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Eighteenth-century rhetorical theory and rhetoricians figured prominently in the development of contemporary composition and rhetoric. The volume begins with an introduction that discusses the various rhetorical movements of the time, including the importance of women to rhetorical theory.

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Fay examines the unacknowledged political uses of language in modern culture that engender and effectuate power imbalances among speakers and listeners. Women must be shown how the everyday language of politicians, educators, and newscasters is not natural but is marked--designed for manipulative purposes that put women at risk.

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Examining spaces where leisure activities are offered on sites of industrial waste, this book argues that such heterotopic spaces may foster a remaking of public environmental responsibility and ecological care that is not based on a utopian vision of environmental purity but an attempt to exist responsibly in the continued presence of waste.

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Scholarly considerations of the relationship between the United States government and Native Americans have largely ignored the rhetoric utilized by both in the course of their ongoing conflicts.

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Using the 2003 war in Iraq as an illustrative tool for highlighting the impact which advances in communication systems have had on message relays, this book enables a critical evaluation of the way language is used in the news.

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Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has become the focus of linguistic analysis. This book presents a corpus-based account of evaluation: one hundred newspaper articles collated to form a 70,000 word comparable corpus, drawn from both tabloid and broadsheet media.

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Presents a corpus-based account of evaluation, using a corpus of one hundred newspaper articles comprising a 70,000 word comparable corpus, drawn from both tabloid and broadsheet media. This book offers a way forward for analysing the expression of opinion, by proposing a framework of evaluation that can be applied to different types of discourse.

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Drawing on socially-oriented functional linguistics, this book provides a fresh and well-documented look at language use in clinical communication in the Asian context.

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Includes chapters on language in justice system, forensic transcription, and expanded information on forensic phonetics. This book includes an appendix of forensic texts for student study, exercises and suggestions for further reading. It is intended for students, and researchers encountering this branch of applied linguistics for the first time.

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Includes chapters on language in justice system, forensic transcription, and expanded information on forensic phonetics. This book includes an appendix of forensic texts for student study, exercises and suggestions for further reading. It is intended for students, and researchers encountering this branch of applied linguistics for the first time.

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Pullum examines the rhetorical genre of 20th-century American faith healing.

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Geared toward English and social studies teachers as well as school librarians, this book provides a clear and concise way to approach the teaching of persuasive writing-and to develop the skills students need to excel on high stakes tests as well.

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Frederick Douglass, once a slave, was one of the great 19th century American orators and the most important African American voice of his era. This book traces the development of his rhetorical skills, discusses the effect of his oratory on his contemporaries, and analyzes the specific oratorical techniques he employed.

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Fringe Rhetorics explores the rhetorical construction of conspiracy theories and paranormal accounts. This book describes a method of analysis for fringe rhetorics and provides examples for applying this method to investigate these arguments persuasive power.

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As metastatic breast cancer has become a chronic disease for some women, how women discuss living with this disease has also evolved. The author examines and analyzes these changes and the rhetorical impacts of this evolution in overall breast cancer discourse.