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Patient Tales - Case Histories And The Uses Of Narrative In Psychiarty

by Carol Berkenkotter

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 Looks into communicating psychiatric patient histories, from the asylum years to the clinics of today. This book examines the evolving role of case history narratives in the growth of psychiatry as a medical profession.
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Moving Bodies - Kenneth Burke At The Edges Of Language

by Debra Hawhee

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 Kenneth Burke may be best known for his theories of dramatism and of language as symbolic action, but few know him as one of the twentieth century''s foremost theorists of the relationship between language and bodies. In Moving Bodies, Debra Hawhee focuses on Burke''s studies from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s while illustrating that his interest in reading the body as a central force of communication began early in his career.By exploring Burke''s extensive writings on the subject alongside revealing considerations of his life and his scholarship, Hawhee maps his recurring invocation of a variety of disciplinary perspectives in order to theorize bodies and communication, working across and even beyond the arts, humanities, and sciences.Burke''s sustained analysis of the body drew on approaches representing a range of specialties and interests, including music, mysticism, endocrinology, evolution, speech-gesture theory, and speech-act theory, as well as his personal experiences with pain and illness. Hawhee shows that Burke''s goal was to advance understanding of the body''s relationship to identity, to the creation of meaning, and to the circulation of language. Her study brings to the fore one of Burke''s most important and understudied contributions to language theory, and she establishes Burke as a pioneer in a field where investigations into affect, movement, and sense perception broaden understanding of physical ways of knowing.
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Rhetoric In Ancient China, Fifth To Third Century B.C.E - A Comparison With Classical Greek Rhetoric

by Xing Lu

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 Xing Lu examines language, art, persuasion, and argumentation in ancient China and offers a detailed and authentic account of ancient Chinese rhetorical theories and practices within the society''s philosophical, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts. She focuses on the works of five schools of thought and ten well-known Chinese thinkers from Confucius to Han Feizi to the the Later Mohists. Lu identifies seven key Chinese terms pertaining to speech, language, persuasion, and argumentation as they appeared in these original texts, selecting ming bian as the linchpin for the Chinese conceptual term of rhetorical studies.Lu compares Chinese rhetorical perspectives with those of the ancient Greeks, illustrating that the Greeks and the Chinese shared a view of rhetoric as an ethical enterprise and of speech as a rational and psychological activity. The two traditions differed, however, in their rhetorical education, sense of rationality, perceptions of the role of language, approach to the treatment and study of rhetoric, and expression of emotions. Lu also links ancient Chinese rhetorical perspectives with contemporary Chinese interpersonal and political communication behavior and offers suggestions for a multicultural rhetoric that recognizes both culturally specific and transcultural elements of human communication.
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Speaking For The Polis - Isocrates' Rhetorical Education

by Takis Poulakos

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 A revaluing of rhetoric in the educational model of the father of humanistic studiesSpeaking for the Polis considers Isocrates' educational program from the perspective of rhetorical theory and explores its relation to sociopolitical practices. Illumining Isocrates' efforts to reformulate sophistic conceptions of rhetoric on the basis of the intellectual and political debates of his times, Takis Poulakos contends that the father of humanistic studies and rival educator of Plato crafted a version of rhetoric that gave the art an important new role in the ethical and political activities of Athens.Poulakos demonstrates how Isocrates adopted, transformed, and put to new tasks Protagorean and Gorgianic notions of rhetoric and how he used rhetoric to resolve tensions between political equality and social inequality. Poulakos suggests that Isocrates' rhetorical endeavors gained stability through narratives of values and shared commitments, credence through seasoned arguments about plausible solutions to political discord, and weight through the convergence of the speaker's words and quality of character.
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Vernacular Voices - The Rhetoric Of Publics And Public Spheres

by Gerard A. Hauser

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 A foundational text of twenty-first-century rhetorical studies, Vernacular Voices addresses the role of citizen voices in steering a democracy through an examination of the rhetoric of publics.
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Rhetorics Of Display

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 Designed to assess an increasingly pervasive form of rhetorical activity, this book provides a study of the processes of selecting what to reveal and what to conceal that together constitute the rhetorics of display. Including case studies, it surveys the major historical transformations in the relationship between rhetoric and display.
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Rhetorical Landscapes In America - Variations On A Theme From Kenneth Burke

by Gregory Clark

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 At the same time a reading of Kenneth Burke' and of tourist landscapes in America, Gregory Clark's study explores the rhetorical power connected with American tourism.
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Human Communication As Narration - Toward A Philosophy Of Reason, Value, And Action

