1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955460403321

Titolo

Beyond postprocess and postmodernism : essays on the spaciousness of rhetoric / / edited by Theresa Enos, Keith D. Miller ; Jill McCracken, assistant editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

ISBN

1-135-70555-0

1-282-32197-8

9786612321979

1-4106-0705-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EnosTheresa

MillerKeith D

McCrackenJill

Disciplina

808/.042/071

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher)

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

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; I Historical Context-Rhetoric and Composition Studies; 1 The Spaciousness of Rhetoric; II Theory-Building and Critiquing Corderian Rhetoric; 2 Toward a Corderian Theory of Rhetoric; 3 Jim Corder's Radical, Feminist Rhetoric; 4 The Uses of Rhetoric; 5 Preaching What He Practices: Jim Corder's Irascible and Articulate Oeuvre; 6 A Writer's Haunting Presence; 7 Finding Jim's Voice: A Problem in Ethos and Personal Identity; III Parallels, Extensions, and Applications; 8 A Call for Comity

9 Toward an Adequate Pedagogy for Rhetorical Argumentation: A Case Study in Invention10 Rhetoric and Conflict Resolution; 11 Rhetoricians at War and Peace; IV Theoretical, Pedagogical, and Institutional Issues; 12 Bringing Over Yonder Over Here: A Personal Look at Expressivist Rhetoric As Ideological Action; 13 A More Spacious Model of Writing and Literacy; 14 Weaving a Way Home: Composing a Personal Geography; 15 Who Owns Creative Nonfiction?; Author Index; Subject Index; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS



Sommario/riassunto

In this collection of original essays, editors Theresa Enos and Keith D. Miller join their contributors--a veritable ""who's who"" in composition scholarship--in seeking to illuminate and complicate many of the tensions present in the field of rhetoric and composition. The contributions included here emphasize key issues in past and present work, setting the stage for future thought and study. The book also honors the late Jim Corder, a major figure in the development of the rhetoric and composition discipline. In the spirit of Corder's unfinished work, the contributors to this volume absorb,

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971268103321

Titolo

The History of English . Volume 2 Old English / / Laurel Brinton, Alexander Bergs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

9783110523058

3110523051

9783110525304

3110525305

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 272 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Mouton Reader ; ; Volume 2

Disciplina

420

420.9

Soggetti

Early Modern English

English historical linguistics

Middle English

Old English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Pre-Old English -- Chapter 3: Old English: Overview -- Chapter 4: Phonology -- Chapter 5: Morphology -- Chapter 6: Syntax -- Chapter 7: Semantics and Lexicon -- Chapter 8:



Pragmatics and Discourse -- Chapter 9: Dialects -- Chapter 10: Language Contact: Latin -- Chapter 11: English Contact: Norse -- Chapter 12: Standardization -- Chapter 13: Literary Language -- Chapter 14: Early Textual Resources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters investigate the state-of-the art in the linguistics of Old English and explore key areas of debate such as dialectology, language contact, standardization, and literary language. The volume sets the scene with a chapter on pre-Old English and ends with a chapter discussing textual resources available for the study of earlier English.

This volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters, written by recognized experts in the field, review the state of the art in phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic studies of Old English. Key areas of debate, including dialectology, language contact, standardization, and literary language, are also explored. The volume sets the scene with a chapter on pre-Old English and ends with a chapter discussing textual resources available for the study of earlier English.