Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion

A comprehensive guide to the language of argument, Rhetorical Style offers a renewed appreciation of the persuasive power of the English language. Drawing on key texts from the rhetorical tradition, as well as on newer approaches from linguistics and literary stylistics, Fahnestock
demonstrates how word choice, sentence form, and passage construction can combine to create effective spoken and written arguments. With examples from political speeches, non-fiction works, and newspaper reports, Rhetorical Style surveys the arguer's options at the word, sentence, interactive, and
passage levels, and illustrates the enduring usefulness of rhetorical stylistics in analyzing and constructing arguments.


Author: Jeanne Fahnestock
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/12/2011
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780199764112

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2012

About the Author

Jeanne Fahnestock is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Rhetorical Figures in Science, and co-author of A Rhetoric of Argument.

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