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1. Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments

   Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions

   By Ryan Malphurs

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court’s voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices’ communication within oral arguments. Malphurs...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication

   Internatural Communication

   Edited by Emily Plec

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Despite its inherent interdisciplinarity, the Communication discipline has remained an almost entirely anthropocentric enterprise. This book represents early and prominent forays into the subject of human-animal communication from a Communication Studies perspective, an effort that brings a...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property

   Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture

   By Jessica Reyman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. Communicating Marginalized Masculinities

   Identity Politics in TV, Film, and New Media

   Edited by Ronald L. Jackson II, Jamie E. Moshin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such as men and masculinity are socially...

   Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Rhetoric of Food

   Discourse, Materiality, and Power

   Edited by Joshua Frye, Michael Bruner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy. The essays visit a rich variety of dominant...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11

   By Marita Gronnvoll

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
7. Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media

   Writing Ecology

   Edited by Sidney Dobrin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Moving beyond ecocomposition, this book galvanizes conversations in ecology and writing not with an eye toward homogenization, but with an agenda of firmly establishing the significance of writing research that intersects with ecology. It looks to establish ecological writing studies not just as a...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
8. Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form

   Sighting Memory

   Edited by Anne Demo, Bradford Vivian

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
9. The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire

   Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis

   By Stephen Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato’s Socrates and Paulo Freire that has profound implications for contemporary education. Brown not only sheds new...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
10. Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness

    By Wendy Ryden, Ian Marshall

    Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

    In this volume, Ryden and Marshall bring together the field of composition and rhetoric with critical whiteness studies to show that in our "post race" era whiteness and racism not only survive but actually thrive in higher education. As they examine the effects of racism on contemporary literacy...

    Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge