenge and enrich our grasp of contemporary legal principles.

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