Category: Rhetoric

By Michael Toolan

Certainly one of our Most worthy capacities is our skill in part to foretell what is going to come subsequent in a textual content. yet linguistic knowing of this continues to be very restricted, specially in genres corresponding to the quick tale the place there's a staging of the conflict among predictability and unpredictability. This booklet proposes matrix of narrativity-furthering textual good points is essential to the reader’s forming of expectancies approximately how a literary tale will proceed to its shut. Toolan makes use of corpus linguistic software program and strategies, and stylistic and narratological idea, during delineating the matrix of 8 parameters that he sees as the most important to making narrative development and expectation. The booklet could be of curiosity to stylisticians, narratologists, corpus linguists, and brief tale students.

By T. Edward Damer

More and more university classes and courses require a severe pondering component--and comprise assignments intended to degree your serious pondering abilities. ATTACKING defective REASONING: a pragmatic advisor TO FALLACY-FREE ARGUMENTS, 6th variation, may also help brush up on those skills--and methods to strengthen the logical, persuasive arguments you wish now and all through your profession. this beneficial instruction manual addresses greater than 60 universal fallacies of common sense with the aid of over 2 hundred memorable examples. It offers reasons and assistance for warding off unsuitable pondering, and is a perfect source whilst writing papers, essays, or arguments.

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Masking a large variety of rhetorical views, Rhetorical feedback: views in motion provides a radical, available, and well-grounded creation to rhetorical feedback. that includes nineteen chapters written via nationally famous students, the quantity bargains the main finished advent to rhetorical feedback to be had.

By Susan E. Phillips

In contemporary a long time, students have proven an expanding curiosity in gossip's social, mental, and literary features. the 1st book-length examine of medieval gossip, reworking speak shifts the present debate and argues that gossip services essentially as a transformative discourse, influencing not just social interactions but in addition literary and non secular practices. often called 'jangling' in center English, gossip used to be believed to deprave parishioners, disturb the peace, and reason civil and religious unrest. yet gossip used to be additionally a efficient cultural strength; it reconfigured pastoral perform, catalyzed narrative experimentation, and restructured social and familial relationships. reworking speak will entice a various viewers, together with students drawn to past due medieval tradition, faith, and society; Chaucer; and ladies within the center a while.

By Mary M. Kennedy

Utilizing the educating of writing as a topic concentration, this quantity describes how students take into consideration instructing after they input a programme, exhibits how their pondering alterations over the years and attributes the character and path of those alterations to the content material and personality of the programmes.

By George A. Kennedy

George Kennedy's 3 volumes on classical rhetoric have lengthy been considered as authoritative remedies of the topic. This new quantity, an in depth revision and abridgment of The artwork of Persuasion in Greece, The artwork of Rhetoric within the Roman World, and Greek Rhetoric below Christian Emperors, presents a complete historical past of classical rhetoric, one who is bound to turn into a customary for its time.

Kennedy starts by means of settling on the rhetorical positive factors of early Greek literature that expected the formula of "metarhetoric," or a concept of rhetoric, within the 5th and fourth centuries b.c.e. after which strains the improvement of that idea during the Greco-Roman interval. He provides an account of the educating of literary and oral composition in faculties, and of Greek and Latin oratory because the fundamental rhetorical style. He additionally discusses the overlapping disciplines of historic philosophy and faith and their interplay with rhetoric. the result's a wide and interesting background of classical rhetoric that would end up specially worthy for college students and for others who wish an summary of classical rhetoric in condensed form.

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By Richard A. Lanham

This outstanding little publication, meant as a complement for any path that calls for writing, types a transparent, step by step approach for growing straight-forward, concise, intelligible and readable prose.

By Dr Neil Murray

English language and linguistics stocks lots of its writing conventions with these of alternative disciplines, yet there are particular beneficial properties and expectancies that distinguish it as a topic. This e-book is written particularly to aid undergraduate scholars of English language and linguistics increase the paintings of writing essays, initiatives and studies. Written through an writer with over 30 years' event of lecturing within the topic, it's a entire and extremely readable source and comprises a number of discipline-related examples, perform routines and a solution key. It comprises chapters on referencing (including plagiarism, paraphrase and suggestions on referencing styles), stylistic matters that frequently get ignored, and writing a dissertation. The booklet bargains useful tips and a structure that courses scholars as they paintings notwithstanding their venture. will probably be a useful reference device that scholars can learn disguise to hide or dip into as and whilst required.

By Karl-Heinz Anton

Buchhandelstext
Der boshaften Rhetorik, fachm?nnisch Eristik genannt, ist jedes Mittel recht. Bissig, b?swillig und skrupellos kommt sie daher. Ihr einziges erkl?rtes Ziel ist, im Wortstreit den Sieg davonzutragen. Karl-Heinz Anton informiert ?ber die Techniken der Eristik wie Maskierung, Schwachstellen- oder Wortschwalltaktik und liefert das notwendige Instrumentarium gleich mit. Neu in der 2. Auflage sind Fallbeispiele zu verschiedenen Vorgehensweisen wie Abpralltechnik, Standpunkt-, Erfahrungs-, Trend-, Unverst?ndlichkeits- und Relativit?tsstrategie.

Inhalt
Eristik im Vergleich zu Rhetorik und Dialektik Die 20 wichtigsten Diskussions- und Argumentationsfehler, z. B.: Sei p?nktlich! Die 50 erfolgreichsten eristischen Techniken, z. B. Schikane, Ablenkungsman?ver, Gegenbeispiel, Wortschwalltaktik

Zielgruppe
F?hrungskr?fte und supervisor Fachkr?fte Alle, die sich in Besprechungen und Verhandlungen erfolgreich gegen unfaire Argumentation durchsetzen wollen

?ber den Autor/Hrsg
Dr. Karl-Heinz Anton, Sozialphilosoph, ist Privatdozent an der Gesamthochsschule Siegen und gefrager Referent f?r Rhetorikseminare. Er hat eine gruppendynamische Ausbildung und ist gepr?fter Sprecherzieher.

By Geoff Barton

Grammar in Context enables you to see grammar in motion via quite a lot of genuine fiction and non-fiction textual content - together with autobiography, shuttle writing, details texts, newspaper articles, polemical writing, speeches, leaflets and diaries.
Each part - targeting a distinct point of grammar and language - appears at how writers have used language that allows you to toughen that means and develop the influence of what they write.
A grammar reference part offers the entire nuts and bolts of English grammar for a person who wishes a brief refresher direction whereas operating in the course of the e-book.