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Author: Lotte Dam ,
Lise-Lotte Holmgreen ,
Jeanne Strunck
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Weight: 0.236kg
ISBN: 9781847186591
ISBN 10: 1847186599
Pages: 425
Publication Date: 02 October 2008
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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This wide-ranging book offers new insights into crucial aspects of the public sphere-politics, journalism and the corporate world. A deeply rooted European tradition, the study of rhetoric, has re-appeared in the contemporary world, a world in which the public display of persuasive language seems to be the very essence of our self-understanding. Using up-to-date approaches to discourse analysis, the contributors to this volume deploy rhetorical analysis in a way that illuminates the nature of the rhetorical maelstrom that engulfs us in today's societies, and has been doing so at an accelerating pace for the last half century. This is an important volume indeed for anybody who is trying to make sense of the rising flood of daily discourse. Paul Chilton, Lancaster University
'This wide-ranging book offers new insights into crucial aspects of the public sphere—politics, journalism and the corporate world. A deeply rooted European tradition, the study of rhetoric, has re-appeared in the contemporary world, a world in which the public display of persuasive language seems to be the very essence of our self-understanding. Using up-to-date approaches to discourse analysis, the contributors to this volume deploy rhetorical analysis in a way that illuminates the nature of the rhetorical maelstrom that engulfs us in today's societies, and has been doing so at an accelerating pace for the last half century. This is an important volume indeed for anybody who is trying to make sense of the rising flood of daily discourse.'Paul Chilton, Lancaster University
This wide-ranging book offers new insights into crucial aspects of the public sphere-politics, journalism and the corporate world. A deeply rooted European tradition, the study of rhetoric, has re-appeared in the contemporary world, a world in which the public display of persuasive language seems to be the very essence of our self-understanding. Using up-to-date approaches to discourse analysis, the contributors to this volume deploy rhetorical analysis in a way that illuminates the nature of the rhetorical maelstrom that engulfs us in today's societies, and has been doing so at an accelerating pace for the last half century. This is an important volume indeed for anybody who is trying to make sense of the rising flood of daily discourse. Paul Chilton, Lancaster University
Author Information
Lotte Dam, Lise-Lotte Holmgreen and Jeanne Strunck are all Associate Professors of Linguistics, Discourse and (intercultural) Communication in the Department of Language and Culture at Aalborg University, Denmark. In 2006, they organised the first conference on 'Rhetoric in Society', from which the contributions in this book emerged.
