Table of contents
Part I. Introduction
1. Discourse analysis in rhetorical studies
Part II. Style and legitimation
Studying style and legitimation: Critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis
2. Talking the (political) talk: Cold War refugees and their political legitimation through style
3. Reporting Waco: The constitutive work of bureaucratic style
4. The rhetoric of temporality: The future as linguistic construct and rhetorical resource
5. The intertextual forging of epideictic discourse: Construals of victims in the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission Amnesty Hearings
Part III. Identity and agency
Studying identity and agency: CDA, interactional sociolinguistics, narrative analysis, grounded theory
6. Muted voices: Cochlear implants, news discourse, and the public fascination with curing deafness
7. "American Humor" versus "Indian Humor": Indentity, ethos, and rhetorical situation
8. Ethos and narrative in online educational chat
9. Disciplinary rhetorics, rhetorical agency, and the construction of voice
Part IV. Entextualizing controversy
Studying entextualization and controversy: CDA, participant observation, computer-aided corpus analysis
10. How a media controversy can influence a scientific publication: The case of Robert L. Spitzer’s “reparative therapy” study
11. Controversy as a media event category
12. Analyzing everyday talk about social issues
Index
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