Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion

Author:   Jeanne Fahnestock (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Maryland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780199764112


Pages:   464
Publication Date:   12 January 2012
Format:   Paperback
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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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Author:   Jeanne Fahnestock (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Maryland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780199764112


ISBN 10:   0199764115
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   12 January 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I. Word Choice 1: Language or Origin 2: New Words and Changing Uses 3: Categories of Word Choice 4: Language Varieties 5: Tropes 6: Schemes and Figures of Word Choice Part II. Sentences 7: Sentence Basics: Predication 8: Sentence Construction: Modification 9: Sentence Architecture 10: Figures of Argument 11: Series 12: Prosody and Punctuation Part III. Interactive Dimension 13: Speaker and Audience Construction 14: Incorporating Other Voices 15: Situation and Occasion Part IV. Passage Construction 16: Coherence 17: Passage Patterns 18: Amplification References

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A rich and rewarding textbook that shows how stylistic features make for persuasion. It provides readers with a good introduction to the study of figures in the sense of classical rhetoric. Linguist List


<br> A rich and rewarding textbook that shows how stylistic features make for persuasion. It provides readers with a good introduction to the study of figures in the sense of classical rhetoric. --Linguist List<p><br>


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Jeanne Fahnestock is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Rhetorical Figures in Science, and co-author of A Rhetoric of Argument.

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