Showing papers on "Rhetorical question published in 2009"
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28 Oct 2009
TL;DR: This encyclopedia offers the student of communication a sense of the history, development, and current status of the discipline, with an emphasis on the theories that comprise it.
Abstract: "The Encyclopedia of Communication Theory" provides students and researchers with a comprehensive two-volume overview of contemporary communication theory. Reference librarians report that students frequently approach them seeking a source that will provide them with a quick overview of a particular theory or theorist - just enough to help them grasp the general concept or theory and its relation to the discipline as a whole. Communication scholars and teachers also occasionally need a quick reference for theories. Edited by the co-authors of the best-selling textbook on communication theory and drawing on the expertise of an advisory board of 10 international scholars and nearly 200 contributors from 10 countries, this work finally provides such a resource. More than 300 entries address topics related not only to paradigms, traditions, and schools, but also metatheory, methodology, inquiry, and applications and contexts. Entries of this book cover several orientations, including psycho-cognitive; social-interactional; cybernetic and systems; cultural; critical; feminist; philosophical; rhetorical; semiotic, linguistic, and discursive; and, non-Western. Concepts relate to interpersonal communication, groups and organizations, and media and mass communication. In sum, this encyclopedia offers the student of communication a sense of the history, development, and current status of the discipline, with an emphasis on the theories that comprise it.
363 citations
TL;DR: The authors employ rhetorical theory to reconceptualize institutionalization as change in argument structure, and use it to define the structure of argument used by a state to achieve change in its own argument structure.
Abstract: This article employs rhetorical theory to reconceptualize institutionalization as change in argument structure. As a state, institutionalization is embodied in the structure of argument used to jus...
235 citations
Book•
22 Dec 2009
TL;DR: The authors demystifies academic writing, teaching students to frame their arguments in the larger context of what else has been said about their topic and providing templates to help them make the key rhetorical moves.
Abstract: This is the book that demystifies academic writing, teaching students to frame their arguments in the larger context of what else has been said about their topic - and providing templates to help them make the key rhetorical moves. The best-selling new composition book published in this century, "They Say/I Say" has essentially defined academic writing, identifying its key rhetorical moves, the most important of which is to summarize what others have said (they say) to set up one's own argument (I say). The book also provides templates to help students make these key moves in their own writing. The second edition includes a new chapter on reading that shows students how to read for the larger conversation and two new chapters on the moves that matter in the sciences and social sciences.
217 citations
01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: The authors explored the intersections between rhetoric and religion in Graeco-Roman antiquity, both pagan and Christian, and found that discourse can have supernatural effectiveness, and the orator can be invested with religious powers.
Abstract: The paper explores the intersections between rhetoric and religion in Graeco-Roman antiquity, both pagan and Christian. Rhetorical forms of religious expression include discourse about the gods (narrative, eulogy, preaching, naming) and discourse addressed to the gods, especially prayers and hymns. Rhetoric itself possesses a religious dimension in the power of words, the effectiveness of speech, and the magic of persuasion. Discourse can have supernatural effectiveness, and the orator can be invested with religious powers. Aelius Aristides (2nd c. CE) displays these different aspects; his Sacred Tales illustrate the cross-fertilization of rhetoric and religion.
157 citations
TL;DR: In the case presented here, a trade association issued a rich assortment of rhetorical claims intended to sow public confusion about university studies that threatened to undermine its industry's activities.
Abstract: In recent decades, corporate and special interests have developed a wide repertoire of methods to manufacture doubt about science that threatens their interests. In the case presented here, a trade association issued a rich assortment of rhetorical claims intended to sow public confusion about university studies that threatened to undermine its industry's activities. Journalists' use of these claims appeared to vary largely as a function of their perceptions of their journalistic roles and of their audiences, though their knowledge of science also appeared to play a role. Our findings offer insight into how and why reporters respond to rhetorical claims about scientific ignorance and uncertainty that actors use to discredit threatening science. In so doing, they contribute to growing scholarship on journalists' contributions to the social construction of ignorance in scientific controversies.
141 citations
Book•
26 Aug 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, a case-based process to aid researchers in ethical decision-making is presented, along with useful resources and heuristics for engaging in ethical practices, interactions, and problem solving for their research.
Abstract: Drawing from interviews with Internet researchers from across the globe who work in diverse disciplines and in a wide array of online venues, this book examines ethical issues and questions that Internet researchers may encounter throughout the research process. Although the ethics of Internet research are complex, the aim of the book is to provide a rhetorical, case-based process to aid researchers in ethical decision making. In doing so, the book provides Internet researchers with useful resources and heuristics for engaging in ethical practices, interactions, and problem solving for their research.
126 citations
TL;DR: The emergence of a new apocalyptic discourse in microbiology and health care is traced, its rhetorical and political function is examined and its advantages and disadvantages are discussed.
Abstract: Discourses evoking an antibiotic apocalypse and a war on superbugs are emerging just at a time when so-called "catastrophe discourses" are undergoing critical and reflexive scrutiny in the context of global warming and climate change. This article combines insights from social science research into climate change discourses with applied metaphor research based on recent advances in cognitive linguistics, especially with relation to "discourse metaphors." It traces the emergence of a new apocalyptic discourse in microbiology and health care, examines its rhetorical and political function and discusses its advantages and disadvantages. It contains a reply by the author of the central discourse metaphor, "the post-antibiotic apocalypse," examined in the article.
119 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that nuclear colonialism is significantly a rhetorical phenomenon that builds upon the discourses of colonialism and nuclearism, and identify three interconnected strategies of rhetorical exclusion that uphold nuclear colonialism through examination of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste siting process.
Abstract: Nuclear colonialism is a system of domination through which governments and corporations disproportionately target and devastate indigenous peoples and their lands to maintain the nuclear production process. Though nuclear colonialism is an historically and empirically verifiable phenomenon, previous studies do not attend to how nuclear colonialism is perpetuated through discourse. In this essay, I argue that nuclear colonialism is significantly a rhetorical phenomenon that builds upon the discourses of colonialism and nuclearism. Nuclear colonialism rhetorically excludes American Indians and their opposition to it through particular rhetorical strategies. I identify three interconnected strategies of rhetorical exclusion that uphold nuclear colonialism. This essay discusses nuclear colonialism and rhetorical exclusion through examination of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste siting process.
115 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the rhetorical use of these images can be characterized by a conflation of knowing with seeing, and that the need for continued analysis of the epistemology of foetal images and renewed focus on the subject position of the viewer is needed.
Abstract: Foetal images have been central to the medicalized abortion debate since the 1960s. Feminists have extensively analysed such pictures, arguing that the pregnant body is separated from the foetus and erased from view, and that the rights of women and foetuses are set in opposition. In this article I introduce the latest image in this debate, the 3D sonogram, which is widely reported as new evidence for a reduction in the gestational time limit. Through close analysis of two examples, I argue that the rhetorical use of these images can be characterized by a conflation of knowing with seeing. With the new clarity of sonograms to the untrained eye, image producers are legitimated by a discourse of public information and concerned citizens are called upon to exercise their rights to see/know. For feminist theory, this implies the need for continued analysis of the epistemology of foetal images and renewed focus on the subject position of the viewer.
110 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a rhetorical theory of delivery for Internet-based communications is developed, which is based on the five key canons of classical rhetoric: body/Identity, distribution/circulation, access/accessibility, interaction, and economics.
104 citations
Book•
01 Mar 2009
TL;DR: The authors provide a descriptive and analytical tool for examining political discourse and will be welcomed by anyone interested in discourse analysis in general, and in political discourse in particular, and include the study of political discourse styles, the use of rhetorical strategies (vocabulary, metaphors, quotations, parentheticals, etc.), the relation between political discourse between society (legitimization, the private-public interface, identities), role of gestures in relation to speech, and how to build and exploit a political language corpus.
Abstract: Drawing on political discourse from a wide rage of settings and perspectives, this book is set to provide a descriptive and analytical tool for examining political discourse and will be welcomed by anyone interested in discourse analysis in general, and in political discourse in particular. Topics covered in this book include the study of political discourse styles, the use of rhetorical strategies (vocabulary, metaphors, quotations, parentheticals, etc.), the relation between political discourse and society (legitimization, the private-public interface, identities), role of gestures in relation to speech, methods for analysing political discourse, and how to build and exploit a political language corpus.
Journal Article•
TL;DR: In this webtext, it is proposed that new concepts are needed to discuss increasingly common rhetorical practices that are, think, not closely aligned with the ways in which rhetorical delivery has historically been situated.
Abstract: East Lansing , MI – In this webtext, we propose that new concepts are needed to discuss increasingly common rhetorical practices that are, we think, not closely aligned with the ways in which rhetorical delivery has historically been situated. We are specifically interested in situations where composers anticipate and strategize future third-party remixing of their compositions as part of a larger and complex rhetorical strategy that plays out across physical and digital spaces. We find this type of thinking—the asking of “how might the text be rewritten?” and “why, where, and for whom might this text be rewritten?”—an increasingly important set of questions in a digital age characterized, for instance, by swift, easy, and deep web searching and by copying and pasting practices.
TL;DR: The authors investigated the impact of class size on rhetorical and lexico-grammatical features of academic lecture introductions and found that a large audience seems to compel experienced lecturers to use more of certain discursive strategies as a way to create positive and friendly learning environments in settings that may not be particularly favorable for establishing such conditions.
Book•
14 Aug 2009
TL;DR: A Shout Out! as discussed by the authors introduces Critical Media Studies: Media Industries: Marxist, Organizational, and Pragmatic Perspectives, and Media Audiences: Reception, Erotic, and Ecological Perspectives.
Abstract: A Shout Out! 1. Introducing Critical Media Studies. Part I: Media Industries: Marxist, Organizational, and Pragmatic Perspectives. 2. Marxist Analysis. 3. Organizational Analysis. 4. Pragmatic Analysis. Part II:Media Messages: Rhetorical, Cultural, Psychoanalytic, Feminist, and Queer Perspectives. 5. Rhetorical Analysis. 6. Cultural Analysis. 7. Psychoanalytic Analysis. 8. Feminist Analysis. 9. Queer Analysis. Part III:Media Audiences: Reception, Erotic, and Ecological Perspectives. 10. Reception Analysis. 11. Erotic Analysis. 12. Ecological Analysis. 13. Conclusion: the Partial Pachyderm. Glossary. Index.
TL;DR: The material rhetoric of physical locations like the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art creates spaces of attention where visitors are invited to experience the landscape around them as a series of enactments that identify the inside/outside components of sub/urban existence, as well as the regenerative/transformative possibilities of such existence as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The material rhetoric of physical locations like the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art creates “spaces of attention” wherein visitors are invited to experience the landscape around them as a series of enactments that identify the inside/outside components of sub/urban existence, as well as the regenerative/transformative possibilities of such existence. Such rhetorical enactments create innovative opportunities for individuals to attend to the human/nature interface. These rhetorical enactments also create and contain tensions that come to the fore when they are employed as authentic mediations of nature, when they function as tropes to promote development of natural space, and/or when they are translated into discursive environmental argument.
TL;DR: The authors explored the reasons why China's rhetoric on its involvement with Africa has retained substantial continuities with the Maoist past, when virtually every other aspect of Maoism has been officially repudiated.
Abstract: China's official rhetoric on its relations with Africa is important; it frames, legitimates and renders comprehensible its foreign policy in this ever-important area of the world. This article explores the following puzzle: why China's rhetoric on its involvement with Africa has retained substantial continuities with the Maoist past, when virtually every other aspect of Maoism has been officially repudiated. Despite the burgeoning layers of complexity in China's increasing involvement in Africa, a set of surprisingly long-lived principles of non-interference, mutuality, friendship, non-conditional aid and analogous suffering at the hands of imperialism from the early 1960s to the present continue to be propagated. Newer notions of complementarity and international division of labour are beginning to come in, but the older rhetoric still dominates official discourse, at least in part because it continues to appeal to domestic Chinese audiences.
TL;DR: The authors argued that argumentation theories that do not see rhetoric as defined by its distinctive domain, apply an understanding of rhetoric that is historically inadequate, and further suggested that theories adopting this understanding of rhetorical argumentation risk ignoring important distinctive features of argumentation about action.
Abstract: Leading contemporary argumentation theories such as those of Ralph Johnson, van Eemeren and Houtlosser, and Tindale, in their attempt to address rhetoric, tend to define rhetorical argumentation with reference to (a) the rhetorical arguer’s goal (to persuade effectively), and (b) the means he employs to do so. However, a central strand in the rhetorical tradition itself, led by Aristotle, and arguably the dominant view, sees rhetorical argumentation as defined with reference to the domain of issues discussed. On that view, the domain of rhetorical argumentation is centered on choice of action in the civic sphere, and the distinctive nature of issues in this domain is considered crucial. Hence, argumentation theories such as those discussed, insofar as they do not see rhetoric as defined by its distinctive domain, apply an understanding of rhetoric that is historically inadequate. It is further suggested that theories adopting this understanding of rhetoric risk ignoring important distinctive features of argumentation about action.
