1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974268303321

Titolo

The SAGE handbook of rhetorical studies / / edited by Andrea A. Lunsford ; associate editors, Kirt H. Wilson, Rosa A. Eberly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, : SAGE, 2009

ISBN

9781412982795 (ebook) :

9781483343433

148334343X

9781782688761

1782688765

9781452212036

1452212031

9781412982795

1412982790

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxix, 680 p.) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

LunsfordAndrea A. <1942->

WilsonKirt H. <1967->

EberlyRosa A

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Rhetoric

Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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



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

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809193103321

Autore

Aven T (Terje)

Titolo

Foundations of risk analysis / / Terje Aven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012

ISBN

9786613446336

9781119945789

111994578X

9781283446334

1283446332

9781119945482

1119945488

9781119945475

111994547X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

519.5

Soggetti

Risk assessment - Statistical methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



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

Sommario/riassunto

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