When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated “Motivorum” project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents. A Rhetoric of Motives was originally intended to be a two-part book. Here, at last, is the second volume, the until-now unpublished War of Words, where Burke brilliantly exposes the rhetorical devices that sponsor war in the name of peace. Discouraging militarism during the Cold War even as it catalogues belligerent persuasive strategies and tactics that remain in use today, The War of Words reveals how popular news media outlets can, wittingly or not, foment international tensions and armaments during tumultuous political periods. This authoritative edition includes an introduction from the editors explaining the compositional history and cultural contexts of both The War of Words and A Rhetoric of Motives. The War of Words illuminates the study of modern rhetoric even as it deepens our understanding of post–World War II politics.
Paul Tripp identifies the attitudes and assumptions behind our words and shows how to develop God-honoring communication.
War of Words is an incisive report from the linguistic battlefields, probing the tales told about September 11th to show how Americans created consensus in the face of terror.
Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of ...
War of Words, War of Stones explores how violently enforced racial boundaries arose from Zanzibar's entangled history. Jonathon Glassman challenges explanations that assume racial thinking in the colonial world reflected only Western ideas.
A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln recognized the power of the press.
Incorporating contexts from around the world, this collection's topics range from a radio talk show hosts' inflammatory rhetoric to the semantic poverty of the lexicon of mass destruction. The first eight chapters discuss war texts.
Selling the War on Terror from Afghanistan to Iraq Wojtek Mackiewicz Wolfe. build new partnerships to better preserve the peace. It will reduce the stress on our troops and on our military families. It was save the taxpayers money, ...
A War of Words Language and Conflict in the Middle East Yasir Suleiman's book considers national identity in relation to language , the way in which language can be manipulated to signal political , cultural or even historical ...
Quoted in Michael Anesko, “Friction with the Market”: Henry James and the Profession of Authorship (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 87. 5. The Bostonians: A Novel (New York: Modern Library, 1965); page numbers given in the ...
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