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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Making Sense
Book SynopsisA New York Times New and Noteworthy BookFrom the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, an adaptation of his wildly popular, often controversial podcast“Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —Sam HarrisSam Harris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author—has been exploring some of the most important questions about the human mind, society, and current events on his podcast, Making Sense. With over one million downloads per episode, these discussions have clearly hit a nerve, frequently walking a tightrope where either host or guest—and sometimes both—lose their footing, but always in search of a greater understanding of the world in which we live. For Harris, honest conversation, no matter how difficult or controversial, represents the only path to moral and intel
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Pearson Education (US) Envision in Depth
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Pearson Education Writers World The
Book SynopsisLynne Gaetz, a professor of English language and literature, has been teaching at the college level for over 20 years. She obtained a masters degree in English literature, as well as a TESL diploma and a college teaching diploma. In addition to the series, The Writer's World, she has written over 30 successful English second language textbooks for college-level students. Her most recent series, containing a separate skills and grammar component, is Avenues. In her spare time, she loves creating art; her preference is mixed media and oil painting. She is also an avid traveler, who intends to visit every continent. Suneeti Phadke has a graduate degree in Russian language and literature, as well as a bachelor of education degree in teaching English as a second language. She has been teaching English language and literature to college students for more than 20 years. She started her writing career around the same time as her teaching career. Her first writing project was to develop correspondence courses for college-level English for the Quebec Ministry of Education. This experience led her to writing academic textbooks for Pearson. Currently, she is also trying her hand at other types of writing, such as short stories and poetry. Table of ContentsBrief Contents Part I: The Writing Process Exploring Developing Revising and Editing Paragraph Patterns Writing the Essay Part II: The Editing Handbook Nouns, Determiners, and Prepositions Pronouns Identifying Subjects and Verbs in Simple Sentences Present and Past Tenses Past Participles Progressive Tenses Other Verb Forms Subject—Verb Agreement Tense Consistency Compound Sentences Complex Sentences Sentence Variety Fragments Run-Ons Faulty Parallel Structure Adjectives and Adverbs Mistakes with Modifiers Exact Language Spelling Commonly Confused Words Commas The Apostrophe Quotation Marks and Capitalization Editing Practice Part III: Reading Strategies and Selections Reading Strategies and Selections Appendix 1: Grammar Appendix 2: Verb Tenses Appendix 3: Combining Ideas in Sentences Appendix 4: Punctuation and Mechanics Appendix 5: Spelling, Grammar, and Vocabulary Logs
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Pearson Education Mosaics Reading and Writing Paragraphs
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Penguin Putnam Inc Letters of Note Love 3
Book SynopsisFrom Napoléon Bonaparte and Frida Kahlo to Nelson Mandela and Ayn Rand glimpse the ardors of artists, painters, writers, and more in this touching volume of beautiful missives, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collectionsBeethoven yearns to see his famously unknown Immortal Beloved. A Victorian farmer proposes marriage to a woman he's never met. Zora Neale Hurston gives her ex-husband relationship advice. Mildred Loving asks the ACLU for help challenging the racist marriage laws of the Jim Crow South. Revealing deep, eternal truths from the heart, this intimate collection of 30 letters traces all of love's incarnations, from first blush and mutual enchantment to unrequited feelings and the ache of passions past. It offers a rare, passionate, and timeless look at what it means to love and be loved.
