Rhetorical style : the uses of language in persuasion /
A comprehensive guide to the language of argument, Rhetorical Style offers a renewed appreciation of the persuasive power of the English language. Drawing on key texts from the rhetorical tradition, as well as on newer approaches from linguistics and literary stylistics, Fahnestock demonstrates how...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | A comprehensive guide to the language of argument, Rhetorical Style offers a renewed appreciation of the persuasive power of the English language. Drawing on key texts from the rhetorical tradition, as well as on newer approaches from linguistics and literary stylistics, Fahnestock demonstrates how word choice, sentence form, and passage construction can combine to create effective spoken and written arguments. With examples from political speeches, non-fiction works, and newspaper reports, Rhetorical Style surveys the arguer's options at the word, sentence, interactive, and passage levels, and illustrates the enduring usefulness of rhetorical stylistics in analyzing and constructing arguments. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 449 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-434) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199877331 0199877335 1283423545 9781283423540 9780199918928 0199918929 |