Contributions

  • Hogan, J. Michael, 1953- - Contributor

Publication

1998 - University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, S.C, South Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

78,750 words, Guess

Page Count

315 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing5612925
  • Goodreads957124

Classifications

  • DDC808
  • LCCP301.5.S63 R48 1998

Description

In Rhetoric and Community, seventeen leading scholars of rhetoric and discourse join forces to explore an area of growing scholarly interest - how rhetoric defines, rallies, polarizes, and marginalizes specific communities. Contributors to the volume consider such contentious issues as how individuals are forged into "communities"; what sustains vibrant, constructive communities; how communities become fragmented; and what leads to divisions of race, class, and gender, the rhetoric of hatred and violence, or failures of public discussion to resolve common problems.

First Sentence

I have always been interested in close readings of speech texts, especially in the metaphorical patterns that interweave through the fabric of words.

Excerpt

I have always been interested in close readings of speech texts, especially in the metaphorical patterns that interweave through the fabric of words.

Subjects

Topics

RhetoricSocial aspectsRhetoric -- Social aspects.

Series Statement

  • Studies in rhetoric/communication

Other Editions

  • Rhetoric and community: studies in unity and fragmentationUniversity of South Carolina Press1998-01-01

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