Rhetorical Hermeneutics

Rhetorical Hermeneutics

Author: Alan G. Gross

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780791431108

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Examines the nature of rhetorical theory and criticism, the rhetoric of science, and the impact of poststructuralism and postmodernism on contemporary accounts of rhetoric.


Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric

Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric

Author: Ward Farnsworth

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1567924670

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Ward Farnsworth details the timeless principles of rhetoric from Ancient Greece to the present day, drawing on examples in the English language of consummate masters of prose, such as Lincoln, Churchill, Dickens, Melville, and Burke.


How to Read Like a Writer

How to Read Like a Writer

Author: Mike Bunn

Publisher: The Saylor Foundation

Published:

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13:

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When you Read Like a Writer (RLW) you work to identify some of the choices the author made so that you can better understand how such choices might arise in your own writing. The idea is to carefully examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text in order to decide if you might want to adopt similar (or the same) techniques in your writing. You are reading to learn about writing. Instead of reading for content or to better understand the ideas in the writing (which you will automatically do to some degree anyway), you are trying to understand how the piece of writing was put together by the author and what you can learn about writing by reading a particular text. As you read in this way, you think about how the choices the author made and the techniques that he/she used are influencing your own responses as a reader. What is it about the way this text is written that makes you feel and respond the way you do?


Beyond Rhetorical Questions

Beyond Rhetorical Questions

Author: Irene Koshik

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9789027226266

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This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends arguing over the phone, parents disciplining children, news interviews, and second language writing conferences. The questions are used across these widely different contexts to perform a number of related social actions such as accusations, challenges to prior turns, and complaints. Those used in institution settings, such as teacher-student conferences, orient to institutional norms and roles and can help accomplish institutional goals, e.g., eliciting student error correction. Both the interactional context in which these questions are embedded and the known epistemic authority of the questioner play a role in our understanding of these questions, i.e., what social actions the question is accomplishing in a particular interaction.


Rhetorical Questions

Rhetorical Questions

Author: 後藤リサ

Publisher: ひつじ書房

Published: 2018-02-16

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 4894768836

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本書は、日本語および英語における修辞疑問文の発話解釈の仕組みを、関連性理論の枠組で探究するものである。従来の修辞疑問文研究の中で典型的に扱われてきた反語タイプの発話例のみならず、非反語タイプの発話例や、さらには弱いレベルで修辞性が伝達され情報要請との境界線があいまいな例、皮肉などの話者態度を伴うことで修辞性が暗に示される例等の非典型例も分析対象とし、包括的な修辞性の認知メカニズムを解明する。 【英語による内容紹介】 Traditional accounts of rhetorical questions have focused on polarity reversal: rhetorical questions conveying assertions opposite in polarity to the propositional content. However, non-polarity-reversed and rhetorically ambiguous interrogatives are also common. In this book, Risa Goto seeks a theoretical approach that can explain this pragmatic ambiguity with respect to rhetoricity. The relevance theoretic view of interrogative and ironical utterances assumes no clear-cut borderline between information-seeking and rhetorical use of interrogative utterances. The cognitive model of irony suggests that recognition of ironicalness necessarily leads to a rhetorical reading. Goto combines these two theoretical frameworks into an entirely new cognitive-pragmatic model of interrogatives, discussing the causal interrelation between rhetoricity and ironicalness and showing that ironical aspects in interrogative utterances can lead to rhetorical readings.


The Questions of Jesus in John

The Questions of Jesus in John

Author: Douglas Charles Estes

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-10-19

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9004240292

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Why do the New Testament gospels depict a Jesus who asks questions almost as often as he gives answers? In The Questions of Jesus in John Douglas Estes crafts a highly interdisciplinary theory of question-asking based on insights from ancient rhetoric and modern erotetics (the study of interrogatives) in order to investigate the logical and rhetorical purposes of Jesus' questions in the Gospel of John. While scholarly discussion about Jesus cares more for what he says, and not what he asks, Estes argues a better understanding of the rhetorical and dialectical roles of questions in ancient narratives sheds a more accurate light on both John’s narrative art and Jesus' message in the Fourth Gospel.


WHEREAS

WHEREAS

Author: Layli Long Soldier

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1555979610

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The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.


The Art Of Rhetoric

The Art Of Rhetoric

Author: Aristotle

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2014-09-02

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1443440817

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In The Art of Rhetoric, Aristotle demonstrates the purpose of rhetoric—the ability to convince people using your skill as a speaker rather than the validity or logic of your arguments—and outlines its many forms and techniques. Defining important philosophical terms like ethos, pathos, and logos, Aristotle establishes the earliest foundations of modern understanding of rhetoric, while providing insight into its historic role in ancient Greek culture. Aristotle’s work, which dates from the fourth century B.C., was written while the author lived in Athens, remains one of the most influential pillars of philosophy and has been studied for centuries by orators, public figures, and politicians alike. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.