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Penguin Publishing Group The New Diary How to Use a Journal for
Book SynopsisThe New Diary is about a completely modern concept of journal writing. It has little to do with the rigid daily calendar diary you may have kept as a child or the factual travelogue you wrote to recall the Grand Canyon. Instead, it is a tool for tapping the full power of your inner resources.The New Diary is as much for those who already keep a journal as it is for those who have never kept one. It does not tell you the right way to keep a diary; rather, it offers numerous possibilities for using the diary to achieve your own purposes. It is a place for you to clarify goals, visualize the future, and focus your engergies; a means of freeing your intuition and imagination; a workbook for exploring your dreams, your past, and your present life. It is for everyone seeking concrete methods for dealing with personal problems. It is for women and men interested in achieving self-reliance and inner liberation, for artists and writers seeking new techniques f
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Applied Linguistics and Politics
Book SynopsisChristian W. Chun is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.Trade ReviewThis excellent volume brings together an impressive assembly of scholars from around the world to explore a range of contexts relevant to the study of language and politics, from media, to economics, to education. Each contribution stands as a dramatic reminder of the relevance of Applied Linguistics to the precarious political moment we find ourselves in. * Rodney H. Jones, Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Reading, UK *At a time when many of us are bewildered and dismayed by the political terrain we find ourselves navigating, Chun has assembled an international gathering of extraordinary, insightful scholars, including the now-late Jan Blommaert, who offer analyses of languaging and discourse practices across a shockingly broad array of (often under-researched) communities and realms and shed much-needed clarity on the crucial question of how the work of applied linguists can change the political conditions of lives.” * Suhanthie Motha, Associate Professor, English Department, University of Washington, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) Part I. Media 1. Political Discourse in Post-Digital Societies, Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) 2. Populism as a Mediatized Communicative Relation: The Birth of Algorithmic Populism, I.E.L.(Ico) Maly (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) Part II. Economy 3. Audit as Genre, Migration Industries, and Neoliberalism’s Uptakes, Alfonso Del Percio (University College London, UK) 4. The Politics of Migrant Economies: Applied Linguistics looking into Thai Massage in Vienna, Mi-Cha Flubacher (University of Vienna, Austria) 5. The Perceiving Subject of Irregular Employment: Applied Linguistics, Precarity, and Capitalism, Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore) Part III. Culture and Identity 6. The Politics of Culture, Claire Kramsch (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 7. Biopolitics and Intersex Human Rights: A Role for Applied Linguistics, Brian W. King (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Part IV. Affect 8. Wash your Hands! Domestic Labour and the Affective Economy of Racial Capitalism, Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 9. Politics of Commemoration and Memory, John E. Richardson (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia) and Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Part V. Education 10. Language, Pedagogy, and Discourses of Criticality in Late Capitalism, Carlos Soto (University of Hong Kong) 11. Organic Intellectuals or Traditional Intellectuals: Critical Discourse for Whom?, Christian W. Chun (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) Index
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Basic Books Words Like Loaded Pistols: The Power of Rhetoric
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Discourse and Cognition: Bridging the Gap
Book SynopsisThis volume has brought together research from both 'cognitive' and 'functional' approaches to linguistics. The collection includes work from cognitive science disciplines whose concerns overlap with linguistics, such as artificial intelligence, neurolinguistics and psychology. Despite their diversity, the papers in this volume are all inspired by the same fundamental question: to what extent is the structure of languages affected by human cognitive structures and language use? This book will appeal to graduate students, professors, and researchers - in particular, cognitive and functional linguists; psychologists; and artificial intelligence scholars.Table of Contents1. On sentence accent in information; 2. Conceptual integration in counterfactuals; 3. Sequencing mental spaces in an ASL narrative; Semantic Principles of Predication; 4. From hypothetical to factual and beyond: 5. Refutational si- clauses in Spanish conversation; 6. Meaning and context: German Aber and Sondern; 7. A non-syntactic account of some asymmetries in the double object construction; 8. Viewpoint shifts in narrative; 9. Psycholinguistic studies of entrenchment; 9. Prototype theory and covert gender in Turkish; 10. An AI system for metaphorical reasoning about mental states in discourse; 11. The conceptual basis of number marking in Brazilian Portuguese; Metaphoric gestures and some of their relations to verbal metaphoric expressions; Principles of conceptual integration; Reference frames: an application to imparfait; Bound spaces, Starting points, and settings; Space and time in the semantics of the Finnish case system; Locating linguistic variation in semantic templates; The distribution of generic objects: Lexical semantics vs. pragmatics; On subjectification and grammaticization; Conceptual metaphor in mathematics; The relation between grammaticalization and event structure metaphor: Evidence from Uighur auxiliation; Blending and other conceptual operations in the interpretation of mathematical proofs; Three grammaticalization paths for the development of person verbal agreement in Hebrew; The pragmatics of precision: geometric and non-geometric periphrastic progressives in modern English; The 'conduit metaphor' revisited: a reassessment of metaphors for Communication; Conceptual dependency and the clausal structure of discourse.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Discourse and Cognition: Bridging the Gap
Book SynopsisThis volume has brought together research from both 'cognitive' and 'functional' approaches to linguistics. The collection includes work from cognitive science disciplines whose concerns overlap with linguistics, such as artificial intelligence, neurolinguistics and psychology. Despite their diversity, the papers in this volume are all inspired by the same fundamental question: to what extent is the structure of languages affected by human cognitive structures and language use? This book will appeal to graduate students, professors, and researchers - in particular, cognitive and functional linguists; psychologists; and artificial intelligence scholars.Table of Contents1. On sentence accent in information; 2. Conceptual integration in counterfactuals; 3. Sequencing mental spaces in an ASL narrative; Semantic Principles of Predication; 4. From hypothetical to factual and beyond: 5. Refutational si- clauses in Spanish conversation; 6. Meaning and context: German Aber and Sondern; 7. A non-syntactic account of some asymmetries in the double object construction; 8. Viewpoint shifts in narrative; 9. Psycholinguistic studies of entrenchment; 9. Prototype theory and covert gender in Turkish; 10. An AI system for metaphorical reasoning about mental states in discourse; 11. The conceptual basis of number marking in Brazilian Portuguese; Metaphoric gestures and some of their relations to verbal metaphoric expressions; Principles of conceptual integration; Reference frames: an application to imparfait; Bound spaces, Starting points, and settings; Space and time in the semantics of the Finnish case system; Locating linguistic variation in semantic templates; The distribution of generic objects: Lexical semantics vs. pragmatics; On subjectification and grammaticization; Conceptual metaphor in mathematics; The relation between grammaticalization and event structure metaphor: Evidence from Uighur auxiliation; Blending and other conceptual operations in the interpretation of mathematical proofs; Three grammaticalization paths for the development of person verbal agreement in Hebrew; The pragmatics of precision: geometric and non-geometric periphrastic progressives in modern English; The 'conduit metaphor' revisited: a reassessment of metaphors for Communication; Conceptual dependency and the clausal structure of discourse.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Presupposition and Anaphora
Book SynopsisIn this book, two related phenomena are studied: presupposition and anaphora. Dynamic semantics is by now widely accepted as a first-rate foundation for such an exercise and it forms the backbone of most of the work in this book. A recurring additional theme of the present book is the usefulness of techniques from partial logic in the treatment of both phenomena. Rather than adding completely new semantic theories to the present gamut of theories, the author discusses a number of existing approaches which aim at accounting for the behavior of presuppositions and/or anaphors, makes improvements where necessary, and compares the results. Presupposition and Anaphora starts with an introduction to a number of dynamic semantic theories and their correlations, paying special attention to the treatment of disjunctions and negations. Subsequently, presuppositions are studied in the context of partial logics, Montague Grammar and dynamic semantics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introductuion; 2. Anaphora and discourse semantics; 3. Negation and disjunction in DRT; 4. Presupposition and partiality; 5. Presupposition and montague grammar; 6. Presupposition and discourse semantics; 7. Presupposition and determindness; 8. Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Subject index; Name index.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Metaphorically Speaking
Book SynopsisOne of the most fundamental tasks of a theory of metaphor is to explain what any given metaphorical utterance says in a way that is compatible with the framework provided by philosophy. Using clear language, this book provides a theory of metaphor in terms of reconceptualization that is compatible with current trends in cognitive linguistics, while being philosophically rigorous in that it remains true to the fundamental philosophical insights into such notions as those of 'meaning' and 'content'. As such, this work serves as a bridge between philosophy and linguistics in the study of natural language. It also provides a detailed critique of respected theories of metaphor, showing how they fall into two camps depending on their account of metaphorical content, and compiling a list of phenomena any theory of metaphor (and thus model of natural language processing) must address.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Against metaphor as meaning; 2. Metaphor as use; 3. An alternative analysis; Bibliography.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Metaphorically Speaking
