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Book SynopsisPublic deliberation depends on how skillful communicators are in establishing their version of what is known to be publicly acceptable. This volume provides rhetorical analyses of institutional websites, political speeches, scientific presentations, journalistic accounts or visual entertainment. It shows the significance of rhetorical construction of knowledge in the public sphere. It addresses the issues of citizenship and social participation, media agendas, surveillance and verbal or visual manipulation. It offers rhetorical critiques of current trends in specialist communication and of devices used when contested interests or ideologies are presented.
Table of ContentsContents: Agnieszka Kampka/Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska: Rhetoric and the public sphere: Making a case for a knowledge society – Cezar M. Ornatowski: Knowledge and surveillance society – Christine Isager: A poor show of knowing: the horror and comedy of unsuccessful writers on film – Marcus Gottschling: Lend me your eyes: Creating immediate understanding through Prezi – Martijn Wackers/Jaap de Jong/Bas Andeweg: Structure strategies for a memorable speech: the use of rhetorical retention techniques by scholars and politicians – Louise Schou Therkildsen: Becoming a citizen: Knowledge and identity in European textbooks for citizenship tests – David Isaksen: From calutrons to Congress: The democratic challenge of specialized knowledge – Gabriela Scripnic: Emotion-invoking strategies in the presentation of Roşia Montană Project in the Romanian public sphere – Hilde van Belle: Polemics and paradoxes in the media: The case of the Dutch TV-show Pauw – Ludmilla A’Beckett: Stigmatizing female oppositionists in Russia: Stances toward comparisons with Joan of Arc – Maureen Daly Goggin: Preparing students for the emergent knowledge society: Rethinking learning and pedagogy in rhetoric – Ove Bergersen: Kindergartens and the civic art of rhetoric: Citizens, character and knowledge – Anne E. Porter: «Responsibilizing» the youth: The rhetoric of civic participation in the World Bank’s 2009 climate change essay competition.
