Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient Times to the Information AgeTheresa Enos This reference guide surveys the field, covering rhetoric's principles, concepts, applications, practical tools, and major thinkers. Drawing on the scholarship and expertise of 288 contributors, the Encyclopedia presents a long-needed overview of rhetoric and its role in contemporary education and communications, discusses rhetoric's contributions to various fields, surveys the applications of this versatile discipline to the teaching of English and language arts, and illustrates its usefulness in all kinds of discourse, argument, and exchange of ideas. |
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... rhetorical theory, as in recent work on the cultural contexts surrounding the Greek sophists, have been broadened to include analysis of texts drawn from the so-called “low” as well as “high” cultures. In fact, in the different ...
... rhetorical theory, as in recent work on the cultural contexts surrounding the Greek sophists, have been broadened to include analysis of texts drawn from the so-called “low” as well as “high” cultures. In fact, in the different ...
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... Rhetorical theory serves as his anchor, but just as rhetorical theory covers a multitude of topics, so does Dr. Arnold's research. He is clearly a humanistic, pragmatic, eclectic scholar and a generalist who examines rhetoric wherever ...
... Rhetorical theory serves as his anchor, but just as rhetorical theory covers a multitude of topics, so does Dr. Arnold's research. He is clearly a humanistic, pragmatic, eclectic scholar and a generalist who examines rhetoric wherever ...
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... rhetorical theory and pedagogy have identified certain fixed arrangements based on recurrent rhetorical situations , like the courtroom defense , and on default assumptions about how people are persuaded ; the student of rhetoric learns ...
... rhetorical theory and pedagogy have identified certain fixed arrangements based on recurrent rhetorical situations , like the courtroom defense , and on default assumptions about how people are persuaded ; the student of rhetoric learns ...
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... theory ; modern theories pertaining specifically to audience for written discourse , principally in the fields of rhetoric and composition and in literary theory ; and postmodern theories ( especially the view of audience as community ) ...
... theory ; modern theories pertaining specifically to audience for written discourse , principally in the fields of rhetoric and composition and in literary theory ; and postmodern theories ( especially the view of audience as community ) ...
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... Rhetoric and the Revival of Audience Two twentieth-century developments help ... theory (mainly those of Aristotle) and integrated them with insights from ... rhetorical process and vital to invention. Perelman's and Toulmin's theories ...
... Rhetoric and the Revival of Audience Two twentieth-century developments help ... theory (mainly those of Aristotle) and integrated them with insights from ... rhetorical process and vital to invention. Perelman's and Toulmin's theories ...
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