Book SynopsisOne of the most fundamental tasks of a theory of metaphor is to explain what any given metaphorical utterance says in a way that is compatible with the framework provided by philosophy. Using clear language, this book provides a theory of metaphor in terms of reconceptualization that is compatible with current trends in cognitive linguistics, while being philosophically rigorous in that it remains true to the fundamental philosophical insights into such notions as those of 'meaning' and 'content'. As such, this work serves as a bridge between philosophy and linguistics in the study of natural language. It also provides a detailed critique of respected theories of metaphor, showing how they fall into two camps depending on their account of metaphorical content, and compiling a list of phenomena any theory of metaphor (and thus model of natural language processing) must address.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Against metaphor as meaning; 2. Metaphor as use; 3. An alternative analysis; Bibliography.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Strong Generative Capacity: The Semantics of
Book SynopsisThe concept of 'strong generative capacity' (SGC) of a linguistic formalism was introduced by Chomsky in the early sixties in order to characterize descriptive capacity. However, the original definition proposed by Chomsky turned out to be unusable, especially when one wished to compare the SGC of different types of formalisms. This book provides for the first time a rigorous and useful characterization of SGC, defining it as the model theoretic semantics of linguistic formalism. Specifically, abstract interpretation domains are defined in theory-neutral set-theoretical terms, and the SGC of a theory with respect to a given interpretation domain is characterized as the range of a specific interpretation function mapping structural descriptions of that theory into elements of that domain. Interpretation domains are defined for such notions as labeled constituency, dependency, endocentricity and linking and applied to the analysis of a range of linguistic formalisms, among which context-free grammars, dependency grammars, X-bar grammars, tree-adjoining grammars, transformational grammars and categorial grammars.Table of Contents1. Classical definitions of weak and strong generative capacity; 2. Constituency, dependency, labeling and ordering; 3. Strong generative capacity: the semantics of linguistic formalism; 4. Constituency, dependency, ordering, and endocentricity in phrase structure grammars; 5. Aspects of the strong generative capacity of categorial grammars; 6. Linking systems; 7. Conclusion; References.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Strong Generative Capacity: The Semantics of
Book SynopsisThe concept of 'strong generative capacity' (SGC) of a linguistic formalism was introduced by Chomsky in the early sixties in order to characterize descriptive capacity. However, the original definition proposed by Chomsky turned out to be unusable, especially when one wished to compare the SGC of different types of formalisms. This book provides for the first time a rigorous and useful characterization of SGC, defining it as the model theoretic semantics of linguistic formalism. Specifically, abstract interpretation domains are defined in theory-neutral set-theoretical terms, and the SGC of a theory with respect to a given interpretation domain is characterized as the range of a specific interpretation function mapping structural descriptions of that theory into elements of that domain. Interpretation domains are defined for such notions as labeled constituency, dependency, endocentricity and linking and applied to the analysis of a range of linguistic formalisms, among which context-free grammars, dependency grammars, X-bar grammars, tree-adjoining grammars, transformational grammars and categorial grammars.Table of Contents1. Classical definitions of weak and strong generative capacity; 2. Constituency, dependency, labeling and ordering; 3. Strong generative capacity: the semantics of linguistic formalism; 4. Constituency, dependency, ordering, and endocentricity in phrase structure grammars; 5. Aspects of the strong generative capacity of categorial grammars; 6. Linking systems; 7. Conclusion; References.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information The Problem of the Essential Indexical
Book SynopsisThis book includes famous papers such as 'The Problem of the Essential Indexical' and 'Frege on Demonstratives' and 'Cognitive Significance and New Theories of Reference'; papers co-authored with Mark Crimmins ('The Prince and the Phone Booth') and David Israel ('Fodor on Psychological Explanations') and related papers on situation semantics, direct reference, and the structure of belief. Perry has added 'afterwords' that discuss responses to his work by Gareth Evans, Robert Stalnaker, Barbara Partee, Howard Wettstein and others. The word 'I' is called an 'indexical' which means who it stands for depends on who says it, not just on its meaning. Other indexicals are 'you', 'here' and 'now'. Perry discusses how these words work, and why they express important philosophical thoughts. He claims that indexicals pose a challenge to traditional assumptions about language and thought, and for that reason a number of these papers sparked lively debates.Table of Contents1. Indexicals, contexts and unarticulated constituents; 2. Reality without reference; 3. Evading the slingshot; 4. Broadening the mind; 5. Myself and I; 6. Reflexivity, indexicality and names; 7. Rip Van Winkle and other characters; 8. Frege on demonstratives; 9. The problem of the essential indexical; 10. Belief and acceptance; 11. A problem about continued belief; 12. Castandeda on he and I; 13. Perception, action, and the structure of believing; 14. From worlds to situations; 15. Possible worlds to situations; 16. Circumstantial attitudes and benevolent cognition; 17. Thought without representation; 18. Cognitive significance and new theories of reference; 19. The prince and the phone booth; 20. Individuals in Informational and Intentional content; 21. Fodor and psychological explanations; References; Index.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 9