by Walter R. Fisher

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 This book addresses questions that have concerned rhetoricians, literary theorists, and philosophers since the time of the pre-Socratics and the Sophists: How do people come to believe and to act on the basis of communicative experiences? What is the nature of reason and rationality in these experiences? What is the role of values in human decision making and action? How can reason and values be assessed? In answering these questions, Professor Fisher proposes a reconceptualization of humankind as homo narrans, that all forms of human communication need to be seen as stories—symbolic interpretations of aspects of the world occurring in time and shaped by history, culture, and character; that individuated forms of discourse should be considered "good reasons"—values or value-laden warrants for believing or acting in certain ways; and that a narrative logic that all humans have natural capacities to employ ought to be conceived of as the logic by which human communication is assessed.
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Rhetoric Of The Chinese Cultural Revolution - The Impact On Chinese Thought, Culture, And Communication

by Xing Lu

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 Now known to the Chinese as the "ten years of chaos", the Chinese Cultural Revolution brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution to millions. Xing Lu identifies the rhetorical practices of the polarizing political language and symbolic practices used by Communist Party leaders to legitimize their use of power and violence.
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Rhetorical Unconsciousness And Political Psychoanalysis

by M. Lane Bruner

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 Case studies exploring the roots of persuasion and rhetorical unconsciousnessRhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis investigates unintentional forms of persuasion, their political consequences, and our ethical relation to the same. M. Lane Bruner argues that the unintentional ways we are persuaded are far more important than intentional persuasion; in fact all intentional persuasion is built on the foundations of rhetorical unconsciousness, whether we are persuaded through ignorance (the unsayable), unconscious symbolic processes (the unspoken), or productive repression (the unspeakable).Bruner brings together a wide range of theoretical approaches to unintentional persuasion, establishing the locations of such persuasion and providing examples taken from the Western European transition from feudalism to capitalism. To be more specific, phenomena related to artificial personhood and the commodity self have led to transformations in material culture from architecture to theater, showing how rhetorical unconsciousness works to create symptoms. Bruner then examines ethical considerations, the relationships among language in use, unconsciousness, and the seemingly irrational aspects of cultural and political history.
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Diagnosing Madness - The Discursive Construction Of The Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920

by Carol Berkenkotter e Christina Hanganu-Bresch

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 An examination of the evolving rhetoric of psychiatric diseaseDiagnosing Madness is a study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness identification and patient diagnosis. Through an examination of individual psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter show how the work of psychiatry was navigated by patients, families, doctors, the general public, and the legal system. The results of examining those involved and their interactions show that the psychiatrist's task became one of constant persuasion, producing arguments surrounding diagnosis and asylum confinement that attempted to reconcile shifting definitions of disease and to respond to sociocultural pressures.By studying patient cases, the emerging literature of confinement, and patient accounts viewed alongside institutional records, the authors trace the evolving rhetoric of psychiatric disease, its impact on the treatment of patients, its implications for our contemporary understanding of mental illness, and the identity of the psychiatric patient. Diagnosing Madness helps elucidate the larger rhetorical forces that contributed to the eventual decline of the asylum and highlights the struggle for the professionalization of psychiatry.
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Interruption That We Are - The Health Of The Lived Body, Narrative, And Public Moral Argument

by Michael J. Hyde

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 In this provocative work, Michael Hyde develops a philosophy of communication ethics in which the practice of rhetoric plays a fundamental role in promoting and maintaining the health of our personal and communal existence. He examines how the force of interruption is a catalyst for moral reflection and moral behaviour.
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Introducing Science Through Images - Cases Of Visual Popularization

by Maria E. Gigante

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 The practice of merging art and imagery with science has been gaining traction in the scientific community. While images have been used with greater frequency in recent years, their value is often viewed as superficial. To the contrary, Maria E. Gigante posits in this volume, the value of imagery goes far beyond mere aestheticsuvisual elements are powerful communication vehicles.
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The Rhetoric Of Mao Zedong - Transforming China And Its People

by Xing Lu

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 A thorough examination of the Chinese leader's speeches and writings that reshaped a nation's cultureMao Zedong fundamentally transformed China from a Confucian society characterized by hierarchy and harmony into a socialist state guided by communist ideologies of class struggle and radicalization. It was a transformation made possible largely by Mao's rhetorical ability to attract, persuade, and mobilize millions of Chinese people. Xing Lu's book, Rhetoric of Mao Zedong, analyzes Mao's speeches and writings over a span of sixty years, tracing the sources and evolution of Mao's discourse, analyzing his skills as a rhetor and mythmaker, and assessing his symbolic power and continuing presence in contemporary China. Lu observes that Mao's rhetorical legacy has been commoditized, culturally consumed, and politically appropriated since his death.Applying both Western rhetorical theories and Chinese rhetorical concepts to reach a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of his rhetorical legacy, Lu shows how Mao employed a host of rhetorical appeals and strategies drawn from Chinese tradition and how he interpreted the discourse of Marxism-Leninism to serve foundational themes of his message. She traces the historical contexts in which these themes, his philosophical orientations, and his political views were formed and how they transformed China and Chinese people. Lu also examines how certain ideas are promoted, modified, and appropriated in Mao's rhetoric. Mao's appropriation of Marxist theory of class struggle, his campaigns of transforming common people into new communist advocates, his promotion of Chinese nationalism, and his stand on China's foreign policy all contributed to and were responsible for reshaping Chinese thought patterns, culture, and communication behaviors.
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Keys Of Power - The Rhetoric And Politics Of Transcendentalism

by Nathan Crick

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 Examines transcendentalism as a distinct rhetorical genre concerned primarily and self-consciously with questions of power
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Logos Without Rhetoric - The Arts Of Language Before Plato

