Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge scholarly studies and edited collections in the fields of rhetoric and writing studies. Interdisciplinary in approaches, these titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
American Women Activists and Autobiography: Rhetorical Lives
1st Edition
By Heather Ostman
May 31, 2023
American Women Activists and Autobiography examines the feminist rhetorics that emerge in six very different activists’ autobiographies, as they simultaneously tell the stories of unconventional women’s lives and manifest the authors’ arguments for social and political change, as well as provide ...
Sacred Rhetorical Education in 19th Century America: Austin Phelps at Andover Theological Seminary
1st Edition
By Michael-John DePalma
August 29, 2022
This book offers new insight into the ways rhetorical educators’ religious motives influenced the shape of nineteenth-century rhetorical education and invites scholars of writing and rhetoric to consider what the study of religiously-animated pedagogies might reveal about rhetorical education ...
The Effects of Intellectual Property Law in Writing Studies: Ethics, Sponsors, and Academic Knowledge-Making
1st Edition
By Karen J. Lunsford, James P. Purdy
August 29, 2022
This book documents the intellectual property experiences of writing studies scholars and challenges naturalized ways of responding to intellectual property concerns. Analyzing results of a nationwide survey and semi-structured interviews to examine ways decisions about intellectual property (IP) ...
Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage: Theory in the Body
1st Edition
By Fiona Harris Ramsby
August 01, 2022
Through a fusion of narrative and analysis, Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage examines how theater can enact critical discourse analysis and how micro-instances of iniquitous language use have been politically and historically reiterated to oppress and deny equal rights to marginalized ...
Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression
1st Edition
Edited
By Jessica Reyman, Erika Sparby
September 30, 2021
Digital Ethics delves into the shifting legal and ethical landscape in digital spaces and explores productive approaches for theorizing, understanding, and navigating through difficult ethical issues online. Contributions from leading scholars address how changing technologies and media over the ...
Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine: Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis
1st Edition
By Cathryn Molloy
September 30, 2021
This book explores rhetorical ethos and its ongoing role in patients’ credibility and in misdiagnoses stemming from gender, race and class-based biases. Drawing on the concept of ethos as a theoretical framework, it explores health and mental illness across different conditions and across different...
The Rhetoric of Oil in the Twenty-First Century: Government, Corporate, and Activist Discourses
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather Graves, David Edward Beard
September 30, 2021
This book examines mass communication and civic participation in the age of oil, analyzing the rhetorical and discursive ways that governments and corporations shape public opinion and public policy and activists attempt to reframe public debates to resist corporate framing.In the twenty-first ...
Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” in the Age of Pseudocracy
1st Edition
By Hans Ostrom, William Haltom
June 30, 2020
Orwell’s "Politics and the English Language" in the Age of Pseudocracy visits the essay as if for the first time, clearing away lore about the essay and responding to the prose itself. It shows how many of Orwell’s rules and admonitions are far less useful than they are famed to be, but it also ...
American Political Discourse on China
1st Edition
By Michelle Murray Yang
December 10, 2019
Despite the U.S. and China’s shared economic and political interests, distrust between the nations persists. How does the United States rhetorically navigate its relationship with China in the midst of continued distrust? This book pursues this question by rhetorically analyzing U.S. news and ...
Professional Communication and Network Interaction: A Rhetorical and Ethical Approach
1st Edition
By Heidi A. McKee, James E. Porter
December 10, 2019
Digital technologies and social media have changed the processes, products, and interactions of professional communication, reshaping how, when, with whom, and where business professionals communicate. This book examines these changes by asking: How does rhetorical theory need to adapt and develop ...
Rhetorical Realism: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Ontology of Things
1st Edition
By Scot Barnett
December 10, 2019
Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans across the humanities by exploring how realist commitments have historically accompanied understandings of rhetoric from antiquity to the present. For a discipline that often defines itself according to human speech and writing, the ...
The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk: A Corpus-Driven and Discourse Analysis
1st Edition
By Jo Mackiewicz
December 10, 2019
Writing centers in universities and colleges aim to help student writers develop practices that will make them better writers in the long term and that will improve their draft papers in the short term. The tutors who work in writing centers accomplish such goals through one-to-one talk about ...