Book SynopsisJapanese and Korean are typologically quite similar, so a linguistic phenomenon in one language often has a counterpart in the other. The papers in this volume are intended to further compare and/or contrast research in both languages. This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 9th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Ohio 1999. Some papers explore the historical roots of japanese linguistics and its impact on modern day Japanese and Korean, others investigate the languages' vowel and consonant systems. Contributors also discuss the importance of syllable structure, difficulties in possession construction, acquisition of passive construction in Japanese, and the influence of sentence structure on the interpretation of Korean words.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Beyond Alternations
Book SynopsisBeyond Alternations provides a unified account of the semantic effects of the German applicative ("be-") construction. Using natural data from a varietyof corpora, the authors propose that this pattern is inherently meaningful and that its meaning provides the basis for creative extensions.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information The Construction of Meaning
Book SynopsisThis volume collects leading-edge work on the semantics and pragmatics of natural language, including contributions from Eve Clark, Paul Kiparsky, Stanley Peters, Dag Westerstahl and Arnold M. Zwicky. The research covers a number of languages - English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean and Quechua - and phenomena, including adverbial modification, classifiers, constructional meaning, control phenomena, evidentiality, events semantics, focus, presupposition, and quantification. This is a valuable volume for anyone interested in the latest developments in the study of meaning.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Discontinuous NPs in German: A Case Study of the
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the occurrence of discontinuous noun phrases, arguing that many of the factors that previous literature has tried to explain in terms of syntactic restrictions on movement are in fact derivable from discourse factors. De Kuthy's HPSG and information-structure analyses provide an exemplary argument for rethinking the division of labour between syntax theory and a theory of discourse.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Flexible Semantics for Reinterpretation Phenomena
Book SynopsisDeriving the correct meaning of such colloquial expressions as "I am parked out back" requires a unique interaction of knowledge about the world with a person's natural language tools. In this volume, Markus Egg examines how natural language rules and knowledge of the world work together to produce correct understandings of expressions that cannot be fully understood through literal reading. An in-depth and exciting work on semantics and natural language, this volume will be essential reading for scholars in computational linguistics.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Flexible Semantics for Reinterpretation Phenomena
Book SynopsisDeriving the correct meaning of such colloquial expressions as "I am parked out back" requires a unique interaction of knowledge about the world with a person's natural language tools. In this volume, Markus Egg examines how natural language rules and knowledge of the world work together to produce correct understandings of expressions that cannot be fully understood through literal reading. An in-depth and exciting work on semantics and natural language, this volume will be essential reading for scholars in computational linguistics.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Lexical Semantics in LFG
Book SynopsisAvailable for the first time in years, "Lexical Semantics in LFG" is a reissue of the groundbreaking "Papers in Lexical Functional Grammar." It spans a diverse range of topics, including Italian unaccusatives, Malayalam causatives, derived nominals, resultatives, and non-nominative subjects in Icelandic. With its emphasis on representations of lexical semantic information that allow operations on predicate-argument relations and grammatical relations to be independent of structural configurations, the text will be of interest to both scholars and students of linguistics.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Optimal Communication
Book SynopsisThis volume explores how the effectiveness of communication is shaped by aspects of semantics and pragmatics such as compositionality, the roles of the speaker and hearer, and the acquisition of meaning. "Optimal Communication" surveys recent research in the fields of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and draws from optimality theory to argue that optimal meanings result from a compromise between competing constraints. "Optimal Communication" will be an invaluable resource for students in cognitive science, linguistics, and natural language semantics.
