Neurorhetorics

ISBN-13: 9780415521871 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 144 str.

Jordynn Jack

Opis

In academia, as well as in popular culture, the prefix 'neuro-' now occurs with startling frequency. The chapters in this book investigate the rhetorical appeal, effects, and implications of this prefix, neuro-, and carefully consider the potential collaborative work between rhetoricians and neuroscientists.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: What are Neurorhetorics? Jordynn Jack  2. "This is Your Brain on Rhetoric": Research Directions for Neurorhetorics Jordynn Jack and L. Gregory Appelbaum  3. The Neuroscience of Rhetoric: Identification, Mirror Neurons, and Making The Many Appear David Gruber  4. Response: Toward a Rhetoric of Cognition Daniel M. Gross  5. Whatever Happened to the Cephalic Index? The Reality of Race and the Burden of Proof John P. Jackson Jr.  6. The Skeleton on the Couch: The Eagleton Affair, Rhetorical Disability, and the Stigma of Mental Illness Jenell Johnson  7. The Genre of the Mood Memoir and the Ethos of Psychiatric Disability Katie Rose Guest Pryal

O autorze

Jordynn Jack is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. She is author of Science on the Home Front: American Women Scientists in World War II (2010), and has written for journals including Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech and Rhetoric Review.