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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘How to Use a Discursive Approach to Study Organizations is a savvy and wonderfully practical book that demonstrates how researchers can generate rich understandings of contemporary organizational phenomena and societal challenges through discursive study. It combines accessible explanations of theory with first-hand insights and sage advice on how researchers might conduct empirical work and analysis with care and creativity. This is a book that the field has needed for a long time.’ -- Gavin Jack, Monash University, Australia'This book is a most welcome addition to the literature on organizational discourse. At once accessible and illuminating in its writing, it offers a practical and informative guide that will help to initiate newcomers into the field of organizational discourse and inspire old-timers. As one of the leading scholars of discourse in the field of organization studies, Cynthia Hardy has a fine-tuned sensitivity to the discursive construction of our organizational worlds. Her imaginative insights into organizational actors’ discursive moves and countermoves demonstrate the analytical potential of a discursive approach to study organizations.' -- Sierk Ybema, Anglia Ruskin University, UK and Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands'At last we have a book that simultaneously explains and demonstrates the value of the discursive approach to the study of organizations. Cynthia Hardy has been a pioneer in organizational discourse analysis over the years and this book is a vivid demonstration of her talent as a prolific, insightful, and influential researcher. I can think of no better introduction to the main ideas and methods of the discursive approach in organizational research than this volume. In simple and attractive language, patiently and methodically, Cynthia Hardy shows the reader how to use the discursive approach. Insofar as language matters in organizational life, this book explains why and shows how to explore its effects systematically. Cynthia Hardy has offered a valuable toolkit to help us better understand and study how organizational phenomena are talked into existence through language. I am certain her book will further invigorate the discursive approach and this will be no small gain for the field.’ -- Haridimos Tsoukas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus and University of Warwick, UK‘Cynthia Hardy has written a superb text on organizational discourse studies. Using extensive empirical examples, she provides insightful discussions of discourse basics, levels of analysis, reflexivity, and materiality. Each chapter also contains vital methodological advice for the analyst. It is truly a must-read for both seasoned and novice scholars.’ -- Linda L. Putnam, University of California, Santa Barbara, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I BASICS 1. Theoretical underpinnings of a discursive approach 2. Understanding dominant discourses 3. Understanding discursive struggle 4. Understanding discursive change PART II LEVELS AND ISSUES 5. Using a discursive approach to study individual identities 6. Using a discursive approach to study organizational identities 7. Using a discursive approach to study organizational change 8. Using a discursive approach to study organizational fields PART III FUTURE CHALLENGES 9. The consumption of discourse 10. Resistance to discourse 11. Reflexivity in research on discourse 12. Materiality and discourse References Index

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Book SynopsisFeaturing a series of engaging conversations with key figures in the field, this accessible Handbook outlines the crucial concepts of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). Mapping the existing literature, contributors use qualitative and quantitative research to invite new engagements with CDS and to provide insight into primary debates.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines children and young people's attempts to participate in conversations about their own treatment throughout uncertain cancer trajectories, including the events leading up to diagnosis, treatment, remission, relapse, and cure or death. Clearly and compellingly written, Clementerelieson a new multi-layered methodto identify six cancer communication strategies Illustrates that communication is central to how children, parents, and healthcare professionals constitute, influence, and make sense of the social worlds they inhabitor that they want to inhabit Provides ethnographic case studies of childhood cancer patients in Spain, using children''s own words Examines the challenges of how to talk to and how to encourage patients'' involvement in reatment discussions In his critique of the telling versus not telling debates, Clemente argues that communication should be adjusted to the children's own needs, and that children''sTrade Review"...opens up broader margins of reflection about how medical diagnoses, and in general medical communication, are delivered and negotiated and provides the reader with extensive references with which the theoretical discussion is constantly confronted and challenged...Clemente is surely paving the way toward a more fertile and effective collaboration between medical and linguistic anthropology..." - Letizia Bonanno, AAA Book Forum, 2016Table of ContentsSeries Preface ix Acknowledgments xii Preface xiv 1. Children: Contributions to Communication and Illness 1 Alternatives to Speaking 5 Disclosure as a Dynamic and Heterogeneous Process 7 Disclosure to Children with Cancer 10 Problematizing Participation 13 Uncertainty and the Practice of Optimism 21 Multiple Uncertainties 21 Hierarchically Organized Uncertainties 23 Variable Uncertainties 23 Practicing Hope and Optimism 25 Ethnography and Conversation Analysis 26 Plan of the Book 31 2. A Linguistic Anthropologist in a Pediatric Cancer Unit 33 Culture and Disclosure Practices in Catalonia 34 Fieldwork with Children 38 Contexts of Children’s Questions 42 Investigating Avoidance 44 Multiple Ways of Talking about Cancer 47 3. Living and Dealing with Cancer 49 Focusing on Treatment 51 Guessing 55 Estar baixet (Having Low Blood Cell Counts) 56 Les llagues (Mouth Sores) 57 La febre (Fever and Infections) 58 Being Together 60 Acompanyar (Being at the Patient’s Side) 61 Menjar (Eating) 63 Fer una visita (Visiting) 64 Talking Privately 67 Uncertainties of Treatment 71 4. Co]constructing Uncertainty 74 Questions and Answers 76 Uncertainty and the Topic of Questions 79 Contingent Answers 80 Contingent Questions 86 Uncertainty and the Action of Questions 88 Answers that Lead to Subsequent Actions 90 Avoiding Answers and Avoiding Silence 93 Stepping into the Uncertain Future One Turn at a Time 100 5. Engaging in Communication at Catalonia Hospital 102 Learning the Diagnosis 103 L’entrevista (The Treatment Interview) 109 “And When Will I Be Completely Cured?” 111 Six Communication Strategies 127 6. Patient Pressure and Medical Authority 129 Everyday Life in Treatment 130 “How Many Chemos Do I Have Left?” 133 Seeking Answers Without Challenging Medical Authority 151 7. The Limits of Optimism at the End of Treatment 153 Remission 154 Relapse 159 Negotiating Death 161 “Is the Day of the Autotransplant Going to Be Delayed?” 168 Optimistic Collusion 178 8. Conclusion 180 Appendix A: Profiles of Patients 189 Children (ages 3-6) 189 Young people (ages 11-18) 190 Appendix B: Transcription Conventions 193 References 197 Index 214

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Book SynopsisA new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaining demonstration of lexical sociolinguistic analysis The Social Life of Words: A Historical Approach explores the rise and fall of the social properties of words, charting ways in which they take on new social connotations. Written in an engaging narrative style, this entertaining text matches up sociolinguistic theory with social history and biography to discover which kind of people used what kind of word, where and when. Social factors such as class, age, race, region, gender, occupation, religion and criminality are discussed in British and American English. From familiar words such as popcorn, porridge, café, to less common words like burgoo, califont, etna, and phrases like kiss me quick, monkey parade, slap-bang shop, The Social Life of Words demonstrates some of the many ways a new word or phrase can develop social affiliations. Detailed yet accessible chapters cover key areas of historical sociolinguistics, including concepts such as social networks, communities of practice, indexicality and enregisterment, prototypes and stereotypes, polysemy, onomasiology, language regard, lexical appropriation, and more. The first book to take a focused look at lexis as a topic for sociolinguistic analysis, The Social Life of Words: Introduces sociolinguistic theories and shows how they can be applied to the lexiconDemonstrates how readers can apply sociolinguistic theory to their own analyses of words in English and other languagesProvides an engaging and amusing new look at many familiar words, inviting students to explore the sociolinguistic properties of words over time for themselvesPart of Wiley Blackwell's acclaimed Language in Society series, The Social Life of Words is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and linguists working in sociolinguistics, lexical semantics, English lexicology, and the history and development of modern English.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface x Acknowledgements xi I Introduction: geyser, califont, ascot 1 I.1 On Concepts, Approaches, Methods, and Theories 4 I.2 On Sources 9 I.3 Editorial Principles 11 1 Lexical Sociolinguistics and Social Networks 15 1.1 Introduction to Social Network Theory 15 1.2 Previous Scholarship 16 1.3 Swiss waiter 17 1.4 Sosison Vo Land 26 1.5 Summary 29 2 Lexical Sociolinguistics and Communities of Practice 31 2.1 Introduction to Communities of Practice 31 2.2 Previous Scholarship 32 2.3 Etna 33 2.3.1 Summary 41 2.4 Laugh! 42 2.5 Summary 45 3 The Sociolinguistics of Polysemy 47 3.1 Introduction to the Sociolinguistics of Polysemy 47 3.2 Previous Scholarship 47 3.3 Maroon 49 3.4 Popcorn 55 3.5 Summary 63 4 The Sociolinguistics of Onomasiology 65 4.1 Introduction to the Sociolinguistics of Onomasiology 65 4.2 Previous Scholarship 65 4.3 direction, address 68 4.4 Kiss Me Quick 74 4.5 Summary 77 5 The Sociolinguistics of Stereotypes 79 5.1 Introduction to the Sociolinguistics of Stereotypes 79 5.2 Previous Scholarship 80 5.3 Goss 81 5.4 Goodwill 83 5.5 Porridge 84 5.6 Fido, Rover 95 5.7 Summary 99 6 Language Regard and Lexical Influencers 102 6.1 Introduction to Language Regard 102 6.2 Previous Scholarship 102 6.3 Café, Restaurant 103 6.3.1 Restaurant 104 6.3.2 Café 106 6.3.3 Slap-Bang Shop 107 6.3.4 Ordinary 108 6.3.5 Alamode Beefshop 109 6.3.6 Coffee-House 111 6.3.7 Coffee-Palace and Coffee-Tavern 112 6.3.8 Buffet 113 6.3.9 Time-Line of Development 114 6.3.10 Coffee Shop 118 6.4 Summary 119 7 Lexical Sociolinguistics, Indexicality and Enregisterment 121 7.1 Introduction to Indexicality and Enregisterment 121 7.2 Previous Scholarship 122 7.3 Drage 124 7.4 Tinned Salmon 127 7.5 Rather! 132 7.6 Summary 134 8 Lexical Sociolinguistics and Spatial Spread 137 8.1 Introduction to Spatial Spread 137 8.2 Previous Scholarship 138 8.3 Monkey Parade, Shopping Parade 140 8.3.1 Summary 146 8.4 Sunnyside 146 8.5 Summary 149 9 Lexical Appropriation 151 9.1 Introduction to Lexical Appropriation 151 9.2 Into 152 9.3 Baggonet 156 9.4 Burgoo 162 9.4.1 What Is Already Known About burgoo 165 9.4.2 Further Data Assembled in Date Order 165 9.4.3 Polysemous Senses of burgoo 167 9.4.4 Onomasiological Sets 168 9.4.5 Spread of burgoo in Physical Space 168 9.4.6 Spread of burgoo in Social Space 172 9.4.7 Perceived Space and Authority Constraints 172 9.4.8 Evidence of Indexicality and Enregisterment 176 9.4.9 Stereotypical Properties 176 9.4.10 Language Regard and Lexical Appropriation 177 9.5 Summary 178 10 Future Directions 181 References 192 Index 195

