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OverviewOver the past several years, David Kaufer and his colleagues have developed a software program for analyzing writing (DocuScope). This book illustrates the concepts and rhetorical theory behind the software analysis, examining patterns in writing and showing writers how their writing works in different categories to accomplish varying objectives. Reflecting the range and variety of audience experience that contiguous words of surface English can prime, the authors present a theory of language as an instrument of rhetorically priming audiences and a catalog of English strings to implement the theory. The project creates a comprehensive map of the speaker and writer's implicit knowledge about predisposing audience experience at the point of utterance. The book begins with an explanation of why studying language from the standpoint of priming--not just meaning--is vital to non-question begging theories of close reading and to language education in general. The remaining chapters in Part I detail the steps taken to prepare a catalog study of English strings for their properties as priming instruments. Part II describes in detail the catalog of priming categories, including enough examples to help readers see how individual words and strings of English fit into the catalog. The final part describes how the authors have applied the catalog of English strings as priming tools to conduct textual research. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David S. Kaufer , Suguru Ishizaki , Brian S. Butler , Jeff CollinsPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.660kg ISBN: 9780805847833ISBN 10: 0805847839 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 01 December 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe Power of Words is a profoundly original masterpiece that completely changes our understanding of language from its very foundations. There are perhaps only a handful of books that have altered our entire formulation of language itself, and this book is one of them. In a very clear sense, it opens up a new science of language. From the first page, one enters an extraordinarily original world of concepts and analytic tools, that are used to reveal language as a more powerful means of action than has been previously grasped. One can literally say that, in the hands of David Kaufer and his colleagues, language becomes a new phenomenon. In summary: This is a monumental contribution-one of the few revolutions in our understanding of language-and will become not only a classic masterpiece in the humanities, but a major source for the expansion of scientific research into language, leading to substantial improvement in the linguistic capacities of computers. --Professor Michael Leyton Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Author InformationDavid S. Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki, Brian S. Butler, Jeff Collins, Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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