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 A germinal examination of rhetoric's beginnings through pre-fourth-century Greek texts
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Textual Curation - Authorship, Agency, And Technology In Wikipedia And Chambers''S Cyclopaedia

by Krista Kennedy

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 A study of the roles community, financial support, texts, information structures, interfaces, and technology play in collaborative worksWikipedia is arguably the most famous collaboratively written text of our time, but few know that nearly three hundred years ago Ephraim Chambers proposed an encyclopedia written by a wide range of contributors—from illiterate craftspeople to titled gentry. Chambers wrote that incorporating information submitted by the public would considerably strengthen the second edition of his well-received Cyclopædia, which relied on previously published information. In Textual Curation, Krista Kennedy examines the editing and production histories of the Cyclopædia and Wikipedia, the ramifications of robot-written texts, and the issues of intellectual property theory and credit. Kennedy also documents the evolution of both encyclopedias as well as the participation of central players in discussions about the influence of technology and collaboration in early modern and contemporary culture.Through this comparative study, based on extensive archival research and data-driven analysis, Kennedy illuminates the deeply situated nature of authorship, which is dependent on cultural approval and stable funding sources as much as it is on original genius and the ownership of intellectual property. Kennedy''s work significantly revises long-held notions of authorial agency and autonomy, establishing the continuity of new writing projects such as wikis with longstanding authorial practices that she calls textual curation.This study examines a wide range of texts that recompose accepted knowledge into reliable, complex reference works combining contributions of article text alongside less commonly considered elements such as metadata vocabularies, cross-indexing, and the development of print and digital interfaces. Comparison of analog and networked texts also lays bare the impact of technological developments, both in the composing process and in the topics that can practically be included in such a text. By examining the human and technological curators that support these encyclopedias as well as the discourses that surround them, Kennedy develops textual curation as a longstanding theory and process that offers a nuanced construction of authorship.
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Queerly Remembered - Rhetorics For Representing The Glbtq Past

by Thomas R. Dunn

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 Investigates the ways in which gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) individuals and communities have increasingly turned to public tellings of their ostensibly shared pasts in order to advocate for political, social, and cultural change in the present.
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Assembling Arguments - Multimodal Rhetoric And Scientific Discourse

by Jonathan Buehl

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 A comprehensive account of multimodal scientific persuasion with a framework for analysis and teaching
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Rhetoric And Power - The Drama Of Classical Greece

by Nathan Crick

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 An insightful approach to classical Greek texts and practices as the wellspring for understanding rhetoric's relationship to authority
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Popular Memories - Commemoration, Participatory Culture, And Democratic Citizenship

by Ekaterina V. Haskins

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 A critical exploration of the ways public participation has transformed commemoration and civic engagement in the United States
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Democracy And Rhetoric

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Democracy And Rhetoric - John Dewey On The Arts Of Becoming

by Nathan Crick

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 Presents an innovative approach to John Dewey's view of rhetoric as art, revealing an 'ontology of becoming'. This title articulates from John Dewey's body of work a philosophy of rhetoric that reveals the necessity for bringing forth a democratic life infused with the spirit of ethics, a method of inquiry, and a sense of beauty.
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Rhetorics And Technologies

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Rhetorics And Technologies - New Directions In Writing And Communication

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 "Cloth edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2010"--Title page verso.
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Cultural Economy Of Falun Gong In China

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Cultural Economy Of Falun Gong In China - A Rhetorical Perspective

by Xiao Ming

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 Emerging in China in the early 1990s, Falun Gong is viewed by its supporters as a folk movement promoting the benefits of good health and moral cultivation. To the Chinese establishment, however, it is a dissident religious cult threatening political orthodoxy and national stability. The author, a Chinese national once involved in implementing Chinese cultural policies, examines the evolving relationship between Falun Gong and Chinese authorities in a revealing case study of the powerful public discourse between a pervasive political ideology and an alternative agenda in contention for cultural dominance.Posited as a cure for culturally bound illness with widespread symptoms, the Falun Gong movement''s efficacy among the marginalized relies on its articulation of a struggle against government sanctioned exploitation in favor of idealistic moral aspirations. In countering such a position, the Chinese government alleges that the religious movement is based in superstition and pseudoscience. Aided by her insider perspective, the author deftly employs Western rhetorical methodology in a compelling critique of an Eastern rhetorical occurrence, highlighting how authority confronts challenge in postsocialist China.
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