Rhetoric in Detail

Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text

Editors

Barbara Johnstone | Carnegie Mellon University

Christopher Eisenhart | University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

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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.

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 31] 2008. viii, 330 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 October 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.31

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction

1. Discourse analysis in rhetorical studies

Christopher Eisenhart and Barbara Johnstone | pp. 3–21

Part II. Style and legitimation

Studying style and legitimation: Critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis

Sean Zdenek and Barbara Johnstone | pp. 25–31

2. Talking the (political) talk: Cold War refugees and their political legitimation through style

Andreea Deciu Ritivoi | pp. 33–56

3. Reporting Waco: The constitutive work of bureaucratic style

Christopher Eisenhart | pp. 57–79

4. The rhetoric of temporality: The future as linguistic construct and rhetorical resource

Patricia L. Dunmire | pp. 81–111

5. The intertextual forging of epideictic discourse: Construals of victims in the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty Hearings

Susan Lawrence | pp. 113–138

Part III. Identity and agency

Studying identity and agency: CDA, interactional sociolinguistics, narrative analysis, grounded theory

Barbara Johnstone | pp. 141–145

6. Muted voices: Cochlear implants, news discourse, and the public fascination with curing deafness

Sean Zdenek | pp. 147–171

7. "American Humor" versus "Indian Humor": Indentity, ethos, and rhetorical situation

Neeta Bhasin | pp. 173–193

8. Ethos and narrative in online educational chat

Martha Sylvia Cheng | pp. 195–226

9. Disciplinary rhetorics, rhetorical agency, and the construction of voice

Amanda Young | pp. 227–246

Part IV. Entextualizing controversy

Studying entextualization and controversy: CDA, participant observation, computer-aided corpus analysis

Barbara Johnstone | pp. 249–253

10. How a media controversy can influence a scientific publication: The case of Robert L. Spitzer’s “reparative therapy” study

Craig O. Stewart | pp. 255–278

11. Controversy as a media event category

Peter A. Cramer | pp. 279–305

12. Analyzing everyday talk about social issues

Susan Gilpin | pp. 307–325

Index | pp. 327–330

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Subjects

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Pragmatics

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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