Persuading People

Introduction to Rhetoric

Robert Cockcroft, Susan Cockcroft (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

1992
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-47162-3 (ISBN)

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A study of persuasive techniques in English and is designed as an introduction for students. The volume aims to clarify the complexities of persuasive language - both written and spoken - and enables students to develop their own rhetorical skills.

This study of persuasive techniques in English is designed as an introduction for students. The volume aims to clarify the complexities of persuasive language - both written and spoken - and enables students to develop their own rhetorical skills. Part one considers the sources of persuasion, part two analyzes rhetoric in action, using a variety of extracts and examples and part three demonstrates the interaction between rhetoric and current critical and linguisitic theories.

Introduction: rhetoric defined. Part 1 The sources of persuasion: personality and stance; emotional engagement; reason; choice and judgement. Part 2 Persuasion in action: the persuasive process; the persuasive repertoire; afterword - further roles for rhetoric. Part 3 The interface - further roles for rhetoric: between literature and language studies; between critical theory and practice.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.8.1992
Zusatzinfo	index, bibliography, appendices
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	234 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-333-47162-8 / 0333471628
ISBN-13	978-0-333-47162-3 / 9780333471623
Zustand	Neuware