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Book SynopsisStructuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb meanings. Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions. Utilizes case studies to present a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect and compare it with alternative theories. Useful for students and scholars in semantics and syntax as well as the neighboring fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language. Trade Review"This is the most important book on lexical aspect since David Dowty's seminal Word Meaning and Montague Grammar." Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts–Amherst "As well as providing a clear introduction to the subject, this excellent book extends our knowledge of the lexical aspectual properties of verbs and verb phrases in new and original directions. Rothstein's careful exploitation of the flexibility of event-based semantics in providing a solid foundation for the interpretation of verbal aspect establishes the theory as central to any explanation of this often difficult – but ever fascinating – topic." Ronnie Cann, University of Edinburgh "This outstanding book represents a new breakthrough in the general theory of lexical aspect. The discussions of the previous research are distinguished by clarity as well as new challenges and insights. In a highly engaging way Rothstein also advances new solutions to some of the most thorny issues – including aspectual shifts, progressive achievements, and resultative predication – which will shape the future research in lexical aspect." Hana Filip, Stanford University "Rothstein’s book contains many observations, deep intuitions and exciting analyses which will doubtless be very influential in a variety of areas. Empirically, the book contains a treasure trove of interesting data that will no doubt be mulled over for years to come." LinguaTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Verb Classes and Aspectual Classification:. Introduction. Aspectual Classes of Verbs. The four aspectual classes. Testing for temporal constitution. Semelfactives. Can verbs, as opposed to VPs be aspectually categorized?. 2. Progressive Achievements:. Introduction. Progressive achievements and the imperfective paradox. Achievements are not accomplishments. Temporal Modification. Progressive achievements are different from progressive accomplishments. Deriving Progressive Achievements. Explanations. 3. Resultative Predication:. Introduction. The syntax of secondary predication – a fast review. The semantic interpretation of secondary predication. Secondary predication as a summing operation. Semantic constraints on the secondary predication operation. The semantic interpretation of depictive predication. Object-oriented depictive predication. Subject oriented secondary predication. The semantics of resultatives. The interpretation of simple resultatives. The direct object restriction. Non-accomplishment resultatives. Type shifting in non-accomplishment resultatives. The rest of the questions. Dethematicised resultatives. Why do resultatives not occur with achievements or states?. Fake reflexives. Subject-oriented resultatives. Conclusions and the next set of questions. 4. The Structure of Accomplishments:. Incremental Themes and the notion of 'extent'. Introduction. 'Measuring out' and incrementality. Krifka's theory of quantization. A Theory of Accomplishments. What Are Incremental Themes?. Culminations. Incremental processes and incremental relations. Answering Some Questions about Accomplishments. Aspectual ambiguity with wipe and read. The incremental role of the incremental theme. Kennedy and Levin: Telicity in terms of degree measurements. 5. The Interpretation of Derived Accomplishments:. Aspectual Shift in Resultatives. Transitive Accomplishments. Intransitive resultatives. Why do resultatives have a 'result' meaning?. PPs as paths and PPs as results. Aspectual Shift in Progressive Achievements. The structure of the shift operation. The content of the activity and BECOME events. 6. Quantization, Telicity and Change:. Quantization. Krifka's theory of quantization. Telicity and Change. 7. Telicity and Atomicity:. Telicity and atomicity. Events have their denotation in the count domain. Homogeneity and S-cumulativity in the domain of individuals. Defining sets of atoms. Atomic structure in the domain of events. Atomicty and BECOME events. A note on degree predicates. For a time and in a time. 8. Event Structure and Aspectual Classification:. What are semelfactives?. Why does S-cumulativity characterise states and activities?. Why do we have the lexical aspectual classes that we do?. The general picture: lexical aspect and the structure of the domain of events. References. Index

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Book SynopsisStructuring Events presents a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect for anyone interested in the study of verb meanings. Provides an introduction to aspectual classes and aspectual distinctions. Utilizes case studies to present a novel semantic theory of lexical aspect and compare it with alternative theories. Useful for students and scholars in semantics and syntax as well as the neighboring fields of pragmatics and philosophy of language. Trade Review"This is the most important book on lexical aspect since David Dowty's seminal Word Meaning and Montague Grammar." Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts–Amherst "As well as providing a clear introduction to the subject, this excellent book extends our knowledge of the lexical aspectual properties of verbs and verb phrases in new and original directions. Rothstein's careful exploitation of the flexibility of event-based semantics in providing a solid foundation for the interpretation of verbal aspect establishes the theory as central to any explanation of this often difficult – but ever fascinating – topic." Ronnie Cann, University of Edinburgh "This outstanding book represents a new breakthrough in the general theory of lexical aspect. The discussions of the previous research are distinguished by clarity as well as new challenges and insights. In a highly engaging way Rothstein also advances new solutions to some of the most thorny issues – including aspectual shifts, progressive achievements, and resultative predication – which will shape the future research in lexical aspect." Hana Filip, Stanford University "Rothstein’s book contains many observations, deep intuitions and exciting analyses which will doubtless be very influential in a variety of areas. Empirically, the book contains a treasure trove of interesting data that will no doubt be mulled over for years to come." LinguaTable of ContentsPreface vii 1. Verb Classes and Aspectual Classification 1 2. Progressive Achievements 36 3. Resultative Predication 59 4. The Structure of Accomplishments 91 5. The Interpretation of Derived Accomplishments 123 6. Quantization, Telicity and Change 148 7. Telicity and Atomicity 157 8. Event Structure and Aspectual Classification 183 References 198 Index 202

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Book SynopsisWhat is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field's key ideas about how language works. Explains the fundamental ideas and some of the most significant results of modern semantic theory Combines foundational discussion with simplified analyses of complex phenomena to provide readers with a sense of the fascination to be found in the details of the human language Includes exercises and thought-provoking questions to facilitate learning Trade Review“An excellent book for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. Portner’s approachable, yet serious, presentation gives the reader a firm understanding of the breadth and depth of the science of natural language meaning.” Kai von Fintel, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments x 1 The Fundamental Question 1 1.1 What is a Meaning? 3 1.2 Meanings are Out in the World 11 1.3 We should Think of the Meaning of Sentences in Terms of Truth-Conditions 12 2 Putting a Meaning Together from Pieces 28 2.1 Names Refer 29 2.2 Incomplete Propositions 30 2.3 Prediction is Saturation 31 2.4 Compositionality 33 2.5 Syntax and Semantics 34 3 More about Predicates 40 3.1 Other Types of Predicates: Adjectives, Predicate Nominals 40 3.2 Transitive Verbs 44 3.3 Relative Clauses 45 3.4 Topicalization 48 3.5 Sub-atomic Semantics 49 3.6 Modeling Properties with Sets and Functions 54 4 Modifiers 61 4.1 Adjective + N Combination 61 4.2 More Issues with Adjectives 65 4.3 Relative Clauses as Modifier 68 4.4 Adverbs 69 4.5 The Form of Meanings and their World-describing Content 74 5 Complexities of Referring Expressions 78 5.1 Definite NPs 78 5.2 Some Subtleties 80 5.3 A Bit about Indefinite NPs 83 5.4 Theories of Reference 84 5.5 Plurals and Mass Terms 95 5.6 Kinds 99 5.7 Pronouns and Anaphora 102 6 Quantifiers 112 6.1 Generalized Quantifiers: Predicate of Predicates, or Sets of Sets 113 6.2 NP Conjunction 120 6.3 Negative Polarity Items 122 6.4 Quantifiers in Object Position 127 7 Extensional vs. Intensional Contexts 132 8 Tense, Aspect, and Modality 137 8.1 Tense 138 8.2 Aspect 146 8.3 Modality 154 9 Propositional Attitudes 161 9.1 A Possible Worlds Semantics for Belief and Desire 162 9.2 Logical Consequences of the Modal Analysis of Propositional Attitude Verbs 164 9.3 Two foundational Problems: Coreferential Terms and Logical Truths 166 9.4 Structure and Meaning 170 9.5 Or, Have We Reached the Limits of Semantics? 174 10 The Pragmatics of What’s Given 176 10.1 Indexicality and Deixis 177 10.2 Presupposition 178 10.3 Speech Acts 190 10.4 Focus and Topic 195 11 The Pragmatics of Inference 199 11.1 Properties Implicature 203 12 Formal Semantics Today 206 12.1 Diversity within Formal Semantics 206 12.2 Relationships with Other Varieties of Semantics 213 12.3 Relationships with Other Fields 214 Appendix: Answers to Selected Exercises 218 References 223 Index 230

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Book SynopsisCompositionality in Formal Semantics is a collection of Barbara Partee's papers that have been influential in the field but are not readily available and includes a new introductory essay in which Partee reflects on how her thinking and the field of semantics have developed over the past 35 years.Trade Review"Barbara H. Partee is the founding mother of linguistic semantics as it is practiced today, and this collection of many of her classic papers shows why she has been so influential. The combination of theoretical insight with her legendary ability to find just the right example to make a point is evident throughout. And, as a bonus, the collection begins with a wonderful memoir of the turbulent time when semantics was getting its start." Robert Stalnaker, MIT "Two different audiences will be delighted with this book: those who read the classic papers gathered here when they first appeared and those who did not but are heirs to the rich semantics tradition in formal linguistics that Barbara H. Partee established with those papers and with her irresistible enthusiasm for systematic investigation of linguistic meaning. Partee's keen semantic insights, her flair for telling examples, her intellectual generosity, her clear-headedness, and her pedagogical talents are evident throughout, not just in the vintage pieces but also in the introductory essay she's written and in the couple of articles published more recently. This volume belongs on every semanticist's shelf." Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1 Reflections of a Formal Semanticist 1 2 Opacity, Coreference, and Pronouns 26 3 Some Structural Analogies Between Tenses and Pronouns in English 50 4 Toward the Logic of Tense and Aspect in English with Michael Bennett 59 5 Bound Variables and Other Anaphors 110 6 Anaphora and Semantic Structure with Emmon Bach 122 7 Compositionality 153 8 Appendix B Genitives – A case study 182 9 Ambiguous Pseudoclefts with Unambiguous Be 190 10 Noun Phrase Interpretation and Type-Shifting Principles 203 11 The Airport Squib: Any, Almost, and superlatives 231 12 Many Quantifiers 241 13 Binding Implicit Variables in Quantified Contexts 259 14 Weak NPs in HAVE Sentences 282 15 Some Puzzles of Predicate Possessives with Vladimir Borschev 292 Index 316