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OUP India So What
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OUP India Good Writing
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The University of Chicago Press Beyond Words Discourse and Critical Agency in
Book SynopsisExplores how anthropology can come to terms with "colonial library" and begin to develop an ethnographic practice that transcends politics of Africa's imperial past. This book develops a model of critical agency, focusing on a variety of language genres in Africa situated in rituals that transform socio-political relations.Trade Review"A counterintuitive rereading of classic anthropological texts from the colonial archive, Beyond Words proposes a brilliant solution to one of the most pressing intellectual/political issues in African studies today. Responding to trenchant critiques of anthropology's complicity with colonialism and Eurocentric thought, Apter argues that these texts - of Dogon cosmological reflection, of Tswana praise poetry - be reread as critical reflection on power and authority, as vernacular criticism that was history-making rather than history-erasing and politics-averse." - Charles Piot, Duke University"
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The University of Chicago Press The Essential Wayne Booth Emersion Emergent
Book SynopsisWayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism, most notably the 1961 classic The Rhetoric of Fiction. This work illuminates the scope of Booth's rhetorical inquiry: the entire range of resources that human beings share for producing effects on one another.Trade Review"Wayne C. Booth [was] one of the preeminent literary critics of the second half of the twentieth century, whose life-long study of the art of rhetoric illuminated the means by which authors seduce, cajole, and more than occasionally lie to their readers in the service of narrative.... To Professor Booth, literature was not so much words on paper as it was a complex ethical act. He saw the novel as a kind of compact between author and reader: intimate and rewarding, but rarely easy. At the crux of this compact lay rhetoric, the art of verbal persuasion." - Margalit Fox, New York Times"
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The University of Chicago Press Dynamics of Meaning Anaphora Preposition and the
Book SynopsisThis text illustrates how seemingly abstract stances on the nature of meaning can have significant and far-reaching linguistic consequences, leading to the detection of new facts and influencing the understanding of the syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface.Table of ContentsPreface 1: The Two Souls of Discourse Representation Theory 2: Dynamic Binding 3: Extensions: Reconstruction, Topicalization, and Crossover 4: Presuppositions and Definites Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Spaces Worlds Grammar Cognitive Theory of
Book SynopsisThese 12 original papers extend the mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier and demonstrate its utility in solving deep problems in linguistics and discourse theory. The contributors analyze a wide range of phenomena, including analogical counterfactuals and deictic expression.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: Cognitive Links and Domains: Basic Aspects of Mental Space Theory Eve Sweetser, Gilles Fauconnier. 2: Mental Spaces, Constructional Meaning, and Pragmatic Ambiguity Claudia Brugman 3: Analogical Counterfactuals Gilles Fauconnier 4: Sorry, I'm Not Myself Today: The Metaphor System for Conceptualizing the Self George Lakoff 5: Subjective-Change Expressions in Japanese and Their Cognitive and Linguistic Bases Yo Matsumoto 6: Space Accessibility and Mood in Spanish Errapel Mejias-Bikandi 7: Cross-World Continuity and the Polysemy of Adverbial Still Laura A. Michaelis 8: Alternate Grounds in the Interpretation of Deictic Expressions Jo Rubba 9: Roles and Identificational Copular Sentences Shigeru Sakahara 10: Perspective and the Representation of Speech and Thought in Narrative Discourse Jose Sanders, Gisela Redeker. 11: Mental Spaces and the Grammar of Conditional Constructions Eve Sweetser 12: Conceptual Locations for Reference in American Sign Language Karen van Hoek Index
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The University of Chicago Press Secret History of Emotion From Aristotles
Book SynopsisPrincess Diana's death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe. How can we account for this uneven distribution of emotion? Can it simply be explained by the prevailing scientific understanding? Addressing such questions, this title offers a counterpoint to the way we generally understand emotions.Trade Review"With The Secret History of Emotion, Daniel Gross has achieved what I thought impossible: he compresses into these pages a compelling history of emotion from Aristotle to today. His argument that there exists a great tradition of understanding the emotions as a psychosocial phenomenon is cogent, coherent, and interesting from beginning to end. This is a remarkable book." - David Konstan, Brown University"
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The University of Chicago Press Blank Darkness Africanist Discourse in French
Book SynopsisBlank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have . . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world and have called it 'Africa.' There are excellent readings here of writers ranging from Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sade, and Céline to Conrad and Yambo Ouologuem, but even more impressive and important than these individual readings is Mr. Miller's wide-ranging, incisive, and exact analysis of 'Africanist' discourse, what it has been and what it has meant in the literature of the Western world.James Olney, Louisiana State University
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The University of Chicago Press Natural Histories of Discourse
Book SynopsisThis collection of ethnographies demonstrates that the divide between fleeting discursive practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the constructional process reveals culture. The cultural processes of entextualization and contextualization are examined.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments The Natural History of Discourse Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban. 1: Entextualization, Replication, and Power Greg Urban 2: Text from Talk in Tzotzil John B. Haviland 3: The Secret Life of Texts Michael Silverstein 4: "Self"-Centering Narratives Vincent Crapanzano 5: Shadow Conversations: The Indeterminacy of Participant Roles Judith T. Irvine 6: Exorcism and the Description of Participant Roles William F. Hanks 7: Socialization to Text: Structure and Contradiction in Schooled Literacy James Collins 8: Recontextualization as Socialization: Text and Pragmatics in the Law School Classroom Elizabeth Mertz 9: The Construction of an LD Student: A Case Study in the Politics of Representation Hugh Mehan 10: National Spirit or the Breath of Nature? The Expropriation of Folk Positivism in the Discourse of Greek Nationalism Michael Herzfeld 11: Transformations of the Word in the Production of Mexican Festival Drama Richard Bauman Codafication [sic] Greg Urban, Michael Silverstein. List of Contributors Index
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The University of Chicago Press Sweet Reason Rhetoric the Discourses of
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a rhetorical model for understanding the diverse discourses of modernity. Wells describes modernity as a system of texts which we are only now learning to read and offers a rhetoric based on an understanding of meaning as intersubjectivity created through the work of language.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Reading Ronell
Book SynopsisA scintillating exploration of the responsibility of reading in Avital Ronell's workTrade Review"This collection of energetic essays engages the writing of Avital Ronell while contributing fresh, sophisticated thinking to such fields as philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, and literary criticism. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"By assembling essays by eminent scholars from a wide range of fields, this volume stages an engagement with Avital Ronell that, stimulated by her dazzlingly capacious intellectual and aesthetic imagination, bears on many of the most important topics in the humanities today."--Frederick M. Dolan, coeditor of Between Terror and Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, and Fiction Speak of ModernityTable of ContentsList of contributors; Editor's introduction; 1. Addressee: Avital - Jean-Luc Nancy; 2. Ronell as Gay Scientist - Judith Butler; 3. The Courage of the Critic: Avital Ronell and the Idea of Emergence - Peter Fenves; 4. Conference Call: Ronell, Heidegger, Oppen - Susan Bernstein; 5. Take Me to Your Reader - Laurence A. Rickels; 6. Uncalled: A Note on Kafka's Test - Werner Hamacher; 7. Avital Ronell's Body Politics - Elissa Marder; 8. Serial - A poem by Pierre Alferi; 9. War Bodies - Gil Anidjar; 10.The Indefinite Article or the Love of a Phrase - Samuel Weber; 11. Learning Impossibility: Pedagogy, Aporia, Ethics - Shireen R.K. Patell; 12. Testing Existence, Exacting Thought: Reading Ronell with Deleuze - Hent de Vries; 13. The Problems of a Generation: Thinking and Thanking Zwang and Drang - Thomas Pepper; 14. Roaming (Dis)Charges: Catastrophe of the Liquid Oozing - Tom Cohen; 15. "Vectorizing Our Thoughts Toward 'Current Events' ": For Avital Ronell - Elisabeth Weber
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MIT Press Ltd And Conjunction Reduction Redux The MIT Press
Book SynopsisA bold argument that “and” always means “&,” the truth-functional sentential connective.In this book, Barry Schein argues that “and” is always the sentential logical connective with the same, one, meaning. “And” always means “&,” across the varied constructions in which it is tokened in natural language. Schein examines the constructions that challenge his thesis, and shows that the objections disappear when these constructions are translated into Eventish, a neo-Davidsonian event semantics, and, enlarged with Cinerama Semantics, a vocabulary for spatial orientation and navigation. Besides rescuing “and” from ambiguity, Eventish and Cinerama Semantics solve general puzzles of grammar and meaning unrelated to conjunction, revealing the book's central thesis in the process: aspects of meaning mistakenly attributed to “and” are discovered to reflect neighboring structures previously unseen and un
