Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse Analyses of Rhetorical Talk and Text

Johnstone, Barbara (Editor)/ Eisenhart, Christopher (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9027206198 / ISBN 13: 9789027206190

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2008

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330 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse Analyses of Rhetorical Talk and Text
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027206198
• ISBN 13: 9789027206190
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.76 kilograms

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Synopsis

The eleven studies in this volume illustrate and advance the synthesis of discourse analysis with rhetorical studies. Rhetoric in Detail shows how a variety of techniques from discourse analysis can be useful in studying such concerns as agency, legitimation, controversy, and style, and how concepts from rhetoric including genre and figuration can enrich the work of discourse analysts. The authors’ research sites range from government commissions, political speeches, newspaper reports and letters to interviews and conversations in beauty salons and online. Methodological overviews interspersed throughout survey critical discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, grounded theory, computer-aided corpus analysis, narrative analysis, and participant observation and provide suggestions for further reading. Rhetoric in Detail is an invaluable source for rhetoricians looking for systematic, grounded ways of approaching new, more vernacular sites for rhetorical discourse and for discourse analysts interested in seeing what they can learn from the tradition and practice of rhetorical analysis.