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Book SynopsisExplores a theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. This book provides an introduction to aspects of the semantics of noun phrases, as well as comparing alternate theories. It is useful for students and scholars in formal semantics as well as the fields of syntax, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language.Trade Review"An impressive contribution to the study of definiteness effects in natural language, empirically rich and theoretically stimulating. Fred Landman’s style is uniquely engaging – he makes hardcore linguistics fun to read!" Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers University "Some people might think that everything has been said about the semantics of indefinites. Landman's book proves the opposite. It contains a wealth of new ideas and insights about this never-aging topic." Gerhard Jäger, University of PotsdamTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Reading this book at different levels. Introduction. 1. Numerical Adjectives and the Type of Sets. 2. The Adjectival Theory of Indefinite Predicates and Arguments. 3. The Variable Constraint on Predicates and There-Insertion Subjects. 4. Problems for Weak-Strong Analyses of There-Insertion Subjects. 5. There-Insertion Subjects as Subjects Adjoined to Verb Phrases. 6. There-Insertion Subjects Adjoined to Saturated Predicates. 7. Some Questions about There-Insertion in Dutch. 8. The Problem of Negative Noun Phrases. 9. Relational Indefinites and Semantic Incorporation. 10. Definite Time-Adverbials and Event Measures. 11. Indefinite Time-Adverbials and the Counting-Grid. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic rhetorical texts. An introduction to the art of rhetoric for those who are unacquainted with it and an argument about invention and tradition suitable for specialists Texts range from Cicero''s De oratore and Augustine's On Christian Doctrine to Jane Austen's Persuasion and Stephen Greenblatt's Marvellous Possessions Texts serve simultaneously as works of persuasion and considerations of how rhetoric works Engages readers in using rhetoric to deliberate about challenging issues. Trade Review“This is not only a useful introduction to the history of rhetoric, it is also an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory.” (Philosophy In Review)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. Introducting Rhetoric. Part I: Classical Rhetorical Traditions. Introduction. 1 The Rhetorician: Demagogue or Statesman? Plato's Gorgias and Aristotle's Rhetoric. 2 Eloquence, Persuasion, and Invention: Cicero's De oratore. 3 Rhetoric and the Search for God: Augustine's On Christian Doctrine and Confessions. 4 Practical Reason or Interested Calculation? Cicero's On Duties and Machiavelli's The Prince. Part II: Classical Rhetoric and Literary Interpretation. Introduction. 5 Tradition and Invention: Bacon's Aphorisms and the Essays. 6 Deception, Strong Speech, and Mild Discourse in Milton's Early Prose and Paradise Lost. 7 Prudence and Eloquence in Jane Austen's Persuasion. Part III: Rhetoric and Contemporary Disciplines. Introduction. 8 Literary Criticism and Rhetorical Invention: Wayne C. Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction and Stephen Greenblatt's Marvelous Possessions. 9 Faction Politics and Rhetorical Invention: Eugene Garver's For the Sake of Argument and Danielle S. Allen's Talking to Strangers. 10 Legal Reasoning, Historical Contingency, and Change: Edward H. Levi's An Introduction to Legal Reasoning. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic rhetorical texts. An introduction to the art of rhetoric for those who are unacquainted with it and an argument about invention and tradition suitable for specialists Texts range from Cicero''s De oratore and Augustine's On Christian Doctrine to Jane Austen's Persuasion and Stephen Greenblatt's Marvellous Possessions Texts serve simultaneously as works of persuasion and considerations of how rhetoric works Engages readers in using rhetoric to deliberate about challenging issues. Trade Review"Professor Olmsted has produced a much-needed and unique book: an account of rhetorical thinking through the ages focused on specific texts in their cultural contexts. The book does something far more important than impart mere doctrine: it demonstrates how, and teaches one, to think like a rhetorician. It will make an invaluable contribution in and out of the classroom." Walter Jost, University of Virgina "Wendy Olmsted gives scholars and teachers in many disciplines a valuable new kind of historical introduction to rhetoric. In three interrelated sections she provides a clear overview of classical rhetoric, incisive case studies of literature and rhetoric, and a suggestive discussion of rhetorical invention and argument in literary criticism, politics, and law. This book creatively teaches us how to think rhetorically through concrete historical examples of deliberation and judgment." Steven Mailloux, University of CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. Introducting Rhetoric. Part I: Classical Rhetorical Traditions. Introduction. 1 The Rhetorician: Demagogue or Statesman? Plato's Gorgias and Aristotle's Rhetoric. 2 Eloquence, Persuasion, and Invention: Cicero's De oratore. 3 Rhetoric and the Search for God: Augustine's On Christian Doctrine and Confessions. 4 Practical Reason or Interested Calculation? Cicero's On Duties and Machiavelli's The Prince. Part II: Classical Rhetoric and Literary Interpretation. Introduction. 5 Tradition and Invention: Bacon's Aphorisms and the Essays. 6 Deception, Strong Speech, and Mild Discourse in Milton's Early Prose and Paradise Lost. 7 Prudence and Eloquence in Jane Austen's Persuasion. Part III: Rhetoric and Contemporary Disciplines. Introduction. 8 Literary Criticism and Rhetorical Invention: Wayne C. Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction and Stephen Greenblatt's Marvelous Possessions. 9 Faction Politics and Rhetorical Invention: Eugene Garver's For the Sake of Argument and Danielle S. Allen's Talking to Strangers. 10 Legal Reasoning, Historical Contingency, and Change: Edward H. Levi's An Introduction to Legal Reasoning. Index.

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Book Synopsis* An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike. * Challenges the reader's sense of what is possible in a poem. * Traces the history and highlights the potential of poetry.Trade Review"John Redmond's "How to Write a Poem" contains no false notes. He does not patronise his reader with easy examples or workshop games, but lights on his subject with elegant pragmatism and humility. His overall argument arises from a very personal yet wholly professional sense of poetry as an art form in practice, and his examples are informed by deep reading and writerly intuition. I consider the book a small masterpiece of clarity, economy and experience. It brings light to poetry as something made: something real and realised." David Morley, Warwick University "The examples throughout the book are contemporary and provocative in the most helpful sense. ... [Redmond] clearly loves poems, enough to show you in detail how they work." Poetry NewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Question of Address. 2. Viewpoint. 3. The Question of Voices. 4. The Question of Scale. 5. Uses of Repetition. 6. Image. 7. Short Lines. 8. Long Lines. 9. Diction. 10. Uses of Syntax. 11. Tone. 12. Traditional Forms: Ode. 13. Traditional Forms: Epistle. 14. The Question of Background. 15. Conclusion: The Question of Variety. Index

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Book Synopsis* An innovative introduction to writing poetry designed for students of creative writing and budding poets alike. * Challenges the reader's sense of what is possible in a poem. * Traces the history and highlights the potential of poetry.Trade Review"John Redmond's "How to Write a Poem" contains no false notes. He does not patronise his reader with easy examples or workshop games, but lights on his subject with elegant pragmatism and humility. His overall argument arises from a very personal yet wholly professional sense of poetry as an art form in practice, and his examples are informed by deep reading and writerly intuition. I consider the book a small masterpiece of clarity, economy and experience. It brings light to poetry as something made: something real and realised." David Morley, Warwick University "The examples throughout the book are contemporary and provocative in the most helpful sense. ... [Redmond] clearly loves poems, enough to show you in detail how they work." Poetry NewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Question of Address. 2. Viewpoint. 3. The Question of Voices. 4. The Question of Scale. 5. Uses of Repetition. 6. Image. 7. Short Lines. 8. Long Lines. 9. Diction. 10. Uses of Syntax. 11. Tone. 12. Traditional Forms: Ode. 13. Traditional Forms: Epistle. 14. The Question of Background. 15. Conclusion: The Question of Variety. Index

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Book SynopsisThis complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium. Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion.Trade Review"This Companion contains strong contributions.... Andrew Erskine's excellent chapter on the practical side of Hellenistic rhetoric; and Teresa Moragn manages a broad coverage of rhetoric and education." (Greece & Rome, 2008) "Exploring rhetoric from a variety of sociohistorical and thematic contexts from the Homeric to the Byzantine period, this companion sets a standard that should serve the discipline for some years to come." (Choice) “The editor…has provided us with a fresh overview of important areas…in chapters that bristle with information and insight. The volume has been well edited.” (Bryn Mawr Classical Review) "A well planned and constructed volume is presented in an equally well-constructed series [Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World]." (Reference Reviews)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Preface: For Readers – and Reviewers x Notes xii Abbreviations xiii Speeches of the Attic Orators xiv Part I Setting the Scene 1 1 Rhetorical Questions 3 Edward Schiappa and Jim Hamm 2 Modern Interpretations of Classical Greek Rhetoric 16 Takis Poulakos Part II Rhetoric: A Brief History 25 3 Background and Origins: Oratory and Rhetoric before the Sophists 27 Michael Gagarin 4 Gorgias the Sophist and Early Rhetoric 37 Jeroen A.E. Bons 5 Alcidamas 47 Michael Edwards 6 Isocrates 58 Terry L. Papillon 7 Plato’s Rhetoric 75 Harvey Yunis 8 The Rhetoric to Alexander 90 P. Chiron 9 Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric 107 W.W. Fortenbaugh 10 Hellenistic Rhetoric in Theory and Practice 124 John Vanderspoel 11 The New World Order: Greek Rhetoric in Rome 139 Joy Connolly 12 Rhetoric in Byzantium 166 Elizabeth Jeffreys Part III Rhetoric and Speeches 185 13 The Parts of the Speech 187 Michael de Brauw 14 Forensic Oratory 203 Craig Cooper 15 Symbouleutic Oratory 220 Stephen Usher 16 Epideictic Oratory 236 Christopher Carey Part IV Rhetoric: Political, Social and Intellectual Contexts 253 17 Rhetoric and Politics in Classical Greece: Rise of the Rhe¯tores 255 Ian Worthington 18 Rhetoric and Persuasion in the Hellenistic World: Speaking up for the Polis 272 Andrew Erskine 19 Rhetoric and the Law 286 James P. Sickinger 20 Rhetoric and Education 303 Teresa Morgan 21 Rhetoric and Religion 320 Ken Dowden 22 Rhetoric and Language 336 A. Lopez Eire 23 Rhetoric and Logic 350 James Allen 24 Rhetoric and Knowledge 365 Tobias Reinhardt 25 Rhetoric and Ethics from the Sophists to Aristotle 378 Jane M. Day 26 Rhetoric, Manliness and Contest 393 Joseph Roisman 27 Rhetoric and Emotion 411 David Konstan Part V Rhetoric and Literature 427 28 Right Rhetoric in Homer 429 Hanna M. Roisman 29 Hesiod’s Rhetorical Art 447 Jenny Strauss Clay 30 Acts of Persuasion in Hellenistic Epic: Honey-Sweet Words in Apollonius 458 Anatole Mori 31 Rhetoric and Tragedy: Weapons of Mass Persuasion 473 Marianne McDonald 32 Attic Comedy and the Development of Theoretical Rhetoric 490 Thomas K. Hubbard 33 Rhetoric and Lyric Poetry 509 William H. Race 34 Rhetoric and the Novel: Sex, Lies and Sophistic 526 Ruth Webb 35 Rhetoric and Historiography 542 Matthew Fox and Niall Livingstone Bibliography 562 Index 594

