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.
The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice: Procedural Habits
1st Edition
By Steve Holmes
December 10, 2019
The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice offers a critical reassessment of embodiment and materiality in rhetorical considerations of videogames. Holmes argues that rhetorical and philosophical conceptions of "habit" offer a critical resource for describing the interplay between thinking (...
Rhetorics of Names and Naming
1st Edition
Edited
By Star Medzerian Vanguri
April 27, 2018
This volume takes up rhetorical approaches to our primarily linguistic understanding of how names work, considering how theories of materiality in rhetoric enrich conceptions of the name as word or symbol and help explain the processes of name bestowal, accumulation, loss, and theft. Contributors ...
Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak
1st Edition
Edited
By David Gold, Catherine L. Hobbs
February 06, 2018
Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation ...
Software Evangelism and the Rhetoric of Morality: Coding Justice in a Digital Democracy
1st Edition
By Jennifer Helene Maher
February 05, 2018
Examining the layers of meaning encoded in software and the rhetoric surrounding it, this book offers a much-needed perspective on the intersections between software, morality, and politics. In software development culture, evangelism typically denotes a rhetorical practice that aims to convert ...
Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse: The Religious Creativity of Evangelical Student Writers
1st Edition
By Jeffrey M. Ringer
January 03, 2018
Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse seeks to address the current gap in American public discourse between secular liberals and religiously committed citizens by focusing on the academic and public writing of millennial evangelical Christian students. Analysis of such writing reveals ...
Authorship Contested: Cultural Challenges to the Authentic, Autonomous Author
1st Edition
Edited
By Amy E. Robillard, Ron Fortune
December 08, 2017
This volume explores a dimension of authorship not given its due in the critical discourse to this point—authorship contested. Much of the existing critical literature begins with a text and the proposition that the text has an author. The debates move from here to questions about who the author is...
Rhetorical Delivery and Digital Technologies: Networks, Affect, Electracy
1st Edition
By Sean Morey
December 08, 2017
This book theorizes digital logics and applications for the rhetorical canon of delivery. Digital writing technologies invite a re-evaluation about what delivery can offer to rhetorical studies and writing practices. Sean Morey argues that what delivery provides is access to the unspeakable, ...
Sexual Rhetorics: Methods, Identities, Publics
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Alexander, Jacqueline Rhodes
December 08, 2017
Sexual rhetoric is the self-conscious and critical engagement with discourses of sexuality that exposes both their naturalization and their queering, their torquing to create different or counter-discourses, giving voice and agency to multiple and complex sexual experiences. This volume explores ...
Communication, Public Opinion, and Globalization in Urban China
1st Edition
By Francis L.F. Lee, Chin-Chuan Lee, Mike Z. Yao, Tsan-Kuo Chang, Fen Jennifer Lin, Chris Fei Shen
October 12, 2017
As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic, political, social, and cultural globalization, important questions arise about how Chinese people perceive and evaluate such processes. At the same time, international communication scholars have long been interested in how local, ...
Pedagogies of Public Memory: Teaching Writing and Rhetoric at Museums, Memorials, and Archives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Greer, Laurie Grobman
October 12, 2017
Pedagogies of Public Memory explores opportunities for writing and rhetorical education at museums, archives, and memorials. Readers will follow students working and writing at well-known sites of international interest (e.g., the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the ...
Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement
1st Edition
By Katrina M. Powell
June 16, 2017
In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical strategies employed as barriers and boundaries intersect with individual lives. She ...
Mapping Christian Rhetorics: Connecting Conversations, Charting New Territories
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael-John DePalma, Jeffrey M. Ringer
June 16, 2017
The continued importance of Christian rhetorics in political, social, pedagogical, and civic affairs suggests that such rhetorics not only belong on the map of rhetorical studies, but are indeed essential to the geography of rhetorical studies in the twenty-first century. This collection argues ...