01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: The authors applied the Discourse Historical Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (DHA) combined with argumentation theory and visual grammar to visual texts to investigate the explicit and indirect persuasive rhetorical and argumentative devices employed to construct fear of foreigners, migrants, and asylum seekers, and to convince voters of their potential danger.
Abstract: In this paper, we apply the Discourse Historical Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (DHA; see Wodak 2001, 2004, 2008b) combined with argumentation theory and visual grammar (Kress & Van Leeuwen 1996, 2001) to visual texts. Specifically we examine election posters and brochures to investigate the explicit and indirect persuasive rhetorical and argumentative devices employed to construct fear of foreigners, migrants, and asylum seekers, and to convince voters of their potential danger. Our texts are drawn from recent election materials produced by Austrian and British right-wing parties with an explicit xenophobic agenda. Our analysis seeks to detect similarities and differences in these new-old ‘law and order’ campaigns. We claim that the methodology, which we first present, is adequate to deconstruct the implied racist visual meanings.
TL;DR: The semantics distinguishes among the public commitments of each dialogue agent, including commitments to relational speech acts or rhetorical relations, and shows that this makes precise predictions about implicit agreement.
Abstract: This paper provides a logically precise analysis of agreement and disputes in dialogue. The semantics distinguishes among the public commitments of each dialogue agent, including commitments to relational speech acts or rhetorical relations (e.g. Narration, Explanation and Correction). Agreement is defined to be the shared entailments of the agents' public commitments. We show that this makes precise predictions about implicit agreement. The theory also provides a consistent interpretation of disputes and models what content is agreed upon when a dispute has taken place.
TL;DR: The authors compared and contrasted research articles in language and literary studies published in North American academic journals during 2001-2006 and found that in both disciplines, scholars utilize two rhetorical strategies to publicize their work: positive evaluation of their own study and of those investigations in which the current study is grounded; and negative evaluation of dissenting views.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the rhetorical work done by international organizations (IOs) as a legitimation strategy of IOs and show that global norms for corporate bankruptcy law employ rhetorical devices in four respects: propagating legitimation warrants, amplifying or compensating for IO warrants, and articulating formal rhetorical devices that carry their own warrants of legitimation.
Abstract: This paper focuses on a largely neglected aspect of legitimation in international organizations (IOs) - the rhetorical work done by IO scripts as a legitimation strategy of IOs. Based on extensive fieldwork and research from the mid-1990s to 2005 on regional and global IOs, we show that global norms for corporate bankruptcy law employ rhetorical devices in four respects. First, the normative texts produced by IOs draw upon a finite repertoire of rhetorical devices (a) to propagate legitimation warrants an IO wants visibly disseminated, (b) to amplify or compensate for IO warrants that may be weak; and (c) to articulate formal rhetorical devices that carry their own warrants of legitimation. Second, configurations of rhetorical devices in IO texts are affected by temporal contexts, such as exogenous shocks and the historical sequencing of IO norm production. Third, the negotiation of relations of IO interdependency, including competition and cooperation, are partly signaled and managed through the rhetorical constructions of respective IO products. Fourth, texts have their own properties, formal and substantive, that are crafted to be substantially self-validating.
14 May 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the authors question the existence of true implicit relations, those where there is no marking that indicates the presence of a relation, and present a number of open questions that can be used as starting points for course assignments and theses in this area.
Abstract: Jan Renkema, in his Introduction to Discourse Studies, describes current research in coherence relations (also called rhetorical or discourse relations), and lists a few open questions in that area. One of the most important issues, from both a theoretical and applied point of view, is the signaling of relations, that is, the explicit marking of the presence of a relation. In this paper, I question the existence of true implicit relations, those where there is no marking that indicates the presence of a relation. I present a number of open questions that can be used as starting points for course assignments and theses in this area.
TL;DR: This article reexamined the myths of the Greek goddess Metis as a means of enlivening rhetorical theory and history, connecting Metis to Medusa and to mestiza consciousness.
Abstract: The author argues that we have chosen a rhetorical history that normalizes and silences rhetorical bodies. In response, the author exhumes an embodied history of rhetoric, reexamining the myths of the Greek goddess Metis as a means of enlivening rhetorical theory and history. The author then connects these myths to other rhetorical traditions invoked by Helene Cixous and Gloria Anzaldua, connecting Metis to Medusa and to mestiza consciousness. The author affirms the rhetorical power of the body, specifically of those bodies that challenge rhetorical norms.