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. * Assesses rhetoric's place in the larger intellectual universe.Trade Review"Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted have produced a remarkable volume that serves equally well as an introduction to rhetorical studies and as a reference work for specialists. The range of the essays and the credentials of the contributors mark the book as important, but its most notable feature is the conception and development of a general work on rhetoric that remains connected with specific texts, historical contexts, and material circumstances ... The result is a volume impressive in its parts and invaluable in its totality – a must read." Michael C. Leff, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Introduction xv Acknowledgments xvii PART I Rhetoric in Its Place and Time 1 1 Introduction: Contingency and Probability 5Dilip Parmeshwar Gaonkar 2 The Politics of Deliberation: Oratory and Democracy in Classical Athens 22David Cohen 3 Text and Context in the Roman Forum: The Case of Cicero’s First Catilinarian 38B. A. Krostenko 4 A Conversational Opener: The Rhetorical Paradigm of John 1:1 58Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle 5 Continental Poetics 80Arthur F. Kinney 6 ‘‘His tail at commandment’’: George Puttenham and the Carnivalization of Rhetoric 96Wayne A. Rebhorn 7 Rhetorical Selfhood in Erasmus and Milton 112Thomas O. Sloane 8 Rhetoric, Rights, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period 128Victoria Kahn 9 The Philosophy of Rhetoric in Campbell’s Philosophy of Rhetoric 141Joel C. Weinsheimer 10 The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke 152Herbert W. Simons PART II Rhetoric’s Favorite Places 169 11 Topics (and deliberation): Exemplifying Deliberation: Cicero’s De Officiis and Machiavelli’s Prince 173Wendy Olmsted 12 Deliberation (and topics): Cultivating Deliberating: Mindfully Resourceful Innovation In and Through the Federalist Papers 190David J. Smigelskis 13 Ethos: Socrates Talks Himself Out of His Body: Ethical Argument and Personal Immortality in the Phaedo 206Eugene Garver 14 Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion 221James L. Kasteley 15 Analogies, Parables, Paradoxes: Get On Down: Plato’s Rhetoric of Education in the Republic 238Kathy Eden 16 Style: The Rhetoric of the Aphorism 248Gary Saul Morson 17 Argumentation: What Jokes Can Tell Us About Arguments 266Thomas Conley 18 Commonplaces: Sensus Communis 278John D. Schaeffer 19 Judgment: Arts of Persuasion and Judgment: Rhetoric and Aesthetics 294Anthony J. Cascardi PART III Rhetoric and Its Critics 309 20 Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost 311Walter Jost 21 Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstraction – in General 325Peter J. Rabinowitz 22 Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever: Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise 340James Phelan 23 ‘‘Mind the Gap’’: W. G. Sebald and the Rhetoric of Unrest 355Adam Zachary Newton 24 Rhetoric in the Wilderness: The Deep Rhetoric of the Late Twentieth Century 372James Crosswhite PART IV All in Good Time – and Timing 389 25 Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Bakhtin’s Discourse Theory 393Don Bialostosky 26 Reviving the Rhetorical Heritage of Protestant Theology 409Stephen H. Webb 27 Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir 425Nancy S. Struever 28 Rhetoric in the Law 442Robert P. Burns 29 Rhetorical Hermeneutics Still Again: or, On the Track of Phronèsis 457Steven Mailloux 30 Rhetoric and Poetics: How to Use the Inevitable Return of the Repressed 473Charles Altieri 31 My Life with Rhetoric: From Neglect to Obsession 494Wayne C. Booth Index 505

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Book SynopsisPolitical Correctness Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single collective mind-set. His book establishes beyond doubt that there is such a phenomenon, that it has become dominant in our culture, and that it represents a growing tendency to censor public debate and to prevent people from questioning orthodoxies which we all know to be false. Roger Scruton, American Enterprise Institute What a joy this book is! Hughes' study traces, with unflagging zest, the modern history of PC. Sumptuous in data, in judgment precise, this is the latest and fullest of Hughes' series on the social history of language. Walter Nash, Professor Emeritus, University of Nottingham Political Correctness is now an everyday phrase and part of the modern mindset. Everyone thinks they know what it means, but its own meaning constantly shifts. Its suTrade Review"Prof. Hughes' Political Correctness deals with both its history and its use at present. And he deals with both aspects in a masterly fashion. Consequently, this book is highly recommendable because of what it says as well as, what is probably more important, because of the multitude of suggestions and questions it inspires." (Australian Journal of Linguistics, February 2011) "Some books are written to be read, and other books are reference works. Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture is unusual in that it is both jam-packed with detailed information and yet makes for a good read. Everyone should read this book and also keep it on the shelf as an excellent reference work. This informative and well written book covers more than just the notion of political correctness (PC) in the narrow sense. It encompasses far more than the problem of increased, PC kinds of concerns, as discussed in Part I, Political Correctness and Its Origins." (PsycCritiques, August 2010) "Hughes ultimately comes down against artificiality, suggesting that political correctness is a form of social engineering that arises from good intentions coupled with Puritanism. A useful book for anyone interested in language and culture." (CHOICE, June 2010) “Hughes' book provides a wide-ranging examination of a phenomenon that has had an immense influence on our culture, for both good and ill. Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture is an entertaining, thought-provoking foray into an interesting and important area. Hughes focuses mainly on the effect of P.C. in contemporary Britain, America and South Africa, but he looks at earlier historical periods (such as the Reformation) too. This is the best book written on the subject, and that by some distance. It is an essential study, rigorous and critical and absolutely indispensable.” (Compulsive Reader, April 2010) “Focusing on the historical, semantic, and cultural aspects of political correctness, this brilliant and unique work will intrigue anyone interested in this ongoing debate.” ( Lavoisier, November 2009) "One must maintain a sense of humour when entering this arena, where voices of the global cultural elite sometimes present themselves as brave and daring for taking potshots at the sidelined or powerless. An emeritus 'historian of the English language', Hughes knows a lot about dictionaries of every stripe, whether orthodox or slang. He can provide the history of innumerable words, enabling readers to follow semantic changes, neologisms and other evolutions in the 'word field.'" (Times Higher Education, November 2009)Table of ContentsPreface viii Acknowledgments xii Epigraphs xiii Part I Political Correctness and its Origins 1 Chapter 1 Defining Political Correctness 3 Chapter 2 The Origins and the Debate 60 Part II The Semantic Aspect 85 Chapter 3 Words and Authorities: Dictionaries and Lexicographers 87 Chapter 4 The Evolution of the Word Field 106 Part III Zones of Controversy 113 Chapter 5 Issues of Race, Nationality, and Difference 115 Chapter 6 Agendas Old and New 178 Part IV Cultural and Historical Issues 215 Chapter 7 Political Correctness in the Past 217 Chapter 8 Culture 236 Conclusion: The Right Thing to Do? Progressive Orthodoxy, Empty Convention or Double Standard? 283 Bibliography 298 Author and Subject Index 309 Word Index 317

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Book SynopsisPolitical Correctness Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single collective mind-set. His book establishes beyond doubt that there is such a phenomenon, that it has become dominant in our culture, and that it represents a growing tendency to censor public debate and to prevent people from questioning orthodoxies which we all know to be false. Roger Scruton, American Enterprise Institute What a joy this book is! Hughes' study traces, with unflagging zest, the modern history of PC. Sumptuous in data, in judgment precise, this is the latest and fullest of Hughes' series on the social history of language. Walter Nash, Professor Emeritus, University of Nottingham Political Correctness is now an everyday phrase and part of the modern mindset. Everyone thinks they know what it means, but its own meaning constantly shifts. Its suTrade Review"Prof. Hughes' Political Correctness deals with both its history and its use at present. And he deals with both aspects in a masterly fashion. Consequently, this book is highly recommendable because of what it says as well as, what is probably more important, because of the multitude of suggestions and questions it inspires." (Australian Journal of Linguistics, February 2011) "Some books are written to be read, and other books are reference works. Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture is unusual in that it is both jam-packed with detailed information and yet makes for a good read. Everyone should read this book and also keep it on the shelf as an excellent reference work. This informative and well written book covers more than just the notion of political correctness (PC) in the narrow sense. It encompasses far more than the problem of increased, PC kinds of concerns, as discussed in Part I, Political Correctness and Its Origins." (PsycCritiques, August 2010) "Hughes ultimately comes down against artificiality, suggesting that political correctness is a form of social engineering that arises from good intentions coupled with Puritanism. A useful book for anyone interested in language and culture." (CHOICE, June 2010) “Hughes' book provides a wide-ranging examination of a phenomenon that has had an immense influence on our culture, for both good and ill. Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture is an entertaining, thought-provoking foray into an interesting and important area. Hughes focuses mainly on the effect of P.C. in contemporary Britain, America and South Africa, but he looks at earlier historical periods (such as the Reformation) too. This is the best book written on the subject, and that by some distance. It is an essential study, rigorous and critical and absolutely indispensable.” (Compulsive Reader, April 2010) “Focusing on the historical, semantic, and cultural aspects of political correctness, this brilliant and unique work will intrigue anyone interested in this ongoing debate.” ( Lavoisier, November 2009) "One must maintain a sense of humour when entering this arena, where voices of the global cultural elite sometimes present themselves as brave and daring for taking potshots at the sidelined or powerless. An emeritus 'historian of the English language', Hughes knows a lot about dictionaries of every stripe, whether orthodox or slang. He can provide the history of innumerable words, enabling readers to follow semantic changes, neologisms and other evolutions in the 'word field.'" (Times Higher Education, November 2009) New Scholarly Books Listing, (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2010)Table of ContentsPreface viii Acknowledgments xii Epigraphs xiii Part I Political Correctness and its Origins 1 Chapter 1 Defining Political Correctness 3 Chapter 2 The Origins and the Debate 60 Part II The Semantic Aspect 85 Chapter 3 Words and Authorities: Dictionaries and Lexicographers 87 Chapter 4 The Evolution of the Word Field 106 Part III Zones of Controversy 113 Chapter 5 Issues of Race, Nationality, and Difference 115 Chapter 6 Agendas Old and New 178 Part IV Cultural and Historical Issues 215 Chapter 7 Political Correctness in the Past 217 Chapter 8 Culture 236 Conclusion: The Right Thing to Do? Progressive Orthodoxy, Empty Convention or Double Standard? 283 Bibliography 298 Author and Subject Index 309 Word Index 317

