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This book analyzes the rhetoric of Donald Trump to argue that Trump embraces conflicting populist and Republican values, and as a result has relied on populist and polarizing rhetoric, along with fabricated crises, to reconcile these combating ideals and uphold his image of an anti-status quo politician.

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This book analyzes the rhetoric of Donald Trump to argue that Trump embraces conflicting populist and Republican values, and as a result has relied on populist and polarizing rhetoric, along with fabricated crises, to reconcile these combating ideals and uphold his image of an anti-status quo politician.

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This book offers a rhetorical examination of how femininity is defined and portrayed across media and popular culture. To do so, Pompper analyzes interviews with women representing multiple age, ethnic, and sexual orientation groups.

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This book offers a rhetorical examination of how femininity is defined and portrayed across media and popular culture. To do so, Pompper analyzes interviews with women representing multiple age, ethnic, and sexual orientation groups.

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Introduces a scheme of machine aesthetics, including classical industrial machines, high technology, and decaying machines, and then explores the rhetorical uses of these aesthetics.

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Rhetoric of Masculinity lends depth and global nuance to discourse associated with the masculinity concept as it bears on males' self-image, role in society, media representations of them, and the gender role stress/conflict they experience when they fail to measure up to social standards associated with what it means to be manly.

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Rhetoric of the Opioid Epidemic argues that the opioid epidemic is a public health issue. By analyzing case studies from popular culture and governmental responses, Tiara Good demonstrates that the power of naming it an epidemic, rather than a drug or crime issue, reduces counterproductive stigma and assists in reshaping public perspectives.

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In this book, ten scholars examine notable sermons from the fifty-year span between 1965 and 2015. Contributors demonstrate how this turbulent time period witnessed a variety of important shifts in the arguments, evidences, and rhetorical strategies employed by contemporary preachers.

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This book considers the 2015 Charleston mass shooting from a rhetorical perspective and offers an appraisal of the discourses that cradled and emerged from it. It argues that Charleston was different from other mass shootings in America and that the differences can be heard and seen in that rhetoric.

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It courts ambiguity and complexity and revels in difficulty in its examination of ethical issues in the realm of the Internet, the World Wide Web, electronic mail, and the networked classroom, in the rapidly expanding writing space of internetworked writing.

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An examination of the history of the narrowness of goals, social structures, and methodologies associated with the field of technical communication in the second half of the 20th century. It shows how an Isocratean rhetoric can broaden and therefore improve our approaches to decision-making.

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An examination of the history of the narrowness of goals, social structures, and methodologies associated with the field of technical communication in the second half of the 20th century. It shows how an Isocratean rhetoric can broaden and therefore improve our approaches to decision-making.

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Providing an account of how to discuss interactions between objects found within and across archives work in theoretically and experientially meaningful ways, this book illustrates how Gloria Anzalda's archives contain objects that, when placed together by the rhetor, perform the embodied ways of knowing of which she writes.

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Examines scientific discourse using a textographic framework, highlighting tensions between global and local trends in academic writing.

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Examines scientific discourse using a textographic framework, highlighting tensions between global and local trends in academic writing. This book contests monolingual assumptions informing scientific discourse, calling attention to emerging glocal discourses that make hybrids of the standard globalized and local academic English norms.

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Semantic Structures is a large-scale study of conceptual structure and its lexical and syntactic expression in English that builds on the theory of Conceptual Semantics...

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This book emphasizes the role of semantics as a bridge between the theory of language and the theories of other cognitive capacities such as visual perception and motor control.

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