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Medieval Institute Publications The Yearbook of Langland Studies 18 (2004)
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1987, the yearbook was the preeminent venue for scholarship on "Piers Plowman"; on related poems in the tradition of didactic alliterative verse and on the historical, religious, and intellectual contexts in which such poems were produced in late medieval England. Each volume contains essays, reviews and an annotated bibliography.Table of ContentsJill Mann, The Nature of Need Revisited A. V. C. Schmidt,Ars or Scientia? Reflections on Editing Piers Plowman George Shuffelton, Piers Plowman and the Case of the Missing Book Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill, The longe man ys seld wys: Proverbial Characterization and Langlands Long Will Frank Grady, Contextualizing Alexander and Dindimus Noriko Inoue, A New Theory of Alliterative A-Verses Simon Horobin, The Dialect and Authorship of Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger Reviews Helen Barr, Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England. (Ethan Knapp) J. A. Burrow, Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative. (Helen Cooper) Dee Dyas, Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700-1500. (Ad Putter) Elizabeth Fowler, Literary Character: The Human Figure in Early English Writing. (Maura Nolan) William Elford Rogers, Interpretation in Piers Plowman. (James J. Paxson) James Simpson, Reform and Cultural Revolution. The Oxford English Literary History. Volume 2. 1350-1547. (Larry Scanlon) D. Vance Smith, Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary. (Matthew Goldie) Fiona Somerset, Jill C. Havens, and Derrick G. Pitard, eds., Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval England. (Katherine C. Little) Emily Steiner, Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature. (Chris Baswell) Kalpen Trivedi, "Annual Bibliography 2003"
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The Library of America Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day, Theophilus
Book Synopsis"The best thing he ever wrote," observed Edmund Wilson of Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel that shows Wilder revisiting the small-town America of Our Town to fashion a philosophical whodunit. A wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue lead to a meditation on justice, destiny, and "the impassioned will," for which "nothing is impossible." Wilder's last novel, the semi-autobiographical Theophilus North (1973), is an affectionate portrait of Newport, Rhode Island, in the 1920s and a playful, valedictory glance at Wilder's young manhood. Completing this volume are three never-before- published reminiscences taken from an unfinished autobiography in which Wilder engagingly recalls his childhood stay at a boarding school in China, his time as an undergraduate at Yale, and the uneasy experience of visiting Salzburg not long before Austria was annexed by the Nazis.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.Trade Review“You have to hand it to a writer willing to attack the big questions head on, and to embed those questions in the story of small-town America, and then surround it all in the grandeur of the grandeur of America, and then abase some of its citizens for venality while others rise to existential heights.” —Harold Augenbraum
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Career Press The Right Word: Correcting Commonly Confused,
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Baylor University Press Rhetorical Darwinism: Religion, Evolution, and the Scientific Identity
Book SynopsisEverything evolves, science tells us, including the public language used by scientists to sustain and perpetuate their work. Harkening back to the Protestant Reformation--a time when the promise of scientific inquiry was intimately connected with a deep faith in divine Providence--Thomas Lessl traces the evolving role and public identity of science in the West.As the Reformation gave way to the Enlightenment, notions of Providence evolved into progress. History's divine plan could now be found in nature, and scientists became history's new prophets. With Darwin and the emergence of evolutionary science, progress and evolution collapsed together into what Lessl calls ""evolutionism,"" and the grand scientific identity was used to advance science's power into the world.In this masterful treatment, Lessl analyzes the descent of these patterns of scientific advocacy from the world of Francis Bacon into the world of Thomas Huxley and his successors. In the end, Rhetorical Darwinism proposes that Darwin's power to fuel the establishment of science within the Western social milieu often turns from its scientific course.Rhetorical Darwinism: Religion, Evolution, and the Scientific Identity received the Religious Communication Associatons ""Book of the Year"" award in 2012.Trade Review"With his insights into rhetoric, culture, and the English Reformation, Thomas Lessl makes a plausible case that the reformist science rhetoric of Francis Bacon and Thomas Henry Huxley gave us much more than research institutions--it also paved the way for a public ethos of evolutionism, a vision of 'progress' that keeps science well-funded and prestigious. We may never see Bacon and Huxley--or the creation-evolution debate--the same again." --Larry Witham, author of Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in America"I love it! Rhetorical Darwinism is a great read and is a truly important contribution, not just to understanding the impact of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution, but also to situating the public place of science. I recommend this book highly." --Michael Ruse, Director of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Florida State UniversityScience is no mere private pursuit. Rather, the most influential scientific ideas can transform a culture gradually, by first aligning themselves with older cultural ideas and icons, overthrowing the old order in the process. Those who wish to understand how 'evolutionism' insinuated itself into modern culture do no better than to read Lessl's work." --Michael J. Behe, Professor of Biological Science, Lehigh University"Lessl challenges readers to link thinkers and texts in a connected series across centuries and to see how current secular values grew incrementally from religious beliefs." --Jeanne Fahnestock, author of Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in PersuasionFrom the beginnings of the scientific revolution, demarcating the boundaries of science has been a problem for the scientific community. Thomas Lessl, comparing 'evolution' with what he calls 'rhetorical Darwinism,' argues persuasively that the scientific establishment has never guarded those borders carefully. -- Christianity TodayThis is a superb piece of scholarship that ranges widely across disciplinary boundaries, shedding light on the underlying humanity of scientific inquiry and, ultimately, on its politics and sociology as well. Lessl asks novel questions about axiology and ontology and, in so doing, he becomes Charles Darwin's amaneusis for a new age. -- Roderick P. Hart, Dean, Shivers/Cronkite Chair in Communication, University of TexasTable of Contents 1. The Social Meaning of Evolutionary Rhetoric 2. Francis Bacon and the Scientific Identity 3. Science in God's Bosom 4. From Two Books to One 5. The New Christianity 6. Positivism in the World of Thomas Huxley 7. Scientism Scientized 8. The Continuing Education of Evolutionism and Science's Battle for the Public Mind
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Michigan State University Press Remembering the AIDS Quilt
Book SynopsisA collaborative creation unlike any other, the Names Project Foundation’s AIDS Memorial Quilt has played an invaluable role in shattering the silence and stigma that surrounded the epidemic in the first years of its existence. Designed by Cleve Jones, the AIDS Quilt is the largest ongoing community arts project in the world. Since its conception in 1987, the Quilt has transformed the cultural and political responses to AIDS in the U.S. Representative of both marginalized and mainstream peoples, the Quilt contains crucial material and symbolic implications for mourning the dead, and the treatment and prevention of AIDS. However, the project has raised numerous questions concerning memory, activism, identity, ownership, and nationalism, as well as issues of sexuality, race, class, and gender.As thought-provoking as the Quilt itself, this diverse collection of essays by ten prominent rhetorical scholars provides a rich experience of the AIDS Quilt, incorporating a variety of perspectives, critiques, and interpretations.
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Michigan State University Press Speechwright: An Insider's Take on Political
Book SynopsisFor almost thirty years, William F. Gavin wrote speeches at the highest levels of government. Speechwright is his insider’s view of politics, a shrewd critique of presidential and congressional rhetoric, and a personal look at the political leaders for whom he wrote speeches.While serving President Richard Nixon and candidate Ronald Reagan, Gavin advocated for “working rhetoric” - well-crafted, clear, hard-hitting arguments that did not offer visions of the unattainable, but instead limited political discourse to achievable ends reached through practical means.Filled with hard-earned wisdom about politics and its discontents, Speechwright describes Gavin’s successes, his failures, and his call for political rhetoric built on strong argument rather than the mere search for eloquence.
