Members' Announcements

04-08-2014: Rhetorical Pedagogy (Burke 2013)

Michael Burke’s recent inaugural professorial address - as Professor of Rhetoric - entitled “Rhetorical Pedagogy:  Shaping an Intellectually Critical Citizenry” can now down be downloaded from the University of Utrecht Library website (Igitur) or read online free of charge for those interested in the area of rhetoric and education.

For more see here.


Article Announcement: Isager

(20-11-2013)

Christine Isager from the University of Copenhagen has had the review essay "Rhetoric in Scandinavia" published in Quarterly Journal of Speech.

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For more see here.


Rutten - Special Issue: Revisiting the Rhetorical Curriculum

Kris Rutten and Ronald Soetaert (Ghent University, Belgium) guest edited a special issue for the Journal of Curriculum studies entitled "Revisiting the Rhetorical Curriculum". The issue aims to explore (new) rhetoric as a theoretical and methodological framework for curriculum studies. The issue has been published (Volume 44, issue 6) and is now available online.


 

Article Announcement: Klujeff

(18-09-2012)

Marie Lund Klujeff from Aarhus University, Denmark, has recently published an article in the book Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation, edited by Christian Kock and Lisa Villadsen. The title of the article is "Provocative Style: The Gaarder Debate Example".

For more see here


Article Announcement: Villadsen

(10-05-2012)

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Lisa Storm Villadsen has just had a review essay published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. The title is "Beyond the Spectacle of Apologia: Reading Official Apologies as Proto-Deliberative Rhetoric and Instantiations of Rhetorical Citizenship".

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Read the review essay here


Article Announcement: Grue

(02-05-2012)

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Jan Grue from Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway, has recently published an article in the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. The title of the article is "Rhetorics of difference: Julia Kristeva and disability".

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Read the article here.


Article Announcement: Meyer

(03-05-2012)

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Michel Meyer has an article in Philosophy and Rhetoric, summmarizing the new theory professor Meyer has developed  under the name of problematology (or theory of questioning). It goes beyond the traditional views of rhetoric, among which that of Perelman, who he succeeded in 1982.

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Read the article here and a supplement here (in French)


Book Announcement: Grue - Disability and Discourse Analysis

(03-03-2015)

Ashgate are pleased to announce the release of Jan Grue’s new book, Disability and Discourse Analysis (Pub date 08 January 2015).
 
Although efforts have been made to integrate disability into the discourse analysis and conversation analysis canon, the link between the two fields needs to be strengthened. This ground-breaking volume contributes to this link by thoroughly applying the analytical vocabulary of discourse analysis to issues that are central to the field of disability studies. It strengthens disability studies by supplying case studies of representations and constructions of disability and disabled people in discourse, theorizes the role played by language in the social construction of disability, and makes disability a more salient topic for discourse analysts.
 
To read more about this new book, including reviews and excerpts, click here. To discover more titles in Ashgate’s new Interdisciplinary Disability Studies series please see here.


Book Announcement: Elsner & Meyer

(07-10-2014)

Jas Elsner and Michel Meyer has recently pulblished the book Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture on Cambridge University Press.

For more see here.


Book Announcement: Van Belle et al

(28-08-2014)

Verbal and Visual Rhetoric in a Media World

Edited by Hilde van Belle, Paul Gillaerts, Baldwin van Gorp, Dorien van de Mieroop, Kris Rutten
Leiden University Press [Rhetoric in Society Series]


Since Aristotle, the study of rhetoric has focused on the persuasive aspect of verbal discourse in the political, forensic and ceremonial domains. Rhetoric deals with doxa, with public discourse and persuasion as they develop in a world with no absolute knowledge, certainty or fixity. Changing cultural and political conditions urge us to discuss the status, scope and value of rhetorical studies as a discipline. One of these conditions is the increasing influence of visual communication. This collection brings together work that examines how rhetoric functions at this moment and how it balances tradition and renewal.

For more see here.

Book Announcement: Van Belle et al - Let's Talk Politics

(28-08-2014)

Let's talk politics. New essays on deliberative rhetoric 

Edited by Hilde Van Belle, Kris Rutten, Paul Gillaerts, Dorien Van De Mieroop and Baldwin Van Gorp
John Benjamins Publishing Company [Argumentation-in-Context Series]


In this volume on political argumentation, the study of argument takes place within a rhetorical framework. As such, it is a contribution to the study of argumentation-in-context with an explicit rhetorical approach. Rather than focusing on the poor quality of political participation and political understanding by citizens, this volume explores how the study of rhetoric, both as an academic discipline and as a political practice, stands in a unique position to critically engage with a ‘contextualized’ understanding of politics and civic engagement.

For more see here.


Book Announcement: Kuypers

(03-06-2014)

Jim Kuypers have recently published the book Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in Rhetorical Criticism (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2014).

For more see here, here and here.


 

Book Announcement: Blank

(03-06-2014)

Thomas Blankhas recently published the book Logos und Praxis: Sparta als politisches Exemplum in den Schriften des Isokrates (Berlin: De Gruyter 2014).

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For more see here.


Book Announcement: Amossy

(10-03-2014)

Ruth Amossy has just published a new book on polemics.

For more see here (in French)


Book Announcement: Van Belle et al

(06-11-2013)

Hilde Van Belle, Paul Gillaerts, Baldwin Van Gorp, Dorien Van De Mieroop, Kris Rutten (Eds.) (2013) Verbal and Visual Rhetoric in a Media World. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press.

This collection brings together articles that examine how rhetoric functions in society and how the discipline can reconcile tradition with renewal. Many of them explore the most important topics of new media and visual rhetoric

Hilde Van Belle and Paul Gillaerts teach rhetoric at KU Leuven Campus Antwerpen, Dorien Van De Mieroop teaches linguistics at KU Leuven, Baldwin Van Gorp teaches journalism at KU Leuven, and Kris Rutten teaches rhetoric at the Department of Educational Studies of Ghent University.  

For more see here.


Book Announcement: Arthos

(22-11-2012)

John Arthos has published a book about rhetoric and hermeneutics, entitled Speaking Hermeneutically: Understanding in the Conduct of a Life.

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For more see here


Book Announcement: Feeser, Goggin & Tobin

(22-11-2012)

Andrea Feeser, Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin have just published a new book this month on color that takes a rhetorical and cultural approach to color.

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Feeser, Andrea, Maureen Daly Goggin, and Beth Fowkes Tobin, eds. The Materiality of Color: The Production, Circulation, and Application of Dyes and Pigments 1400-1800. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2012.

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See more here


Book Announcement: Michael Burke

(04-09-2012)

Michael Burke has recently published a research monograph on the rhetoric of literary reading entitled Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion (Routledge), which is also available in paperback.

For more see the publisher's website here and the amazon listing here


 

Call for Submissions to Edited Volume on Rhetorics of Immigration

 (19-06-2012)

The objective of this edited volume is to expand the discipline’s understanding of immigration as a policy debate, a cultural phenomenon, a historical circumstance and myth of origin, a sociological reality, and a theme of ethnic identification and tension.

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To see the full call for submissions, see here


Book Announcement: Kock and Villadsen

(02-05-2012)

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The book Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation has just been published by Penn State University Press. It is edited by Christian Kock and Lisa Villadsen (both from Copenhagen University, Denmark).

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The book is part of a larger series titled Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation, which is edited by Cheryl Glenn and Mike Hogan.

Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation is a series of groundbreaking monographs and edited volumes focusing on the character and quality of public discourse in American politics and culture. It is sponsored by the Center for Democratic Deliberation, an interdisciplinary center for research, teaching, and outreach on issues of rhetoric, civic engagement, and public deliberation.

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For more see here