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Kenneth Burke and Contemporary European Thought

Rhetoric in Transition

University of Alabama Press

Insights into the problem of our relation to language

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Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent

University of Alabama Press

Essays strive to parse out the nature of assent

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The Cultural Prison

Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment

University of Alabama Press

The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments.

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President Johnson's War On Poverty

Rhetoric and History

University of Alabama Press

Illustrates the interweaving of rhetorical and historical forces in shaping public policy

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See It Now Confronts McCarthyism

Television Documentary and the Politics of Representation

University of Alabama Press

Seeks evidence from media artifacts to reveal aesthetic, cultural, ideological, generic, and historical dimensions from classic television broadcasts

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A Voice Of Their Own

The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840-1910

Edited by Martha Solomon
University of Alabama Press

A Voice of Their Own explores the consciousness-raising role of the American Suffrage press of the latter half of the 19th century

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Rhetorical Dimensions Of Popular Culture

University of Alabama Press

Supports the argument that rhetoric needs to be conceptualized as the social function that influences and manages meaning

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A Pragmatic Theory of Fallacy

University of Alabama Press

Takes a new analytical look at the concept of fallacy and presents an up-to-date analysis of its usefulness for argumentation studies
 

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Doing Rhetorical History

Concepts and Cases

University of Alabama Press

This collection argues that rhetorical history, both as a methodology
and as a perspective, offers insights that are central to the study of
communication and unavailable through other approaches.

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A Theory of Argumentation

University of Alabama Press

Establishes a theoretical context for, and to elaborate the implications of, the claim that argument is a form of interaction in which two or more people maintain what they construe to be incompatible positions

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