Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Rhetoric

Rhetorik und Stilistik befassen sich mit erfolgreicher menschlicher Kommunikation und mit der Gestaltung von Sprache in Texten. Als wirkungsmachtigste der sprachbezogenen Disziplinen reicht die Rhetorik bis in die Antike zuruck und erlebt zurzeit eine auergewohnliche Renaissance. Die Stilistik untersucht die Gestalt von Texten im Hinblick auf ihr Sinnangebot und ihre Funktion im individuellen Leben und gesellschaftlichen Raum. Das Handbuch bietet historische und systematische Uberblicke uber theoretische Positionen, Formen der Anwendung und praktische Kontexte von der Antike bis in die...

• Uses primary source material to analyze rhetoric from the Sophists through St. Augustine
  
• Provides an in-depth introduction to the period, as well as introductions to each author and each selection
  
• Includes study guides to help students develop multiple perspectives on the material, stimulate critical...

Collaborate with classroom teachers on strategies to teach the writing process in the K-12 library and classroom. This well-organized and easy-to-follow resource is all you need to teach your students to write well. Includes reproducible posters and lessons to use immediately. This book explains the writing process, offers collaborative curriculum connections, and includes a treasure trove of teacher/librarian collaborative writing lessons.

The story of George Wallace is the odyssey of a young war veteran who entered politics to support progressive policies, but instead descended into the politics of racism following the loss of his lifetime dream of being elected Governor of Alabama in 1958. His political career demonstrates the ability of a demagogue and agitator to exploit racial fears to achieve political power.

This work traces the career of the man who symbolized Southern opposition to integration, but ironically ended up gaining overwhelming support from black voters in his final election campaign. He...

Avital Ronell has won worldwide acclaim for her work across literature and philosophy, psychoanalysis and popular culture, political theory and feminism, art and rhetoric, drugs and deconstruction. In works such as The Test Drive, Stupidity, Crack Wars, and The Telephone Book, she has perpetually raised new and powerful questions about how we think, what thinking does, and how we fool ourselves about the troubled space between thought and action.

In this collection, some of today's most distinguished and innovative thinkers turn their attention to Ronell's teaching, writing, and...

"This is an important book: original, erudite, useful and ambitious." --Quarterly Journal of Speech

"A remarkable book... sure to be of lasting interest... to be reckoned with by all rhetorical theorists." --Choice

This is the first contemporary attempt at a holistic theory of rhetoric, well grounded in the context of cultural and social history. Arguing that rhetoric has always been an independent, objective, essential factor in human interaction, Valesio views it as coextensive with human speech in use.