Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages

The Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages offers a useful collection of papers that presents rhetorical analysis of the discoursal practice in different cultural settings.

Covering issues from America to Europe and Asia, and topics from politics to media, education to science, agriculture to literature, and so on, the handbook describes how language can guide listeners’ interpretations, alter their perceptions and shape their worldviews. This book offers a solid foundation for rhetorical studies to become an essential discipline in arts and humanities, engendering innovative theory and applications in areas such as linguistics, literature, history, cultural studies, political science and sociology.

This handbook will be crucial for students and researchers in areas such as literature and linguistics, communication studies, political science and arts and humanities in general. This book will also be useful to social science, education, business, law, science and engineering departments due to its coverage of rhetoric in a multidisciplinary and multilingual context.

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Weixiao Wei has been working as a lecturer at the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Taiyuan University of Technology, China, for 12 years since she obtained her MA degree in 2010. In July 2017, she received a visiting scholarship from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to undertake research projects at Swansea University, UK, for a year. Since then, she has published two monographs and six book chapters with Routledge. She is currently the chief editor of the Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and is planning another handbook of language learning in a global context. She is also the editor of the Chinese language studies section in the upcoming Routledge Research Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies. In addition to preparing research papers, a monograph and an edited volume for further publication, she has been pursuing her PhD study in rhetoric and composition at University of Houston, USA.

James Schnell, PhD (Ohio University), is an Assistant Professor in the Defense Critical Languages & Culture Program at the University of Montana, USA. He is a three-time Fulbright Scholar (Cambodia, Myanmar and Kosovo) and has published widely on matters having to do with cross-cultural communication, most specifically focusing on China. Schnell has taught in the USA at Cleveland State University, Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, and Miami University and in China at Beijing Jiaotong University. He was a visiting scholar at Fudan University, China, in 2017.