TL;DR: Barack Obama's address of March 18, 2008, sought to quell the controversy sparked by YouTube clips of his pastor, Jeremiah Wright of the Trinity United Church of Christ, condemning values and actions of the United States government.
Abstract: Barack Obama's address of March 18, 2008, sought to quell the controversy sparked by YouTube clips of his pastor, Jeremiah Wright of the Trinity United Church of Christ, condemning values and actions of the United States government. In this address, Obama crosses over the color line with a rhetorical strategy designed to preserve his viability as a presidential candidate and in so doing, delivered a rhetorical masterpiece that advances the cause of racial dialogue and rapprochement. Because of his mixed racial heritage, he could bring perceptions and misperceptions in black and white "hush harbors" into the light of critical reason. The address succeeds, I argue, because Obama sounds the prophetic voice of Africentric theology that merges the Jewish and Christian faith traditions with African American experience, assumes theological consilience (that different religious traditions share a commitment to caring for others), and enacts the rhetorical counterpart to Levinas's philosophy featuring the "face of the other."
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present empirically grounded case studies of knowledge in practice, and reflect theoretically upon the criteria by which expert knowledge is judged and the social processes of its validation.
Abstract: To demarginalize Africa and the Third World with regard to knowledge as well as in all other respects, to ensure ... that the margin be no longer margin but part and parcel of a multi-faceted whole, a centre of decision among other centres of decision, an autonomous centre of production among others, such is today a major task. But such appropriation by the periphery of all the useful knowledge supposes further, a conscious effort towards a critical but resolute re-appropriation of one's own practical and cognitive heritage, a negation of the marginality of one's endogenous knowledge and know-how, and a re-insertion of the 'traditional' into a living tradition that looks out to the future. (Hountondji 1997: 36) Paulin Hountondji's demands for the study of knowledge in Africa offer a suitable starting point for the theme of this special issue. His words flag up points of practical engagement and sketch a desirable perspective of Africa as a self-confident, forward-looking centre of knowledge production. This special issue contributes towards this endeavour by presenting empirically grounded case studies of 'knowledge in practice'. More specifically, the articles illustrate the construction and exercise of 'expertise' in numerous settings, and reflect theoretically upon the criteria by which expert knowledge is judged and the social processes of its validation. While the articles are analytical (rather than political), they respond to Hountondji's challenges by providing focused discussions on Africa's diverse 'practical and cognitive heritage'. They investigate the ways in which expertise and the transmission of knowledge are part of meaningful living traditions, grounded in everyday life and connected to the wider world. Notably, the epigraph is taken from Hountondji's introduction to a volume on 'endogenous knowledge' (1) that progressively explores the relations between Africa's longstanding traditions of science and literacy with its ever-present traditions of orality and myth. In contrast to Hountondji's earlier stance (see Hountondji 1996), the African researchers do not reinforce polarity and opposition, but instead testify to the complementary roles of orality and literacy in the transmission of knowledge. More recent scholarship has endorsed this view, showing that, in Africa and elsewhere, orality and speech performance interact with literacy and literary skills in more dynamic ways than was commonly assumed (Furniss 2004; Finnegan 2007; Barber 2007a). Even if the so-called 'great divide' between literate and non-literate communities persists in some grand (and rather abstract) social-historical narratives of 'civilization', in actual practice everywhere, speech forms the basis for rhetorical skills. Orality continues to be fundamental to the production and communication of knowledge in all societies, and nowhere has it been simply replaced by literacy. (2) Indeed, neither politics, nor religion, nor intellectual progress can be realized, or imagined, without the direct 'interaction rituals' of face-to-face dialogue (on the latter, see Collins 1998: Chapter 1). The function of language, whether spoken or written, is duly recognized as pivotal to any knowledge economy; (3) but the acting body, too, is integral to the formation, acquisition, expression and continual transformation of knowledge (Marchand 2007). Though propositional and embodied forms of knowledge differ in significant ways (in terms of the cognitive apparatuses that give rise to them and their respective modes of expression), they are nevertheless mutually constitutive and cannot be isolated, one from the other, in studying 'expert' performance or knowledge transmission. Marcel Mauss's seminal contribution (1934) to our understanding of the body as a nexus of social and cultural knowledge, technical skill and habitual activity was most famously elaborated by Bourdieu (1977). Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological studies of the senses and perception likewise designated the body as the locus of human knowledge and experience (1962). …
TL;DR: The authors examines the discourse of Stewart and Colbert, two of the most prominent political comedians in America, and shows that they use three rhetorical strategies to critically reframe American political discourses: parodic polyglossia, satirical specificity and contextual clash.
