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This practical book explores persuasive techniques in the English language, and is the ideal introduction for students and others with a professional interest in persuasion. Using a wide range of lively and accessible illustrative material, Robert Cockcroft and Susan Cockcroft unpick the complexities of persuasive language - both written and spoken - and enable readers to develop and enhance their rhetorical skills.
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Susan Cockcroft is a tutor in English Language at the University of Nottingham and Principal Examiner in A-level English Language and Literature.
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'...a highly valuable tool for linguists and literary critics, offering an updated presentation of ancient rhetoric, as reinterpreted for the present day. It is an attractive, friendly book, which reads very well...' - Raquel Hidalgo Downing, Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1403921822
- ISBN 13 9781403921826
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- Edition number2
- Number of pages240
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