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Michigan State University Press Superchurch: The Rhetoric and Politics of
Book SynopsisChristian Fundamentalism is a doctrine and a discourse in tension. Fundamentalists describe themselves as both marginal and a majority. They announce the imminent end of the world while building massive megachurches and political lobbying organizations. They speak of the need for purity and separation from the outside world while continually innovating in their search for more effective and persuasive ways to communicate with and convert outsiders. To many outsiders, Fundamentalist speech seems contradictory, irrational, intolerant, and dangerously antidemocratic.To understand the complexity of Fundamentalism, we have to look inside the tensions and the paradoxes. We have to take seriously the ways in which Fundamentalists describe themselves to themselves, and to do that, we must begin by exploring the central role of “the church” in Fundamentalist rhetoric and politics.Drawing on five fascinating case studies, Superchurch blends a complex yet readable treatment of rhetorical and political theory with a sophisticated approach to Fundamentalism that neither dismisses its appeal nor glosses over its irresolvable tensions. Edwards challenges theories of rhetoric, counterpublics, deliberation, and civility while offering critical new insights into the evolution and continuing influence of one of the most significant cultural and political movements of the past century.
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Michigan State University Press Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in an
Book SynopsisStanding as the world's two largest economies, marshaling the most imposing armies on earth, holding enormous stockpiles of nuclear weapons, consuming a majority share of the planet's natural resources, and serving as the media generators and health care providers for billions of consumers around the globe, the United States and China are positioned to influence notions of democracy, nationalism, citizenship, human rights, environmental priorities, and public health for the foreseeable future. These broad issues are addressed as questions about communication-about how our two nations envision each other and how our interlinked imaginaries create both opportunities and obstacles for greater understanding and strengthened relations. Accordingly, this book provides in-depth communication-based analyses of how U.S. and Chinese officials, scholars, and activists configure each other, portray the relations between the two nations, and depict their shared and competing interests. As a first step toward building a new understanding between one another, Imagining China tackles the complicated question of how Americans, Chinese, and their respective allies imagine themselves enmeshed in nations, old rivalries, and emerging partnerships, while simultaneously meditating on the powers and limits of nationalism in our age of globalization.Trade ReviewThis volume is a fresh and fascinating rhetorical exploration of the stories humans have invented to imagine China in the age of globalization. It is indispensable reading not only for intercultural communication scholars, government officials, educators, students, and political scientists but also for anyone keenly interested in the unforgettable power of words to move our thoughts and actions." - Carolyn Calloway-Thomas, Chair, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University, and author of Empathy in the Global World: An Intercultural Perspective
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Michigan State University Press World War II and the Cold War: The Rhetoric of
Book SynopsisThis volume examines crucial moments in the rhetoric of the Cold War, beginning with an exploration of American neutrality and the debate over entering World War II.Other topics include the long-distance debate carried on over international radio between Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt; understanding and interpreting World War II propaganda; domestic radio following the war and the use of Abraham Lincoln narratives as vehicles for American propaganda; the influence of foreign policy agents Dean Acheson, Paul Nitze, and George Kennan; and the rhetoric of former presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.Ultimately, this volume offers a broad-based look at the rhetoric framing the Cold War and in doing so offers insight into the political climate of today.
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Michigan State University Press Violent Histories Livable Futures
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Bloomsbury USA Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion
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University Press of Colorado Sexual Harassment and Cultural Change in Writing
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University Press of Colorado Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education
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Utah State University Press Professionalizing Multimodal Composition
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Utah State University Press Sensemaking for Writing Programs and Writing
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Utah State University Press Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of
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University Press of Colorado Writing Centers and Learning Commons: Staying
Book SynopsisWriting Centers and Learning Commons presents program administrators, directors, staff, and tutors with theoretical rationales, experiential journeys, and go-to practical designs and strategies for the many questions involved when writing centers find themselves operating in shared environments.
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