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Book SynopsisDiscursive Practice is a theory of the linguistic and socio-cultural characteristics of recurring episodes of face-to-face interaction; episodes that have social and cultural significance to a community of speakers.Trade Review“In this he has succeeded, and for this reason the book would be a valuable addition to the libraries of teachers interested in theoretical concerns that underlie teaching practice.” (JALT Journal, 1 November 2012) “Particularly appreciated may be the care with which he locates this scholarship within broader intellectual histories, outlining major debates in the field, and making suggestions for interested readers about where to go for further study.” (Applied Linguistics, 30 November 2012) "This book has two major strengths. First, Young argues for the importance of con¬text in the study of language learning and teaching. Second, he provides a useful review of the development of approaches to the understanding of language in context." (Discourse Studies, 2011) "On the whole, the book works extremely well as an introduction to discourse practice. It provides compelling arguments for its use as a tool for analysing language in use." (Linguist, October 2010)"Richard Young's book provides a wonderfully comprehensive account of discursive practices and social context in second language acquisition that synthesizes important theoretical and empirical insights from sociolinguistics, sociocultural theory, systemic functional grammar, and conversation analysis. This is a must read!" (Numa Markee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)Table of Contents1. What is Discursive Practice?. 2. Foundations for the Study of Practice. 3. Investigating Context. 4. Discursive Resources. 5. Language Learning and Discursive Practice. 6. Contexts of Teaching and Testing. 7. Prospects for Practice

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Book SynopsisTalk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions, introducing students to the research methodology of Conversation Analysis. Features a unique focus on real-world applications of CA by examining four institutional domains: calls to emergency numbers, doctor-patient interaction, courtroom trials, and mass communication, Provides a theoretical and methodological overview of the roots of CA, reviewing the main developments and findings of research on talk and social institutions conducted over the past 25 years Showcases the significance of this subject to everyday events, making it ideal for students coming to the field for the first time Written by two leading figures in the field of Conversation Analysis Trade Review"More specifically, this book provides an excellent recapitulation of empirical work in four key areas of institutional talk." (Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1 February 2013) "Lastly, as a more general recommendation, I should say that anyone interested in the intersection of context, identity and talk-in interaction would not be spending their time poorly by exploring some of the chapters in this exceptionally well-designed book, and I feel it is safe to say that this book will remain the go-to foundational text for Institutional Conversational Analysis for some time to come." (Journal of Language and Politics, 2012) "As a whole, Talk in Action: Interactions, Identities and Institutionsis a highly recommended, state-of-the-art book for researchers who wish to explore naturally occurring processes and self-construction in face-to-face and telephone institutional communication." (Discourse and Communication, 1 November 2012) "As such, this volume provides a valuable guide to analytical tools for understanding institutional talk. Useful for students and emerging scholars of CA and institutional talk, this volume sheds light on both the analytical approach and conceptual themes that are relevant within these domains and beyond." (Discourse Studies, 2012) "By providing crisp, cogent, and compelling introductions to the fundamentals of CA, these books by Sidnell and Heritage & Clayman will undoubtedly not only help teachers create 'Aha' experiences for their students (Tannen 1984), but also attract and inspire future generations of conversation analytic scholars." (Language in Society, 2011) "Among the great assets of this publication is the comprehensive coverage of research on the areas in focus, conversation analytic or otherwise. This makes the book a perfect starting point for anyone interested in institutional interaction of the varieties described here. True to its conversation analytic roots, the book manages to combine this large-scale overview of the literature with detailed analysis, which is always highly relevant and revealing. This book is an impressive scholarly achievement, spanning a vast amount of research and a wide variety of institutional settings. Any student of talk -- institutional or otherwise -- will find this an indispensable source of conversation analytic insight." (Linguist List, November 2010) "Heritage's and Clayman's book is a comprehensive introduction to the conversation analytic approach to institutional talk, focusing on emergency telephone calls, doctor-patient interactions, interaction in court, and news interviews / mass communication . . .overall, however, this book is an impressive scholarly achievement, spanning a vast amount of research and a wide variety of institutional settings. Any student of talk - institutional or otherwise - will find this an indispensable source of conversation analytic insight." (Linguist List, 1 November 2010)Table of Contents1 Introduction 1 Part 1 Conversation Analysis and Social Institutions 5 2 Conversation Analysis: Some Theoretical Background 7 3 Talking Social Institutions into Being 20 4 Dimensions of Institutional Talk 34 Part 2 Calls for Emergency Service 51 5 Emergency Calls as Institutional Talk 53 6 Gatekeeping and Entitlement to Emergency Service 69 7 Emergency Calls under Stress 87 Part 3 Doctor–Patient Interaction 101 8 Patients’ Presentations of Medical Issues: The Doctor’s Problem 103 9 Patients’ Presentations of Medical Issues: The Patient’s Problem 119 10 History Taking in Medicine: Questions and Answers 135 11 Diagnosis and Treatment: Medical Authority and Its Limits 154 Part 4 Trials, Juries, and Dispute Resolution 171 12 Trial Examinations 173 13 Jury Deliberations 186 14 Informal Modes of Dispute Resolution 200 Part 5 News and Political Communication 213 15 News Interview Turn Taking 215 16 Question Design in the News Interview and Beyond 227 17 Answers and Evasions 245 18 Interaction en Masse: Audiences and Speeches 263 19 Conclusion 280 Transcript Symbols 283 References 288 Index of Names 304 Index of Subjects 309

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Book SynopsisThe way in which we understand the concept of intelligence is rooted in metaphor and metonymy; for example, it is common to describe people as bright' or thick'. This book explores the motivation for some of the lexemes in this semantic field across the history of the English language, considering the range of cognitive mechanisms and cultural factors that can inform metaphorical and metonymical mappings. Provides a much-needed diachronic approach to theories of metaphor and metonymy within cognitive semantics, building on the work of scholars such as Geeraerts and Sweetser Argues that a diachronic approach offers a fresh perspective which can both complement and challenge current theories of metaphor and metonymy Explores both cognitive and cultural issues relating to motivation, and takes account of established theoriTrade Review"Allan has collected and analyzed a great deal of lexicographical data, which she carefully lists in her volume ... [It] suggests a wealth of hidden potential ... Some of her findings could even turn out to be groundbreaking as regards the linguistic representation of human cognition." (Metaphor and Symbol, 19 February 2011) Table of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Senses. 3. Density. 4. Animals. 5. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. * Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium. * Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Preface: For Readers – and Reviewers x Notes xii Abbreviations xiii Speeches of the Attic Orators xiv Part I Setting the Scene 1 1 Rhetorical Questions 3Edward Schiappa and Jim Hamm 2 Modern Interpretations of Classical Greek Rhetoric 16Takis Poulakos Part II Rhetoric: A Brief History 25 3 Background and Origins: Oratory and Rhetoric before the Sophists 27Michael Gagarin 4 Gorgias the Sophist and Early Rhetoric 37Jeroen A.E. Bons 5 Alcidamas 47Michael Edwards 6 Isocrates 58Terry L. Papillon 7 Plato’s Rhetoric 75Harvey Yunis 8 The Rhetoric to Alexander 90P. Chiron 9 Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric 107W.W. Fortenbaugh 10 Hellenistic Rhetoric in Theory and Practice 124John Vanderspoel 11 The New World Order: Greek Rhetoric in Rome 139Joy Connolly 12 Rhetoric in Byzantium 166Elizabeth Jeffreys Part III Rhetoric and Speeches 185 13 The Parts of the Speech 187Michael de Brauw 14 Forensic Oratory 203Craig Cooper 15 Symbouleutic Oratory 220Stephen Usher 16 Epideictic Oratory 236Christopher Carey Part IV Rhetoric: Political, Social and Intellectual Contexts 253 17 Rhetoric and Politics in Classical Greece: Rise of the Rhetores 255Ian Worthington 18 Rhetoric and Persuasion in the Hellenistic World: Speaking up for the Polis 272Andrew Erskine 19 Rhetoric and the Law 286James P. Sickinger 20 Rhetoric and Education 303Teresa Morgan 21 Rhetoric and Religion 320Ken Dowden 22 Rhetoric and Language 336A. Lo´pez Eire 23 Rhetoric and Logic 350James Allen 24 Rhetoric and Knowledge 365Tobias Reinhardt 25 Rhetoric and Ethics from the Sophists to Aristotle 378Jane M. Day 26 Rhetoric, Manliness and Contest 393Joseph Roisman 27 Rhetoric and Emotion 411David Konstan Part V Rhetoric and Literature 427 28 Right Rhetoric in Homer 429Hanna M. Roisman 29 Hesiod’s Rhetorical Art 447Jenny Strauss Clay 30 Acts of Persuasion in Hellenistic Epic: Honey-Sweet Words in Apollonius 458Anatole Mori 31 Rhetoric and Tragedy: Weapons of Mass Persuasion 473Marianne McDonald 32 Attic Comedy and the Development of Theoretical Rhetoric 490Thomas K. Hubbard 33 Rhetoric and Lyric Poetry 509William H. Race 34 Rhetoric and the Novel: Sex, Lies and Sophistic 526Ruth Webb 35 Rhetoric and Historiography 542Matthew Fox and Niall Livingstone Bibliography 562 Index 594