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MIT Press Ltd Natural Language Semantics Formation and
Book SynopsisAn introduction to natural language semantics that offers an overview of the empirical domain and an explanation of the mathematical concepts that underpin the discipline.This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of those approaches to natural language semantics that use the insights of logic. Many other texts on the subject focus on presenting a particular theory of natural language semantics. This text instead offers an overview of the empirical domain (drawn largely from standard descriptive grammars of English) as well as the mathematical tools that are applied to it. Readers are shown where the concepts of logic apply, where they fail to apply, and where they might apply, if suitably adjusted. The presentation of logic is completely self-contained, with concepts of logic used in the book presented in all the necessary detail. This includes propositional logic, first order predicate logic, generalized quantifier theory, and the Lambek an
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MIT Press What It All Means Semantics for Almost Everything
Book SynopsisHow meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music—and how meaning is connected to truth.We communicate through language, connecting what we mean to the words we say. But humans convey meaning in other ways as well, with facial expressions, hand gestures, and other methods. Animals, too, can get their meanings across without words. In What It All Means, linguist Philippe Schlenker explains how meaning works, from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from gestures to music. He shows that these extraordinarily diverse types of meaning can be studied and compared within a unified approach—one in which the notion of truth plays a central role. “It’s just semantics” is often said dismissively. But Schlenker shows that semantics—the study of meaning—is an unsung success of modern linguistics, a way to inv
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MIT Press Cynicism
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University of Washington Press The Linguistics of Lying And Other Essays
Book SynopsisBrings thinking about semantics to bear on the question of how, and how much, language corresponds to thought. This title argues that lying is a function not of words but of sentences; it belongs to the semantic aspect of language. It forges links between linguistic and literary categories on the one hand and ethics and good manners on the other.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Linguistics of Lying Jonah’s Sign: On the Very Large and the Very Small in Literature Politeness, an Affair of Honor Politeness and Sincerity The Style Is the Man Is the Devil
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Yale University Press Seamos pragmaticos Lets Be Pragmatic
Book SynopsisSeamos pragmaticos, written specifically for English-speaking students of Spanish, offers a practical introduction to Spanish pragmatics for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses.
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Random House USA Inc Writing the Mind Alive The Proprioceptive Method
Book SynopsisDiscover the revolutionary writing practice that can transform your life!In 1976, Linda Trichter Metcalf, then a university English professor, sat down with pen and paper and intuitively started a self-guided writing practice that helped to bring herself into focus and clarify her life as never before. She and a colleague, Tobin Simon, introduced this original method into their classrooms. They experienced such solid response from their students that, for the last twenty-five years, they have devoted themselves to teaching what has now become the respected practice of Proprioceptive Writing®-in workshops, secondary and elementary schools, and college psychology and writing classes around the country, among them the New School University.“Proprioception” comes from the Latin proprius, meaning “one’s own,” and this writing method helps synthesize emotion and imagination, generating authentic insight and catharsis. Pr
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W. W. Norton & Company The Loom of Language An Approach to the Mastery
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W. W. Norton & Company The Norton Field Guide to Writing With Handbook
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The University of Michigan Press Critical and CorpusBased Approaches to
Book SynopsisExplores critical and corpus-based perspectives on intercultural rhetoric. Chapters examine what is meant by “culture” and how that affects research and pedagogy, particularly with regard to new forms of literacy. The contents of this book are situated within a tradition of inquiry that has developed since Kaplan’s famous 1966 article while at the same time exploring new areas of interest.
