Democratic Vernaculars: Rhetorics of Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Criticism Since the Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9780367416676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 370 str.

J. Michael Sproule

Opis

Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorical vernacular that occupies the “middle range” of English, bounded on the one side by grammar and linguistics and on the other by literature.

Spis treści

1. Vernacular Innovations 2. Rhetorical Education 3. Rhetoric Culturally Applied 4.Compositional and Literary Vernaculars 5. The Communicative Revolution in Speech 6. Vernacular Criticism

O autorze

J. Michael Sproule is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at San Jose State University and a past president of the National Communication Association.