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Book SynopsisA guide to Roman rhetoric from its origins to the Renaissance and beyond. Comprises 32 original essays by leading international scholars. Explores major figures Cicero and Quintilian in-depth. Covers a broad range of topics such as rhetoric and politics, gender, status, self-identity, education, and literature.Trade Review"Dominik and Hall have produced a solid, well-structured and accessible piece of work, which not only provides an excellent starting point to newcomers, but also contains a number of original contributions that will be of interest to more advanced scholars." (Scholia Reviews, June 2010) Table of ContentsContents Notes on Contributors viii Preface xii Texts and Abbreviations xiv Part I Approaching Rhetoric 1 1 Confronting Roman Rhetoric 3William Dominik and Jon Hall 2 Modern Critical Approaches to Roman Rhetoric 9John Dugan 3 Greek Rhetoric Meets Rome: Expansion, Resistance, and Acculturation 23Sarah Culpepper Stroup 4 Native Roman Rhetoric: Plautus and Terence 38John Barsby 5 Roman Oratory Before Cicero: The Elder Cato and Gaius Gracchus 54Enrica Sciarrino Part II Rhetoric and Its Social Context 67 6 Rhetorical Education and Social Reproduction in the Republic and Early Empire 69Anthony Corbeill 7 Virile Tongues: Rhetoric and Masculinity 83Joy Connolly 8 Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic 98Michael C. Alexander 9 Oratory and Politics in the Empire 109Steven H. Rutledge 10 Roman Senatorial Oratory 122John T. Ramsey 11 Panegyric 136Roger Rees 12 Roman Oratorical Invective 149Valentina Arena Part III Systematizing Rhetoric 161 13 Roman Rhetorical Handbooks 163Robert N. Gaines 14 Elocutio: Latin Prose Style 181Roderich Kirchner 15 Memory and the Roman Orator 195Jocelyn Penny Small 16 Wit and Humor in Roman Rhetoric 207Edwin Rabbie 17 Oratorical Delivery and the Emotions: Theory and Practice 218Jon Hall Part IV Rhetoricians and Orators 235 18 Lost Orators of Rome 237Catherine Steel 19 Cicero as Rhetorician 250James M. May 20 Cicero as Orator 264Christopher P. Craig 21 Grammarians and Rhetoricians 285Charles McNelis 22 Roman Declamation: The Elder Seneca and Quintilian 297W. Martin Bloomer 23 Quintilian as Rhetorician and Teacher 307Jorge Ferna´ndez Lo´pez 24 Tacitus and Pliny on Oratory 323William Dominik 25 Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic 339Graham Anderson 26 Roman Rhetoric and Its Afterlife 354John O. Ward Part V Rhetoric and Roman Literature 367 27 Rhetoric and Literature at Rome 369Matthew Fox 28 Rhetoric and Epic: Vergil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Bellum Civile 382Emanuele Narducci 29 Rhetoric and Satire: Horace, Persius, and Juvenal 396Dan Hooley 30 Rhetoric and Ovid 413Ulrike Auhagen 31 Rhetoric and the Younger Seneca 425Marcus Wilson 32 Rhetoric and Historiography 439Cynthia Damon Bibliography 451 Glossary of Technical Terms 487 Index Locorum 495 General Index 502

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how interprofessional collaboration and service user participation are challenged in multi-agency meetings, demonstrating how collaborative and integrated welfare policy is contingent on the interactional practices of professionals and service users and providing examples of best practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Kirsi Juhila, Tanja Dall, Christopher Hall, and Juliet Koprowska From a collaborative and integrated welfare policy to frontline practices ~ Kirsi Juhila, Suvi Raitakari, Dorte Caswell, Tanja Dall and Monika Wilińska Examining talk and interaction in meetings of professionals and service users ~ Christopher Hall and Tanja Dall How chairs use the pronoun ‘we’ to guide participation in rehabilitation team meetings ~ Tanja Dall and Dorte Caswell Working within frames and across boundaries in core group meetings in child protection ~ Christopher Hall and Stef Slembrouck Alignment and service user participation in low- threshold meetings with people using drugs ~ Suvi Raitakari, Johanna Ranta and Sirpa Saario Sympathy and micropolitics in return- to- work meetings ~ Pia H. Bülow and Monika Wilińska Negotiating epistemic rights to knowledge concerning service users’ recent histories in mental health meetings ~ Kirsi Juhila, Lisa Morriss and Suvi Raitakari Relational agency and epistemic justice in initial child protection conferences ~ Juliet Koprowska

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how interprofessional collaboration and service user participation are challenged in multi-agency meetings, demonstrating how collaborative and integrated welfare policy is contingent on the interactional practices of professionals and service users and providing examples of best practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Kirsi Juhila, Tanja Dall, Christopher Hall, and Juliet Koprowska From a collaborative and integrated welfare policy to frontline practices ~ Kirsi Juhila, Suvi Raitakari, Dorte Caswell, Tanja Dall and Monika Wilińska Examining talk and interaction in meetings of professionals and service users ~ Christopher Hall and Tanja Dall How chairs use the pronoun ‘we’ to guide participation in rehabilitation team meetings ~ Tanja Dall and Dorte Caswell Working within frames and across boundaries in core group meetings in child protection ~ Christopher Hall and Stef Slembrouck Alignment and service user participation in low- threshold meetings with people using drugs ~ Suvi Raitakari, Johanna Ranta and Sirpa Saario Sympathy and micropolitics in return- to- work meetings ~ Pia H. Bülow and Monika Wilińska Negotiating epistemic rights to knowledge concerning service users’ recent histories in mental health meetings ~ Kirsi Juhila, Lisa Morriss and Suvi Raitakari Relational agency and epistemic justice in initial child protection conferences ~ Juliet Koprowska

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Book SynopsisIn the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city a place where artists from around the world gather and can make a life. Moving Words foregrounds the many contexts in which life in the city of Berlin is made literary from old neighbourhood bookshops to new reading circles, NGOs working to secure asylum for writers living in exile to specialized workshops for young migrant poets. Highlighting the differences, tensions, and contradictions of these scenes, this book reveals how literature can be both a site of domination and a resource for resisting and transforming those conditions. By attending to the everyday lives of writers, readers, booksellers, and translators, it offers a crucial new vantage point on the politics of difference in contemporary Europe, at a moment marked by historical violence, resurgent nationalism, and the fraught politics of migration. RooteTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: Berlin, City of Letters 2. The Prosody of Social Ties: Poetry and Fleeting Moments in a Workshop 3. Exile in Translation: The Politics of Remaining Unknown 4. In the Footsteps of a Flaneur: A Grammar of Returning (to a Street) 5. Collecting, Selecting, Connecting: Making Books and Making Do 6. Life in a Net of Language: Literature, Translation, and the Feel of Words Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city – a place where artists from around the world gather and can make a life. Moving Words foregrounds the many contexts in which life in the city of Berlin is made literary – from old neighbourhood bookshops to new reading circles, NGOs working to secure asylum for writers living in exile to specialized workshops for young migrant poets. Highlighting the differences, tensions, and contradictions of these scenes, this book reveals how literature can be both a site of domination and a resource for resisting and transforming those conditions. By attending to the everyday lives of writers, readers, booksellers, and translators, it offers a crucial new vantage point on the politics of difference in contemporary Europe, at a moment marked by historical violence, resurgent nationalism, and the fraught politics of migratiTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: Berlin, City of Letters 2. The Prosody of Social Ties: Poetry and Fleeting Moments in a Workshop 3. Exile in Translation: The Politics of Remaining Unknown 4. In the Footsteps of a Flaneur: A Grammar of Returning (to a Street) 5. Collecting, Selecting, Connecting: Making Books and Making Do 6. Life in a Net of Language: Literature, Translation, and the Feel of Words Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIt is the 1960s, and Ireland is hoping to join what will later become the European Union. The government has devised a plan to stem emigration and save the Irish language by supporting small factories in the Gaeltacht, traditional Irish-speaking villages in remote western areas. But is the plan working? With her signature humor and charm, Eileen Kane transports the reader to County Donegal with a detailed account of rural Irish life during this period of rapid change. This is a story about people living beyond the margins of maps, boundaries, language groups, and government departments people bound by borders that have little or no correspondence to their own cultural, economic, and historical margins. Ultimately, it is a story about life on the edges, and the places and people who fall outside them.Table of ContentsPreface Prologue 1. November (Mí na Samhna) 1966 2. December (Mí na Nollag) 1966 3. January (Mí Eanáir) 1967 4. February (Mí Feabhra) 1967 5. March (Mí Márta) 1967 6. April (Mí Aibreáinn) 1967 7. May (Mí Bealtaine) 1967 8. June (Mí Meithimh) 1967 9. July (Mí Lúil) 1967 10. August (Mí Lúnasa) 1967 11. September (Mí Mheán Fómhair) 1967 12. October (Mí Dheireadh Fómhair) 1967 13. November (Mí na Samhna) 1967 14. December (Mí na Nollag) 1967 15. January (Mí Eanáir) 1968 16. February (Mí Feabhra) 1968 17. March (An Márta) 1968 Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis lively anthropological memoir captures a pivotal moment in the history of Ireland and the revitalization of the Irish language.Table of ContentsPreface Prologue 1. November (Mí na Samhna) 1966 2. December (Mí na Nollag) 1966 3. January (Mí Eanáir) 1967 4. February (Mí Feabhra) 1967 5. March (Mí Márta) 1967 6. April (Mí Aibreáinn) 1967 7. May (Mí Bealtaine) 1967 8. June (Mí Meithimh) 1967 9. July (Mí Lúil) 1967 10. August (Mí Lúnasa) 1967 11. September (Mí Mheán Fómhair) 1967 12. October (Mí Dheireadh Fómhair) 1967 13. November (Mí na Samhna) 1967 14. December (Mí na Nollag) 1967 15. January (Mí Eanáir) 1968 16. February (Mí Feabhra) 1968 17. March (An Márta) 1968 Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLes trois phénomènes bien connus de synonymie, homonymie et polisémie servant de point de départ à cette étude qui vice à tirer au clair le proléme de la signification et linguistique. On y examine quelles sont les implications des méthodes structurale, fonctionnelle ou transformationnelle-générative dans l'analyse de ces trois phénomènes du language. On discute entre autres les idées de Bloomfield, Bréal, Fodor, de Groot, Heger, Hjelmslev, Jakobson, Katz, Kooij, Lyons, Marcus, Martinet, Mounin, Prieto, Saussure, et Ullmann. L'auteur a évité autant que possible toute formalisation et n'utilise ni la logique symbolique ni la quantification mathématique qu'on trouve souvent dans les études linguistiques consacrées à la sémantique. Le livre s'adresse non seulement aux linguisies, mais aussi aux étudiants de langues, et plus spécialement aux étudiants de français qui s'intéressent à la stylistique et aimeraient savoir dans quelle mesure l'analyse sémantique se révèle utile dans la persp