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The University of Michigan Press Discourse Analysis in the Language Classroom v. 1
Book SynopsisCurrent methodological research has found that in order for learners to acquire language that is both linguistically accurate and socially appropriate, their awareness of patterns and of what is systematic about language must be developed. In Discourse Analysis in the Language Classroom, Heidi Riggenbach has compiled activities that will foster this awareness by putting students in the role of discourse analysts and language researchers so that they may learn the patterns and systems for themselves. This book is intended for ESL/EFL teachers who wish to have a better understanding of discourse analysis as it applies to the language classroom and who need to design courses and materials with the goal of developing students' skills as researchers in acquiring their new language. The book includes: an overview of discourse analysis and its relevance to language teachers and learners; background material on the interesting features pertaining to oral language skills; presentation of te
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Discourse Analysis in the Language Classroom
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Northwestern University Press Opposing Poetries Issues and Institutions Pt 1
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on the state of contemporary experimental poetry.Table of ContentsCriticism and the crisis in American poetry; opposing poetry; poetry readings and the contemporary canon; the politics of form and poetry's other subjects - reading contemporary American poetry; experimentation and politics - contemporary poetry as commodity; thinking made in the mouth - the cultural politics of David Antin and Jerome; Rothenberg; anthologies, poetry and postmodernism.
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Northwestern University Press Opposing Poetries Readings Pt 2 Avantgarde and
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on the state of contemporary experimental poetry.Table of ContentsOutlaw to classic - the poetry of Charles Berstein and Ron Silliman; language writing, or literary history and the strange case of the two Dr Williamses; a reading of Lyn Hejinian's ""My life""; ""Travelling many direction'd crossings"" - on the poetry of Rachel Blaue DuPleiss; ""Singing into the draft"" - Susan Howe's textual frontiers; partial to error - Joan Retallack's ""Errata suite""; ""To make equality less drab"" - the writing of Bruce Andrews; thinking about it - David Antin's ""Selected poems 1963-1973""; mouth to mouth - Douglas Messerli's ""Maxims from my mother's milk/Hymns to him - a dialogue""; Charles Berstein's ""Dark city"" - Polis, policy and the policing of poetry; atomic epistemology and consituent knowledge - James Sherry's ""Our nuclear heritage""; reading and writing Ron Silliman's ""Demo to ink"".
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Ohio State University Press Narrative Discourse Authors and Narrators in
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Ohio State University Press Language Files
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The University of Alabama Press The House of My Sojourn Rhetoric Women and the
Book SynopsisEmploying the trope of architecture, this envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within. It’s central argument is that all attempts to include women in rhetoric exclude them from meaningful authority in due course, and this exclusion has been built into the foundations of rhetoric.Employing the trope of architecture, Jane Sutton envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within. Sutton’s central argument is that all attempts to include women in rhetoric exclude them from meaningful authority in due course, and this exclusion has been built into the foundations of rhetoric.
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University of Alabama Press Democracys Lot Rhetoric Publics and the Places of
Book SynopsisOffers an incisive exploration of the limitations and possibilities of democratic discourse for resolving conflicts in urban communities. Candice Rai roots her study of democratic politics and publics in a range of urban case studies focused on public art, community policing, and urban development.Trade Review“Democracy’s Lot is one of the most interesting, original, and important studies I have read in a long time. Not only a fascinating story about gentrification and resistance in the contemporary North American city, it’s also a model of original sociological research, using a methodology the author calls ‘rhetorical ethnography,’ which combines the deep, sustained, social immersion of ethnography with the detailed, critical discourse analysis of rhetoric. Above all, Rai makes a timely, ground-breaking intervention into the study of contemporary democracy, putting the lie to both uncritical celebrations of free and open public spheres and radical critiques of democracy in the era of neoliberalism.” —David Fleming, author of City of Rhetoric: Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America""Candice Rai presents an innovative methodological framework that employs textual analysis and fieldwork to study the interactions of housing debates, street protests, public art, visceral bodily responses, and new media technologies. Fieldwork presents an exciting opportunity to expand the field of inquiry for rhetorical scholarship that typically lies outside of our reach. However, Rai adds to and extends this line of inquiry by drawing explicit connections between text-centered rhetorical themes and concepts (like topoi) and the field as a place of rhetorical practice.” —Robert Asen, coeditor of Public Modalities: Rhetoric, Culture, Media, and the Shape of Public Life
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The University of Alabama Press The Politics of the Superficial Visual Rhetoric
Book SynopsisExplores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. Wide-ranging and stimulating, The Politics of the Superficial posits that contemporary visual culture offers the possibility for politically engaged communication and persuasion while simultaneously threatening the health of public discourse by atomizing its constituent parts.
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The University of Alabama Press Scalia v Scalia Opportunistic Textualism in
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the discrepancy between the ways Antonin Scalia argued the Constitution should be interpreted versus how he actually interpreted the law. This volume examines Scalia's discussions of textualism in his speeches, extrajudicial writings, and judicial opinions. Throughout his writings, Scalia argues textualism is the only acceptable form of constitutional interpretation.Trade ReviewNo scholar before Langford has systematically analyzed every one of Scalia's opinions in the three constitutional territories explored in Scalia v. Scalia - Eighth Amendment ‘Cruel and Unusual' doctrine, First Amendment ‘Establishment' and ‘Free Exercise' doctrine, and abortion doctrine. Langford's new contribution should interest legal academics and rhetorical scholars alike."" - Colin Starger, associate professor of law at the University of Baltimore
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The University of Alabama Press Lives Letters and Quilts Women and Everyday
Book SynopsisApplies a translingual and transmodal framework informed by feminist rhetorical practice to three distinct case studies that demonstrate women using unique and effective rhetorical strategies in political, religious, and artistic contexts.Trade ReviewLives, Letters, and Quilts is an engaging read. The case study chapters provide interesting background and analysis, and as a study of quotidian forms of rhetorical resistance, this book makes a valuable contribution." - Robert E. Terrill, author of Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment and Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of CitizenshipTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. (Un)Conventional Means: Recontextualizing Everyday Rhetorics of Resistance Chapter 1. The Pen as Sword: The Townsend Letter-Writing Campaigns and the Case of Pearl Burkhalter Chapter 2. With Pen and Prayer: The Life and Ministry of Eliza P. Gurney Chapter 3. 'The Needle as the Pen': Recontextualizing the Discourses of Quilts and Quiltmaking Conclusion. 'What Is This Thing You Call a Pen?': The Courage of Ordinary Americans Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Alabama Press Architects of Memory Information and Rhetoric in
Book SynopsisProbes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency. Nathan Johnson charts turning points where concepts of memory became durable in new computational technologies and modern memory infrastructures took hold.Trade ReviewArchitects of Memory is poised to make an original and important contribution to the interdisciplinary study of the rhetorics of public memory and information science. Johnson is at his best when illuminating the actual techniques of public memory - the hard, everyday material ways in which key arbiters organize public memory." - Timothy Barney, author of Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America's International PowerTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Building Memory's Infrastructure Chapter 2. A Universal Memory Machine Intermezzo: Exorcising the Library Spirit: Library Labor as a TechnÊ of Memory Chapter 3. Hybrid Memory Labor Intermezzo: Calvin Mooers's Zatocodes Chapter 4. Memory Conflicts Intermezzo: Dorothy Crosland's Book Truck Chapter 5. Memory's Coin Chapter 6. Memory's Infrastructure Notes References Index
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The University of Alabama Press Decoding the Digital Church
Book SynopsisOffers a fresh perspective on the study of religion and politics and stems from the author's personal interest in the ways her experiences with believers differ from how scholars often frame this group's rationale and behaviours.Trade ReviewDecoding the Digital Church offers a compelling and readable analysis of evangelical sermons around contemporary politics from the 2008 recession through the Trump election. For newcomers to religious rhetoric, this book will surely provide an accessible introduction to the mystifying relationship between evangelicals and Republican politics." - Kristy Maddux, author of The Faithful Citizen: Popular Christian Media and Gendered Civic IdentitiesTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Evangelicals and the Continuous Reawakening to the Greatest Story Ever Told Chapter 2. Rhetorical Criticism: Going to Church in My Pajamas Chapter 3. America Is (Still) Great Chapter 4. Don't Worry, Be Happy—But God Wants You to Vote Chapter 5. Do Unto Others? Chapter 6. #MeToo Goes to Church Conclusion Appendix A. Rhetorical Sample of Sermons from the Great Recession and Recovery Appendix B. Rhetorical Sample of Sermons from the Presidential Campaign of 2016 Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Alabama Press Cookery Food Rhetorics and Social Production
Book SynopsisThe rhetoric of food is more than just words about food, and food is more than just edible matter. Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production explores how food mediates both rhetorical influence and material life through the overlapping concepts of invention and production.Trade ReviewCookery contributes to the fields of rhetoric a sophisticated mapping of how our consummatory pleasures are enmeshed in symbolic significance, including those moments where what is legible as food, desire, and satiation exceeds extant frames of meaning and feeling." - Isaac West, author of Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the LawTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Soiled Donovan Conley and Justin Eckstein 1. Brewing Influence: The Mixology of Morals Katie Dickman and Nathaniel A. Rivers 2. The Terroir and Topoi of the Lowcountry Anna Marjorie Young and Justin Eckstein 3. Food Pornography Casey R. Kelly 4. Rhetorically Strange Foods Jeff Rice 5. More than a Membrane Donovan Conley Afterword Greg Dickinson References Contributors Index
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Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers Classical Mythology More A Reader Workbook
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Michigan State University Press Angelina Grimke Rhetoric Identity and the Radical
Book SynopsisThis work provides an understanding of Grimke's purposeful engagement of the rhetoric of confrontation, her rhetorical use of violence in antislavery discourse, and her emergence as a witness to the moral truths of her time.
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Michigan State University Press Rostow Kennedy and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid
Book SynopsisThis work analyzes the influence of the economic historian Walt Whitman Rostow's theory of the stages of economic growth on US foreign policy during the 1950s and 1960s. It culminates in a case study of Rostow's influence on President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress to develop Latin America.
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Michigan State University Press Visions of Poverty Asen Robert Assistant
Book SynopsisTo understand the welfare policy debates of the last half of the 20th century, the various images of poor people that were present must be considered. This work explores these images and the policy debates of the retrenchment era, recounting the ways in which images of the poor appeared.
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Michigan State University Press The Political Style of Conspiracy Chase Sumner
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the concept and reality of 'slave power' in the rhetorical discourse of the mid-nineteenth-century, in particular the speeches and writing of politicians Salmon P. Chase, Charles Sumner, and Abraham Lincoln. The author and reveals that there is a paranoid style of conspiracy rhetoric that inhabits the margins of political life.
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Michigan State University Press Rhetorical Vectors of Memory in National and
Book SynopsisThe twentieth-century Holocaust has become a defining event in many histories. This work reviews how national and international courts have used Holocaust trials as forums for debates about individuated justice, historical record keeping, and pedagogical memory work.
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Michigan State University Press Rhetoric and Democracy Pedagogical and Political
Book SynopsisExamines the complex relationship between rhetoric and democracy by demonstrating how rhetorical pedagogy, rhetorical practice, and rhetorical analysis support the creation of useful discourse among citizens. This book is suitable students and scholars of rhetoric, especially in considering the birth, growth, and future of the discipline.
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Michigan State University Press The Rhetoric of Nineteenthcentury Reform 5
Book SynopsisThe ideas of social Darwinism accorded well with American beliefs that were derived from Puritanism, especially the idea that anyone could enjoy economic success if only she or he worked hard enough. This volume explores how that theme permeated public advocacy during the Gilded Age.
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