Abstract: This essay examines the discourse of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, two of the most prominent political comedians in America. Kenneth Burke's theories of perspective by incongruity and the comic frame provide a general structure for surveying Stewart and Colbert's comic strategies on their nightly television shows, and their roles across various media events. Stewart and Colbert use three rhetorical strategies, in particular, to critically reframe American political discourses: (a) parodic polyglossia; (b) satirical specificity; and (c) contextual clash. By illustrating how these strategies of incongruity are employed, this essay demonstrates that Stewart and Colbert are comic rhetorical critics, who both make important contributions to public discourse and civil society.
TL;DR: This article explored how emotion talk furnishes teaching identity claims and mediates instruction in/about the environment, and found that emotion discourses are means to help account for and concretely realize the pedagogy of environmental education.
Abstract: Emotions are important aspects in/for the pedagogy of environmental education (EE). However, the literature on the relationship between emotions and EE has not explored how emotion talk furnishes teaching identity claims and mediates instruction in/about the environment. Therefore, the present study draws on two ethnographic case studies to investigate the rhetorical and situational use of emotion discursive categories in interviews and authentic EE learning situations. Our findings suggest that rather than just being an outcome of effective instructional models designed to instill an environmental consciousness in students, emotion discourses are means to help account for and concretely realize the pedagogy of EE.
Book•
10 Aug 2009
TL;DR: Gunderson et al. as discussed by the authors presented an archaeological study of rhetorical practice and performance in early Christianity, focusing on the role of status, stature, and verbal contest in Archaic poetry.
Abstract: Introduction Erik Gunderson Part I. An Archaeology of Rhetoric: 1. Fighting words: status, stature, and verbal contest in Archaic poetry Nancy Worman 2. The philosophy of rhetoric and the rhetoric of philosophy Robert Wardy 3. Codifications of rhetoric Malcolm Heath Part II. The Field of Language: 4. Divisions of speech Catherine Steel 5. Rhetoric, aesthetics, and the voice James Porter 6. The rhetoric of rhetorical theory Erik Gunderson 7. The politics of rhetorical education Joy Connolly Part III. The Practice of Rhetoric: 8. Types of oratory Jon Hesk 9. Rhetoric of the Athenian citizen Victoria Wohl 10. Rhetoric and the Roman Republic John Dugan 11. Staging rhetoric in Athens David Rosenbloom 12. The drama of rhetoric at Rome William Batstone 13. Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic Simon Goldhill Part IV. Epilogues: 14. Rhetorical practice and performance in early Christianity Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele 15. Rediscoveries of Classical rhetoric Peter Mack 16. The runaround: a volume retrospect on ancient rhetorics John Henderson Part V. Appendices: 17. Appendix 1: rhetorical terms 18. Appendix 2: authors and prominent individuals.
12 Aug 2009
TL;DR: Moreno et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a cross-disciplinary study of the evaluation and review of academic book reviews in English and Spanish, focusing on gender, race, and gender identity.
Abstract: Introduction: Academic Evaluation and Review Genres K.Hyland & G.Diani PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF REVIEW GENRES Negotiating Research Values across Review Genres: A Case Study in Applied Linguistics D.S.Giannoni Reviewing Science in an Information-Overloaded World J.Noguchi Literature Reviews in Applied PhD Theses: Evidence and Problems P.Thompson Back Cover Blurbs: Puff Pieces and Windows on Cultural Values H.Basturkmen PART II: DISCIPLINARY VARIATION Reporting and Evaluation in English Book Review Articles: A Cross-Disciplinary Study G.Diani Discipline and Gender: Constructing Rhetorical Identity in Book Reviews P.Tse & K.Hyland Phraseology and Epistemology in Academic Book Reviews: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Two Humanities Disciplines N.Groom PART III: CROSS-LINGUISTIC VARIATION (Non-) Critical Voices in the Reviewing of History Discourse: A Cross-Cultural Study of Evaluation R.Lores Sanz Academic Book Reviews in English and Spanish: Critical Comments and Rhetorical Structure A.I.Moreno & L.Suarez Historians at Work. Reporting Frameworks in English and Italian Book Review Articles M.Bondi PART IV: DIACHRONIC VARIATION On the Dynamic Nature of Genre: A Diachronic Study of Blurbs M-L.Gea-Valor & M.Inigo Ros The Lexis and Grammar of Explicit Evaluation in Academic Book Reviews, 1913 and 1993 P.Shaw Index