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UNINA9910974268303321 |
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The SAGE handbook of rhetorical studies / / edited by Andrea A. Lunsford ; associate editors, Kirt H. Wilson, Rosa A. Eberly |
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Los Angeles, : SAGE, 2009 |
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9781412982795 (ebook) : |
9781483343433 |
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9781782688761 |
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9781452212036 |
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9781412982795 |
1412982790 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (xxix, 680 p.) : ill |
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LunsfordAndrea A. <1942-> |
WilsonKirt H. <1967-> |
EberlyRosa A |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Historical Studies in Rhetoric; 1 - Historiography and the Study of Rhetoric; 2 - Rhetorical Archaeology; 3 - Medieval and Renaissance Rhetorical Studies of Women; 4 - Recovering, Revisioning, and Regendering the History of 18th- and 19th-Century Rhetorical Theory and Practice; 5 - Coping With Modernity; 6 - The Study of Argumentation; 7 - Rhetoric of Religion; 8 - Feminist Perspectives on the History of Rhetoric; 9 - Recent Advances in Comparative Rhetoric; PART II - Rhetoric Across the Disciplines |
10 - The Rhetoric of the Natural Sciences11 - The Rhetoric of Economics; 12 - Rhetoric in Literary Criticism and Theory; 13 - Rhetoric |
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of Health and Medicine; 14 - Rhetoric and International Relations; 15 - The Rhetoric of Interdisciplinarity; PART III: Rhetoric and Pedagogy; 16 - Rhetoric and (?) Composition; 17 - Intercollegiate Debate and Speech Communication; 18 - The Consequences of Rhetoricand Literacy; 19 - Echoes From the Past; 20 - Civic Participation and the Undergraduate Curriculum; 21 - Visual Rhetoric and/as Critical Pedagogy; 22 - A Century After the Divorce |
PART IV: Rhetoric and Public Discourse23 - History of Public Discourse Studies; 24 - Race, Sex, and Class in Rhetorical Criticism; 25 - Rhetoric and Critical Theory; 26 - Digital Rhetoric and Public Discourse; 27 - Arts of Address in Revolutionary America; 28 - Explosive Words and Glimmers of Hope; 29 - For the Common Good; 30 - Religious Voices in American Public Discourse; 31 - Between Touchstones and Touch Screens; 32 - Social Movement Rhetoric; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors |
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This handbook brings together top scholars and researchers from across the disciplines who are doing work in rhetorical studies. The book addresses and explores fundamental issues and pivotal questions about the role of rhetoric in history and in today's society. |
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UNINA9910809193103321 |
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Autore |
Aven T (Terje) |
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Foundations of risk analysis / / Terje Aven |
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 |
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9786613446336 |
9781119945789 |
111994578X |
9781283446334 |
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9781119945475 |
111994547X |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (229 p.) |
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Risk assessment - Statistical methods |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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FOUNDATIONS OF RISK ANALYSIS; Contents; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The importance of risk and uncertainty assessments; 1.2 The need to develop a proper risk analysis framework; Bibliographic notes; 2 Common thinking about risk and risk analysis; 2.1 Accident risk; 2.1.1 Accident statistics; 2.1.2 Risk analysis; 2.1.3 Reliability analysis; 2.2 Economic risk; 2.2.1 General definitions of economic risk in business and project management; 2.2.2 A cost risk analysis; 2.2.3 Finance and portfolio theory |
2.2.4 Treatment of risk in project discounted cash flow analysis2.3 Discussion and conclusions; 2.3.1 The classical approach; 2.3.2 The Bayesian paradigm; 2.3.3 Economic risk and rational decision-making; 2.3.4 Other perspectives and applications; 2.3.5 Conclusions; Bibliographic notes; 3 How to think about risk and risk analysis; 3.1 Basic ideas and principles; 3.1.1 Background knowledge; 3.1.2 Models and simplifications in probability considerations; 3.1.3 Observable |
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quantities; 3.2 Economic risk; 3.2.1 A simple cost risk example; 3.2.2 Production risk; 3.2.3 Business and project management |
3.2.4 Investing money in a stock market3.2.5 Discounted cash flow analysis; 3.3 Accident risk; 3.4 Discussion; Bibliographic notes; 4 How to assess uncertainties and specify probabilities; 4.1 What is a good probability assignment?; 4.1.1 Criteria for evaluating probabilities; 4.1.2 Heuristics and biases; 4.1.3 Evaluation of the assessors; 4.1.4 Standardization and consensus; 4.2 Modeling; 4.2.1 Examples of models; 4.2.2 Discussion; 4.3 Assessing uncertainty of Y; 4.3.1 Assignments based on classical statistical methods; 4.3.2 Analyst judgments using all sources of information |
4.3.3 Formal expert elicitation4.3.4 Bayesian analysis; 4.4 Uncertainty assessments of a vector X; 4.4.1 Cost risk; 4.4.2 Production risk; 4.4.3 Reliability analysis; 4.5 Discussion; 4.5.1 Risk analysis and science; 4.5.2 Probability and utility; 4.5.3 Probability and knowledge; 4.5.4 Probability models; 4.5.5 Firm and vague probabilities; 4.5.6 The need for seeing beyond probabilities; 4.5.7 Interval (imprecise) probabilities; 4.5.8 Example of interval (imprecise) probabilities in a risk analysis setting; 4.5.9 Possibility theory |
4.5.10 Example of interval (imprecise) probabilities in a risk analysis context using possibility theory4.5.11 Final comments; Bibliographic notes; 5 How to use risk analysis to support decision-making; 5.1 What is a good decision?; 5.1.1 Features of a decision-making model; 5.1.2 Decision-support tools; 5.1.3 Discussion; 5.2 Some examples; 5.2.1 Accident risk; 5.2.2 Scrap in place or complete removal of plant; 5.2.3 Production system; 5.2.4 Reliability target; 5.2.5 Health risk; 5.2.6 Warranties; 5.2.7 Offshore development project; 5.2.8 Risk assessment: National sector |
5.2.9 Multi-attribute utility example |
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Foundations of Risk Analysis presents the issues core to risk analysis - understanding what risk means, expressing risk, building risk models, addressing uncertainty, and applying probability models to real problems. The author provides the readers with the knowledge and basic thinking they require to successfully manage risk and uncertainty to support decision making. This updated edition reflects recent developments on risk and uncertainty concepts, representations and treatment. New material in Foundations of Risk Analysis includes: An up to |
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