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Book SynopsisNarrative Truthiness explores the complex nature of truth by adapting Stephen Colbert’s concept of truthiness (which on its own repudiates complexity) into something nuanced and positive, what Annjeanette Wiese calls “narrative truthiness.” Narrative truthiness holds on to the importance of facts while complicating them by looking at different types of truth, as well as the complexity, contradictions, and consequences of truth in the context of human experience. Wiese uses narrative theory to analyze several examples of hybrid (non)fiction: works that refuse to exist as either fiction or nonfiction alone and that challenge monolithic definitions of truth. She examines memoirs by Lauren Slater, Michael Ondaatje, Binjamin Wilkomirski, Tim O’Brien; fiction by Julian Barnes, Richard Powers, W. G. Sebald;Onion headlines; comics and graphic memoirs by Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, and David Small; and fake news.Narrative TruthinesTrade Review“Beautifully written, Narrative Truthiness takes the reader on a trip through lies, hoaxes, satire, the search for origins, the fabrication of memories, the construction of the verisimilar, and—through all these narrative modes and themes—the quest for authenticity. Wiese makes a powerful plea in favor of a literary conception of truth that acknowledges the complexity of truth and does not limit it to the accurate presentation of facts, without, however, rejecting any kind of factuality.”—Marie-Laure Ryan, coeditor of Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology “Narrative Truthiness provides a new window into thinking about the interactions between fact and fiction, and how we need one to understand the other, through a focus on texts that straddle the line between representative and fictional narrative. It is well researched and theoretically sophisticated.”—Marjorie Worthington, author of The Story of “Me”: Contemporary American AutofictionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Narrative Truthiness and Hybrid (Non)Fiction Part 1. Autobiography and Memoir 1. Telling What Is True: Truthiness and Figural Truths in Lauren Slater’s Writing 2. In Pursuit of Truth in Life Narrative: Reading Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family 3. Narrative Truthiness and the Author-Reader Contract: The Failure of Binjamin Wilkomirski’s Memoir Fragments Part 2. Fiction 4. Impossible Biographies: Theory and (Non)Fiction in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot 5. Narrative Truthiness, Connectivity, and Factuality in Fiction: The Case of Richard Powers’s Three Farmers 6. Lost (in) History: Fact and Fiction in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz Part 3. Other Genres and Media 7. Satire and Truth: Fake News, the Onion, and the Complex Nature of Narrative Truthiness 8. Conflicting Categories: Graphic Narratives and the Image of Truth Conclusion: An Argument for Narrative Truthiness—Tim O’Brien and Using Complex Narrative to Counter Fake News Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the role food plays in building identities, accounting for the messages food sends about who we are, how we see ourselves, and how we see others. While many volumes examine southern food, this one is the first to focus on food's rhetorical qualities and the effect that it can have on culture.

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Book SynopsisExamines how different memory texts - filmic, landscape, presidential speech, and museums - function both to bolster and question the centrality of murdered white men in the legacy of Freedom Summer.

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Book SynopsisExamines how different memory texts - filmic, landscape, presidential speech, and museums - function both to bolster and question the centrality of murdered white men in the legacy of Freedom Summer.

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Book SynopsisWhile many Black intellectuals and activists seek to provide a justification for Black solidarity, not all agree. In Rethinking Racial Uplift, Nigel Malcolm takes contemporary Black public intellectual discourse seriously and shows that disunity among Blacks, a previously ignored topic, is worth exploring.

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Book SynopsisWhile many Black intellectuals and activists seek to provide a justification for Black solidarity, not all agree. In Rethinking Racial Uplift, Nigel Malcolm takes contemporary Black public intellectual discourse seriously and shows that disunity among Blacks, a previously ignored topic, is worth exploring.

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Book SynopsisHenry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) was a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of America’s earliest Black activists and social reformers, and an outspoken proponent of emigration. Andre Johnson has compiled selected political speeches, sermons, lectures, and religious addresses delivered by Turner in their original form.

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Book SynopsisHenry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) was a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of America’s earliest Black activists and social reformers, and an outspoken proponent of emigration. Andre Johnson has compiled selected political speeches, sermons, lectures, and religious addresses delivered by Turner in their original form.

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Book SynopsisPhilosophy and rhetoric are both old enemies and old friends. In The Rhetorical Sense of Philosophy, Donald Phillip Verene sets out to shift our understanding of the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric from that of separation to one of close association. He outlines how ancient rhetors focused on the impact of language regardless of truth, ancient philosophers utilized language to test truth; and ultimately, this separation of right reasoning from rhetoric has remained intact throughout history. It is time, Verene argues, to reassess this ancient and misunderstood relationship. Verene traces his argument utilizing the writing of ancient and modern authors from Plato and Aristotle to Descartes and Kant; he also explores the quarrel between philosophy and poetry, as well as the nature of speculative philosophy. Verene''s argument culminates in a unique analysis of the frontispiece as a rhetorical device in the works of Hobbes, Vico, and Rousseau. Verene bridges the stuTrade ReviewVerene presents an extended original essay on one of the oldest of philosophical themes, the relationship between rhetoric and philosophy. With great subtlety and enormous erudition, the author challenges the "Platonic quarrel with the poets and the rhetoricians". * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Rhetorical Sense of Philosophy Part I: Prolegomena Philosophiae 1. Philosophical Thinking 2. Philosophy and the Muses 3. Philosophy and Eloquence 4. Philosophical Style Part II: Three Rhetorics 5. The Rhetoric of Self-Discourse 6. The Rhetoric of Absolute Thought 7. The Rhetoric of the Philosophical Frontispiece Epilogue

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Book SynopsisDickens''s Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens''s use of low and slangular (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, Peter J. Capuano considers Dickens''s use of bodily idiomsright-hand man, shoulder to the wheel, nose to the grindstoneagainst the broader lexical backdrop of the nineteenth century. Dickens was famously drawn to the vernacular language of London''s streets, but this book is the first to call attention to how he employed phrases that embody actions, ideas, and social relations for specific narrative and thematic purposes. Focusing on the mid- to late career novels Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, Capuano demonstrates how Dickens came to relish using common idioms in uncommon ways and the

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Book SynopsisTrumpism has not only ushered in a new political regime, but also a new regime of language—one that cries out for intelligent and informed analysis. When Words Trump Politics takes insights from linguistic anthropology and related fields to decode, understand, and ultimately provide non-expert readers with easily digestible tools to resist the politics of division and hate. Adam Hodges's short essays address Trump's Twitter insults, racism and white nationalism, "truthiness" and "alternative facts," #FakeNews and conspiracy theories, Supreme Court politics and #MeToo, Islamophobia, political theater, and many other timely and controversial discussions. Hodges breaks down the specific linguistic techniques and processes that make Trump's rhetoric successful in our contemporary political landscape. He identifies the language ideologies, word choices, and recurring metaphors that underlie Trumpian rhetoric. Trumpian discourse works in tandem with media discourse—Hodges shows how Trump often induces journalists and social media agents to recycle and strengthen his spectacular and misleading claims. Those who study democracy have long emphasized the need for an informed electorate. But being informed on political issues also demands a keen understanding of the way language is used to convey, discuss, debate, and contest those issues. When Words Trump Politics analyzes the political rhetoric of today. The actionable insights in this book give journalists, politicians, and all Americans the successful tools they need to respond to the politics of hate. When Words Trump Politics is an essential resource for political resistance, for anyone who cares about freeing democracy from the spell of demagoguery.Trade Review"This is no ordinary time for language and politics, but Adam Hodges successfully marshals his considerable expertise in linguistic anthropology to bring insight into a political discourse that is often presented by journalists and pundits without this useful framework. Trumpian discourse is overrepresented and yet underanalyzed, and this book highlights the special need to attend to the subversive, anti-democratic use of language Trump has modeled."—Paul V. Kroskrity, University of California, Los Angeles"When Words Trump Politics is a thoroughly insightful account of the president's rhetorical collusion with the dark strains of American public life—its racism, hypernationalism, xenophobia—and his systematic obstructions of truth. When the histories of the political language of this era are written, Hodges' book will be a seminal point of reference."—Geoff Nunberg, University of California, Berkeley"Hodges' book brings together many valuable insights from linguistics and philosophy, offering a quick and rewarding read. Highly recommended!"—David Lanius, Journal of Language and Politics

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Book SynopsisWhen we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 20th century was the age of two devastating world wars, of totalitarian regimes and terrible atrocities like the Holocaust – “the age of extremes,” to use Hobsbawm’s famous phrase. But in this new book, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk argues that we will never understand the 20th century if we focus on events and ideologies. Rather, in his view, the predominant motif of the 20th century is what Badiou called a passion for the real, which manifests itself as the will to actualize the truth directly in the here and now. Drawing on his Spheres trilogy, Sloterdijk interprets the actualization of the real in the 20th century as a passion for economic and technological “antigravitation”. The rise of consumerism and the easing of the burdens of human life by the constant deployment of new technologies have killed off the kind of radicalism that was rooted in the belief that power would rise from a material base of production. If the 20th century can still inspire us today, it is because the fundamental shift that it brought about opened the way for a critique of extremist reason, a post-Marxist theory of enrichment and a general economy of energy resources based on excess and dissipation. While developing his highly original interpretation of the 20th century, Sloterdijk also addresses a series of related topics including the meaning of the Anthropocene, the domestication of humans and the significance of the sea. The volume also includes major new pieces on Derrida and on Heidegger’s politics. This work, by one of the most original thinkers today will appeal to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences, as well as anyone interested in philosophy and critical theory.Table of Contents The Anthropocene - A Stage in the Process on the Margins of the Earth's History? From the Domestication of the Human Being to the Civilizing of Cultures: Answering the Question of Whether Humanity is Capable of Taming Itself The Ocean Experiment: From Nautical Globalization to a General Ecology The Synchronized World: Philosophical Aspects of Globalization What Happened in the 20th Century? Toward a Critique of Extremist Reason The Thinker in the Haunted Castle: On Derrida's Interpretation of Dreams Deep Observation: Towards a Philosophy of the Space Station The Permanent Renaissance: The Italian Novella and News of Modernity Heidegger's Politics: Postponing the End of History Odysseus the Sophist: On the Birth of Philosophy from the Spirit of Travel Stress Almost Sacred Text: Essay on the Constitution The Other Logos, or the Reason of Cunning: On the Intellectual History of the Indirect Editorial Note Notes

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Book SynopsisIn Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H. Uhlig offers a new account of the emergence of literary studies. Most histories of the early years of the field search for unifying origins of literature as a discipline and object of study. Uhlig turns to the decades around 1800 in Europe to reveal that the inception of the literary field was instead defined by intellectual diversity and contestation. He draws on an array of European writers to show how three schools of literary study—rhetoric teaching, theories of poetry, and literary history—emerged and clashed during this time, offering near-contemporaneous, yet divergent, visions of how to understand literature. Rhetoric and poetics thwarted criticism, to different ends, while literary historiography proved institutionally reassuring yet less useful as a tool for textual understanding. Uhlig details how Scottish writers like Adam Smith and Hugh Blair taught rhetoric as a form self-expression, while Anglophone and German theorists of poetry like William Wordsworth, Friedrich Schlegel, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe both engaged with and resented critics. At the same time, varying opinions on the practice of literary history emerged, with Immanuel Kant and Thomas De Quincey arguing for the independence of literature from historical forces while writers like Matthew Arnold approached literature as a means of narrating cultural archives instead of drawing on close reading and analysis. Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography traces current debates in literary studies back to this formative moment, serving as a guide to past and present controversies in the field.Trade Review"An ambitious essay in the history of ideas—one based on lots of close reading and scrupulous attention to the actual positions in the debates examined." * Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary University of London *"This book stands to be of great value to literary studies, both because of the precision it helps introduce into discussions of literary history—suddenly revealed to be an even looser, baggier monster than even far-reaching projects of distant reading have revealed—and because of the compelling microhistories it unearths within the genealogy of literary studies." * Matthew Wickman, Brigham Young University *

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Book SynopsisAuthored by renowned communication and relationship scholar Steve Duck, Rethinking Relationships Through Rhetoric: Coordinating Interpersonal Approaches invites readers to reconsider their assumptions and understanding of relationships. The second edition of the text features a fresh emphasis on rhetoric and its insights into the ways in which individuals use discourse to promote vantage points and opinions or to make arguments or representations that are intended to influence others.The book posits that everyday communication is largely argumentative, propositional, sermonic, and intentionally influential in nature. Readers learn how even mundane communication subtly pitches the views of the speaker towards the listener and invites approval or objection. The text reconsiders the implications of seeing acquaintance as an ongoing, unfinished, and largely communicatively-based activity that is not captured in laboratory snapshots, and so challenges readers to better understand how relationships are formed through series of everyday interactions and active inquiry by listeners rather than "self-disclosure" by speakers. It also explores how cultural influence, the assessment of behaviors, and moral judgements affect everyday interactions and consequently, our relationships.Providing readers with a deep examination of the ways in which individuals practice their relationships and embody them in social spaces, Rethinking Relationships Through Rhetoric is an ideal textbook for advanced courses and graduate programs in interpersonal communication and interpersonal relationships.

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Book SynopsisCritical Questions in Persuasion Research presents students with a refreshing way to study persuasion, communication theory, and human behavior. Rather than examining different types of persuasion research and reviewing each one at a time, communication scholars Franklin J. Boster and Christopher J. Carpenter explore eight key controversies, as well as research and theory related to each topic: What constitutes a strong persuasive message, and does it matter? How do we adapt persuasive messages to diverse audiences? Do persuasive messages have side effects? How can we manage the buzz? How can we maintain attitude change? Can a persuasive message be counterproductive? How can we encourage resistance to persuasion? To what extent does action follow from attitudes? By focusing on how various disciplines deal with the big controversies in the persuasion process, students gain an understanding not only of key ideas and theories, but how the ideas and theories fit together in a meaningful whole. By framing persuasion as a series of critical questions, students learn that social science is a dynamic and exciting way in which to study persuasion.Critical Questions in Persuasion Research is an ideal textbook for courses with focus on persuasion, communication, and human behavior.Trade ReviewThe Boster and Carpenter approach is very unique in that they have chosen topics and organized them in such a way that it walks the reader through the natural progression of a persuasive attempt addressing important issues along the way ... The organization and integrative approach to presenting/teaching persuasion is fantastic and a vast improvement on other persuasion textbooks ... This text presents persuasion in an entirely refreshing and new way that I think will be very attractive to students." —Michael R. Kotowski, Associate Professor, School of Communication Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville"The premise of the book is clever. I appreciate that the theory is clearly central to the book. What is novel is that the authors deliver theory in the context of a broader organizing framework that will make is easy for students to see connections. Rather than a laundry list of theories, students get a sense of the broader questions that theories address and how individual theories fit together in a broader framework. This is a clear strength and distinguishing feature of this text ... This text has very good potential to help students have a more meaningful and informative experience in a persuasion course." —Stephen Rains, Professor of Communication, University of Arizona"In addition to the organization around central questions, a strength of the chapters is their adherence to actual studies and the treatment of central questions as open, rather than closed debates. This is a good textbook for faculty interest in connecting theoretical conclusions more closely to the evidence. In addition, the authors have well contextualized the communicative study of persuasion in other (non-communication) perspectives." —Ryan Goei, Direct of University Honors, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Minnesota Duluth

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Book SynopsisConfronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies How can we tell colonial histories in ways that invite intercultural conversation within humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial domination? Beginning with a famous episode of failed communication from the narrative of the freed slave Olaudah Equiano, The Silence of the Miskito Prince explores this question by looking critically at five concepts frequently used to imagine solutions to the challenges of cross-cultural communication: understanding, cosmopolitanism, piety, reciprocity, and patience. Focusing on the first two centuries of North American colonization, Matt Cohen traces how these five concepts of cross-cultural relations emerged from, and continue to evolve within, colonial dynamics. Through a series of revealing archival explorations, he argues the need for a new vocabulary for the analysis of past interactions drawn from the intellectual and spiritual domains of the colonized, and for a historiographical practice oriented less toward the illusion of complete understanding and scholarly authority and more toward the beliefs and experiences of descendant communities. The Silence of the Miskito Prince argues for new ways of framing scholarly conversations that use past interactions as a site for thinking about intercultural relations today. By investigating the colonial histories of these terms that were assumed to promote inclusion, Cohen offers both a reflection on how we got here and a model of scholarly humility that holds us to our better or worse pasts.Trade Review"I remember the bold, proud, and highfalutin terms we used to toss about in early American studies, so proud of our own ‘discoveries’ and ‘understandings.’ Because that’s the model we inherited. Because we did not know any better. But now we do—thanks to Matt Cohen’s rigorous and powerful remodulation of our scholarly language. This book points us in the direction of better scholarship, by which I mean greater care, awe, patience, and accountability. A model work of literary criticism for our chastened and tender times."—Joanna Brooks, author of Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America’s First Immigrants"The Silence of the Miskito Prince is almost alchemical in its ability to draw new insights from familiar texts. Matt Cohen’s work will be a model for literary scholars, and maybe even some historians, of the power of scholarship that considers the work that words can and cannot do."—Jonathan Beecher Field, Clemson University

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Book SynopsisConfronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies How can we tell colonial histories in ways that invite intercultural conversation within humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial domination? Beginning with a famous episode of failed communication from the narrative of the freed slave Olaudah Equiano, The Silence of the Miskito Prince explores this question by looking critically at five concepts frequently used to imagine solutions to the challenges of cross-cultural communication: understanding, cosmopolitanism, piety, reciprocity, and patience. Focusing on the first two centuries of North American colonization, Matt Cohen traces how these five concepts of cross-cultural relations emerged from, and continue to evolve within, colonial dynamics. Through a series of revealing archival explorations, he argues the need for a new vocabulary for the analysis of past interactions drawn from the intellectual and spiritual domains of the colonized, and for a historiographical practice oriented less toward the illusion of complete understanding and scholarly authority and more toward the beliefs and experiences of descendant communities. The Silence of the Miskito Prince argues for new ways of framing scholarly conversations that use past interactions as a site for thinking about intercultural relations today. By investigating the colonial histories of these terms that were assumed to promote inclusion, Cohen offers both a reflection on how we got here and a model of scholarly humility that holds us to our better or worse pasts.Trade Review"I remember the bold, proud, and highfalutin terms we used to toss about in early American studies, so proud of our own ‘discoveries’ and ‘understandings.’ Because that’s the model we inherited. Because we did not know any better. But now we do—thanks to Matt Cohen’s rigorous and powerful remodulation of our scholarly language. This book points us in the direction of better scholarship, by which I mean greater care, awe, patience, and accountability. A model work of literary criticism for our chastened and tender times."—Joanna Brooks, author of Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America’s First Immigrants"The Silence of the Miskito Prince is almost alchemical in its ability to draw new insights from familiar texts. Matt Cohen’s work will be a model for literary scholars, and maybe even some historians, of the power of scholarship that considers the work that words can and cannot do."—Jonathan Beecher Field, Clemson University

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Book SynopsisRhetorics of Display is a pathbreaking volume that brings together a distinguished group of scholars to assess an increasingly pervasive form of rhetorical activity. Editor Lawrence J. Prelli notes in his introduction that twenty-first century citizens continually confront displays of information and images, from the verbal images of speeches and literature to visual images of film and photography to exhibits in museums to the arrangement of our homes to the merchandising of consumer goods. The volume provides an integrated, comprehensive study of the processes of selecting what to reveal and what to conceal that together constitute the rhetorics of display. Surveying major historical transformations in the relationship between rhetoric and display, this book also identifies the leading themes in relevant scholarship of the past three decades. Seventeen case studies canvass a representative and diverse range of displays - from body piercing to a civil rights memorial to a Titanic exhibition to imagery found in gambling casinos - and examine the ways that phenomena, persons, places, events, identities, communities, and cultures are exhibited before audiences. Collectively the contributors shed light on rhetorics that are nearly ubiquitous in contemporary communication and culture.

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