The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address

Ed. by Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. M. Hogan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address is a state-of-the-art companion to the field that showcases both the historical traditions and the future possibilities for public address scholarship in the twenty-first century.

Focuses on public address as both a subject matter and a critical perspective
Mindful of the connections between the study of public address and the history of ideas
Provides an historical overview of public address research and pedagogy, as well as a reassessment of contemporary public address scholarship by those most engaged in its practice
Includes in-depth discussions of basic issues and controversies public address scholarship
Explores the relationship between the study of public address and contemporary issues of civic engagement and democratic citizenship
Reflects the diversity of views among public address scholars, advancing on-going discussions and debates over the goals and character of rhetorical scholarship

Produktdetails

• Handbooks in Communication and Media
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1025g
• ISBN-13: 9781405178136
• ISBN-10: 1405178132
• Artikelnr.: 28776978

Autorenporträt

About the Editors Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Political communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 (2001) and co-author of Constructing Clinton: Hyper-Reality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics (2002) and The Prime-Time Presidency The West Wing and US Nationalism (2006). She is the co-editor of Public Address and Moral Judgment: Critical Studies in Ethical Tensions (2009). J. Michael Hogan is Professor of Rhetoric and Co-director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of the Panama Canal In American Politics (1986), The Nuclear Freeze Campaign (1994), and Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour (2006). He also edited two other volumes, Rhetoric and Community (1998) and Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era (2003). In 2008, Hogan was elected a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Study of Rhetoric
and Public Address. Part I: The History and Prospects of Rhetoric and
Public Address. Part II: Basic Research in Rhetoric and Public Address.
Part III: Text and Context in Rhetoric and Public Address. Part IV:
Questions of Effect in Rhetoric and Public Address. Part V: The Politics of
Rhetoric and Public Address. Select Bibliography. Index.