The Lure of Communication : Sociology Through Rhetoric

• Autore: Lombardinilo Andrea
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 pages)
• Disciplina: 302.2
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Editorial Note -- Contents -- 1: Introduction. The Lure of Communication: A Sociological Path -- References -- 2: "Shared Symbols of a Community": Roger Silverstone and Media Commonplaces -- Rhetoric as a Critique. An Introduction -- Rhetoric and the Refeudalization of the Public Sphere -- The Orator and the Audience: From Aristotle to Cicero -- The Industrialization of Rhetoric: Advertising and Communication -- Conclusion. The Media Campaign -- References -- 3: "Metaphor Work": Richard Sennett and the Urban Rhetoric of Public Speaking -- The Heat of Words: Speech-Making in Ancient Athens -- Rituals and Warm Bodies in the Adonia Festival -- The "Milling Crowd": Visual Order in the Romanum Comitium -- From Rome to Paris: The University Rhetoric Machine -- Conclusion. Public Life and Authority -- References -- 4: Mainstream Soliloquies: Erving Goffman and the Sociology of Self-Talk -- Self-Talk as a Form of Social Internalization -- The Rhetoric of Mainstream Soliloquies and Inner Narrations -- Public Soliloquies: Communicative Pathways -- Conclusion. The Soliloquizing Skills -- References -- 5: Mythic Operators: Jean Baudrillard and the Rhetoric of Designation -- Simulation and Dematerialization: Immaterial Myths -- Mythic Operators: Metalepsis and Tautology -- The Conspiracy of Myth: Art and Communication -- Conclusion. Myth as a Repeatable Process -- References -- 6: Imaginary Myths: Roland Barthes and the Rhetorical Induction -- Communication as Induction. An Introduction -- Communication Through Exempla: The Rhetorical Induction -- From the Exemplum to the Imago: Exemplary Figures -- Imagoes and Myths: A Contemporary Perspective -- Conclusion. Communication and Rhetorical Evolution -- References -- 7: Faded Metaphors: Walter Lippmann and the Rhetoric of News -- "Signs Stand for Ideas": Stereotypes and Public Opinion. ; "Stereotypes as Defence": Myth and Symbolic Generalization -- Conclusion: The Hierarchy of Symbols -- References -- 8: The Values of the Gutenberg Era: Myth and Media Rhetoric -- The Essayist and the Treatise Writer: The Gutenberg Constellation -- The Rise of Encyclopaedic Knowledge: Print as a Commodity -- Conclusion: The Upside-Down Imagery -- References -- 9: Digital Cosmopolitism: Ulrich Beck and Communication as "Public Bad" -- Complexity and Society: The Unexpected Communicative Landscapes -- The World of Mass Media as "A World of Nations" -- Habermas and the "Diseases of Political Communication" -- Risk Publicness: A "Globalized and Figurative Communication" -- Conclusion: Public Sphere and Social Privatization -- References -- 10: The Lure of Rhetoric: Jürgen Habermas and the Faltering European Project -- Introduction: The European Crisis as a Communicative Topic -- Considered Public Opinions: Deliberation and Mass Consideration -- The European Crisis as a Metaphor: Communication and Identity -- The Lure of Technocracy and European Rhetoric -- Conclusion: For a Mediatized Public Rhetoric -- References -- 11: Richard Sennett and "The New Rhetoric of the People": A Manzonian Path -- The Historical Road to Exile: A Sociological Pathway -- "The People Are Silent": Notes on the Sociology of Identity -- Manzoni and the "Revenge of the People": Sociological Notes -- Conclusion: Place and Displace in Modern Times -- Appendix -- References -- 12: "Presence Is Absence": Communication and Rhetoric in Paolo Sorrentino's The Young Pope -- God's Infinite Silence: Lenny Belardo's Antiphrastic Communication -- Hyperboles in Reverse: The Anti-mediality of Lenny Belardo -- Old-Fashioned Scandals: Crime and Abuse in the Holy Environment -- Conclusion: Incommunicability of Death -- References. ; 13: "Society Is Predictable": Risk and Persuasion in Paolo Sorrentino's The New Pope -- Introduction: Predictability of Faith -- "Leak to the Media": God Between Epiphany and Absence -- "The World That Suffers": Stigma and Social Confinement -- Conclusion: Media Dogmas and Sacred Environment -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Lure of Communication
• ISBN: 9781349960842
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910842283303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II