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  • Behind the Tweets

    by David Kaufer ...
    Social media and Twitter are impacting all facets of society. How are people using social media in their work and life (even love life?). Read insights from 25 unique Twitter users from all over the globe: sports writers, news anchors, corporate PR executives and small business owners - and hear in their own words how social media has dramatically changed their worlds.Includes interviews with ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hillary Clinton's Career in Speeches

    The Promises and Perils of Women's Rhetorical Adaptivity

    by Shawn J. Parry-Giles, David S Kaufer, Xizhen Cai ...
    Women candidates are under more pressure to communicate competence and likability than men. And when women balance these rhetorical pressures, charges of inauthenticity creep in, suggesting the structural and strategic anti-woman backlash at play in presidential politics. Hillary Clinton demonstrated considerable ability to adapt her rhetoric across roles, contexts, genres, and audiences. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Memories of Lincoln and the Splintering of American Political Thought

    by Shawn J. Parry-Giles, David S. Kaufer ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    In the aftermath of the Civil War, Republicans and Democrats who advocated conflicting visions of American citizenship could agree on one thing: the rhetorical power of Abraham Lincoln’s life. This volume examines the debates over his legacy and their impact on America’s future.In the thirty-five years following Lincoln’s assassination, acquaintances of Lincoln published their memories of him in ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Rhetoric and the Arts of Design

    by David S. Kaufer, Brian S. Butler ...
    The design arts -- from the design of buildings and machines to software and interfaces -- are associated with types of knowledge and performance thought to be structured, modular, and systematic. Such arts have become increasingly prestigious in our technocratic society. Since Aristotle, the art of rhetoric was conceived as a loosely structured "practical" art thought to be limited in the extent ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Communication at A Distance

    The Influence of Print on Sociocultural Organization and Change

    by David S. Kaufer, Kathleen M. Carley ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    This book bridges an important gap between two major approaches to mass communication -- historical and social scientific. To do so, it employs a theory of communication that unifies social, cultural and technological concerns into a systematic and formal framework that is then used to examine the impact of print within the larger socio-cultural context and across multiple historical contexts. The ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Designing Interactive Worlds With Words

    Principles of Writing As Representational Composition

    by David S. Kaufer, Brian S. Butler ...
    No two writing situations are exactly the same and skilled writers, like skilled painters, must develop the know-how to represent the objects of their writing as part of a flexible art. This special art of writing lies hidden between grammar--the well-formedness of sentences--and genre--the capacity of texts to perform culturally holistic communicative functions (e.g., the memo, the strategic ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Power of Words

    Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft

    by David S. Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki, Brian S. Butler, Jeff Collins ...
    In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that "the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter." We recognize differences between a politician who is "willful" and one who is "willing" even though the difference does not cross word-stems or parts of speech. We recognize that being ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Democracy Reconsidered

    by David Alvis, Martha Bayles, James W. Ceaser, Eric Cohen, Jocelyn Jones Evans, Gayle McKeen, Michael Papazian, David Ramsey, Carl Eric Scott, Paul Seaton, Matthew Sitman, John Seery, Brian A. Smith, Ann Hartle, Joseph M. Knippenberg, Peter Augustine Lawler ...
    Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine the lessons that novelists, philosophers, and political theorists have for democratic societies as ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village

    Selected Papers From the 1998 Thirtieth Anniversary Rhetoric Society of America Conference

    Edited by C. Jan Swearingen, David S. Kaufer ...
    Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village represents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines, and includes such diverse topics as race, technology, and religion, demonstrating the expanding relevance of rhetoric in today's world. The essays included in this volume address the question of the polis in ancient and modern times, gradually converging with the more recent 30 ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion

    An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind

    by Michael Burke ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
    This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and especially about the role that emotion plays. Burk’s theoretical and empirical study focuses on three ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Social Science

    by Alexander Rosenberg ...
    Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, history, and the disciplines emerging at the intersections of these subjects with biology. Philosophy is unavoidable for social scientists because the choices they make in answering ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Discovery of Grounded Theory

    Strategies for Qualitative Research

    by Barney Glaser, Anselm Strauss ...
    Most writing on sociological method has been concerned with how accurate facts can be obtained and how theory can thereby be more rigorously tested. In The Discovery of Grounded Theory, Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss address the equally Important enterprise of how the discovery of theory from data—systematically obtained and analyzed in social research—can be furthered. The discovery of theory ... Read more

    $65.99 USD