Rhetoric in detail : discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text

✍ Scribed by Eisenhart, Christopher; Johnstone, Barbara

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Series: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 31
• Category: Library

✦ 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

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Discourse analysis and rhetorical studies / Christopher Eisenhart and Barbara Johnstone --
Studying style and legitimation : critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis / Sean Zdenek and Barbara Johnstone. Talking the (political) talk : Cold War refugees and their political legitimation through style / Andreea Deciu Ritivoi
Reporting Waco : the constitutive work of bureaucratic style / Christopher Eisenhart
The rhetoric of temporality : the future as linguistic construct and rhetorical resource / Patricia L. Dunmire
The intertextual forging of epideictic discourse : construals of victims in the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty Hearings / Susan Lawrence --
Studying identity and agency : CDA, interactional sociolinguistics, narrative analysis, grounded theory / Barbara Johnstone. Muted voices : cochlear implants, news discourse, and the public fascination with curing deafness / Sean Zdenek
"American humor" versus "Indian humor" : identity, ethos, and rhetorical situation / Neeta Bhasin
Ethos and narrative in online educational chat / Martha S. Cheng
Disciplinary rhetorics, rhetorical agency, and the construction of voice / Amanda Young --
Studying entextualization and controversy : CDA, participant observation, computer-aided corpus analysis / Barbara Johnstone. How a media controversy can influence a scientific publication : the case of Robert L. Spitzer's "reparative therapy" study / Craig O. Stewart
Controversy as a media event category / Peter A. Cramer
Analyzing everyday talk about social issues / Susan Gilpin.

✦ Subjects

Discourse analysis. Rhetoric. REFERENCE. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary. Taalgebruik. Stijlfiguren. Retorica.