Blogs about: Contemporary Rhetoric
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Brooke – Lingua Fracta
Brooke, Collin. Lingua Fracta. Creeskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc., 2009. Lingua Fracta starts from the premise that there is a technological dimension to rhetoric, but as a discipline we have become f… more →
LaToya L. Sawyer
Marxist rhetorical theory
wrote 1 month ago: In its recent history, rhetorical theory and composition studies have concerned themselves primarily … more →
Presidential campaigning as cultural ritual
wrote 2 months ago: According to Bruce Gronbeck, the old saw about presidential campaigns (“What a waste of resources an … more →
Identification and optimism
wrote 2 months ago: We may as well be frank about it, since our frankness, if it doesn’t convince, will at least s … more →
Constructing an audience, abstracting a "people"
wrote 2 months ago: Tu masa de oprimidos y de parias – le contesté - no es más que una abstracción. Sólo los indi … more →
Is that a rhetorical question?
wrote 3 months ago: This week’s readings demonstrate that our theoretical conceptions of rhetoric will differ depending … more →
Mere Rhetoric
wrote 3 months ago: Gaonkar’s essay, “Rhetoric and Its Double,” does not argue that rhetoric is unimportant. It simply … more →
Defining Rhetoric
wrote 3 months ago: Our editors tell us that the question “what is rhetoric” is a “foundational and totalizing” one, and … more →
A Culture of Ethos
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wrote 8 months ago: The institutionalization of contemporary rhetoric. Prior goes on to explain how rhetoric can be inst … more →
Brooke - Lingua Fracta
wrote 11 months ago: Brooke, Collin. Lingua Fracta. Creeskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc., 2009. Lingua Fracta starts from t … more →
Enoch - Survival Stories: Feminist Historiographic Approaches to Chicana Rhetorics of Sterilizationand Abuse
wrote 11 months ago: Enoch, Jessica. “Survival Stories: Feminist Historiographic Approaches to Chicana Rhetorics of … more →
Aune - Marxism and Rhetorical Theory
wrote 11 months ago: Aune, James Arnt. “Cultures of Discourse: Marxism and Rhetorical Theory.” Rhetoric and M … more →
Edbauer - Unframing models of public distribution: From rhetorical situation to rhetorical ecologies
wrote 11 months ago: Edbauer, Jenny. “Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetori … more →
Perelman and Olbrechts-Tytecha - The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation
wrote 11 months ago: Perelman, C., and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca. The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation. Notre Dame: No … more →
Booth - Modern Dogma and Rhetoric of Assent
wrote 11 months ago: Booth, Wayne C. Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent. 5 Vol. Notre Dame Ind.: University of Notre … more →
Biesecker - Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from within the Thematic of Differance
wrote 11 months ago: Biesecker, Barbara A. “Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from within the Thematic of Differa … more →
Vatz - The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation
wrote 11 months ago: Vatz, Richard E. “The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation.” Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: … more →
Bitzer - The Rhetorical Situation
wrote 11 months ago: Bitzer, Lloyd F. “The Rhetorical Situation.” Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader. E … more →
Stasis
wrote 1 year ago: Graham, S. Scott and Carl G. Herndl. “Talking Off-Label: The Role of Stasis in Transforming th … more →
Recalcitrance
wrote 1 year ago: Prelli, Lawerence J., Floyd D. Anderson, and Matthew T. Althouse. “Kenneth Burke on Recalcitra … more →
