Forthcoming Rhetoric Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education

   American Women Learn to Speak

   Edited by David Gold, Catherine L. Hobbs

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation...

   To Be Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
2. Multimodality and Social Semiosis

   Communication, Meaning-Making, and Learning in the Work of Gunther Kress

   Edited by Margit Böck, Norbert Pachler

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   Gunther Kress, one of the founders of social semiotics and multimodality, has made lasting contributions to these fields through his work in semiotics and meaning-making; power and identity; agency, design, production; and pedagogy and learning; in varied sites of transformation. This book brings...

   To Be Published April 25th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Relationship between Rhetoric and Terrorist Violence

   Edited by Allison Smith

   Studies have demonstrated that choices in the use of language convey information that goes beyond the content of the words themselves. In many cases, how something is said matters as much as what is said. Using techniques collectively referred to as linguistic content analysis, researchers have...

   To Be Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge
4. Writing for the Web

   Composing, Coding, and Constructing Web Sites

   By J.D. Applen

   Writing for the Web unites theory, technology, and practice to explore writing and hypertext for website creation. It integrates such key topics as XHTML/CSS coding, writing (prose) for the Web, the rhetorical needs of the audience, theories of hypertext, usability and architecture, and the basics...

   To Be Published May 27th 2013 by Routledge
5. Communicating Environmental Patriotism

   A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement

   By Anne Marie Todd

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country’s greatness, is a significant strand in twentieth century American environmentalism. This book is the first to explore the history of environmental patriotism in America through the intriguing stories of...

   To Be Published July 3rd 2013 by Routledge
6. A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric

   4th Edition

   By James J. Murphy, Richard A. Katula, Michael Hoppmann

   Continuing its tradition of providing students with a thorough review of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and practices, A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric is the premier text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the history of rhetoric. Offering vivid examples of each...

   To Be Published July 8th 2013 by Routledge
7. Environmental Rhetoric and Ecologies of Place

   Edited by Peter Goggin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience — the preservation and conservation of the earth and the future of human society. This book explores some...

   To Be Published July 18th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Mobile Story

   Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies

   Edited by Jason Farman

   What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to consider how stories can be told through mobile, locative, and pervasive technologies. This book offers dynamic insights about the new...

   To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge
9. Analyzing Digital Fiction

   Edited by Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin, Hans Rustad

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

   Written for and read on a computer screen, digital fiction pursues its verbal, discursive and conceptual complexity through the digital medium. It is fiction whose structure, form and meaning are dictated by the digital context in which it is produced and requires analytical approaches that are...

   To Be Published August 13th 2013 by Routledge
10. Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age

    The Transhuman Condition

    By Jeff Pruchnic

    Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

    It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies — from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics — seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and...

    To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge