Hilde van Belle, Paul Gillaerts, Baldwin Van Gorp, Dorien van de Mieroop, Kris Rutten (eds)
Verbal and Visual Rhetoric in a Media World 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. It discusses new theoretical perspectives and it proposes different rhetorical analyses of actual topics. A substantial part of the collection focuses specifically on the issue of (new) media discourse and visual rhetoric as it appears in pictures, graphics, cartoons, documentaries and videos.
rhetoric in society e d i t e d b y h i l d e va n b e l l e , pa u l g i l l a e rt s , b a l d w i n va n g o r p , d o r i e n va n d e m i e r o o p & kris rutten
leiden university press Hilde van Belle is Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Language Studies at Catholic University Leuven (campus Antwerpen) and board member of Rhetoric Society of Europe.
Rhetoric in Society Publishing date April 2013 Language English NUR 610 ISBN 978 90 8728 190 8 e-ISBN 978 94 0060 140 6 Price € 39,50 £ 32.50 $ 49.50 Format 156 x 234 mm Page extent 320 pages Cover design Mulder van Meurs
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