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 Multimediated Rhetoric of the Internet: Digital Fusion
1st Edition
By Carolyn Handa
June 16, 2017
This project is a critical, rhetorical study of the digital text we call the Internet, in particular the style and figurative surface of its many pages as well as the conceptual, design patterns structuring the content of those same pages. Handa argues that as our lives become increasingly digital,...
The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire: Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis
1st Edition
By Stephen Brown
June 16, 2017
Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato’s Socrates and Paulo Freire that has profound implications for contemporary education. Brown not only sheds new ...
Communication, Public Discourse, and Road Safety Campaigns: Persuading People to Be Safer
1st Edition
By Nurit Guttman
February 07, 2017
This book discusses the use of communication campaigns to promote road safety, arguing that they need to elicit public discourse on issues pertaining to culture, equity, gender, workplace norms, environmental issues, and social solidarity. Increasingly, new media channels and formats are employed ...
Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age: The Transhuman Condition
1st Edition
By Jeff Pruchnic
August 03, 2016
It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies — from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics — seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and ...
Environmental Rhetoric and Ecologies of Place
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Goggin
May 31, 2016
Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience — the preservation and conservation of the earth and the future of human society. This book explores some ...
Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media: Writing Ecology
1st Edition
Edited
By Sidney Dobrin
December 07, 2015
Moving beyond ecocomposition, this book galvanizes conversations in ecology and writing not with an eye toward homogenization, but with an agenda of firmly establishing the significance of writing research that intersects with ecology. It looks to establish ecological writing studies not just as a ...
Adaptive Rhetoric: Evolution, Culture, and the Art of Persuasion
1st Edition
By Alex C. Parrish
September 03, 2015
Rhetorical scholarship has for decades relied solely on culture to explain persuasive behavior. While this focus allows for deep explorations of historical circumstance, it neglects the powerful effects of biology on rhetorical behavior – how our bodies and brains help shape and constrain ...
Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication: Communicating as a Global Citizen
1st Edition
By Miriam Sobre-Denton, Nilanjana Bardhan
May 21, 2015
This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and ...
Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: Internatural Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Emily Plec
May 21, 2015
Despite its inherent interdisciplinarity, the Communication discipline has remained an almost entirely anthropocentric enterprise. This book represents early and prominent forays into the subject of human-animal communication from a Communication Studies perspective, an effort that brings a ...
Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments: Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions
1st Edition
By Ryan Malphurs
September 11, 2014
While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court’s voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices’ communication within oral arguments. Malphurs ...
Communicating Marginalized Masculinities: Identity Politics in TV, Film, and New Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronald L. Jackson II, Jamie E. Moshin
July 03, 2014
For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such as men and masculinity are socially...
Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness
1st Edition
By Wendy Ryden, Ian Marshall
July 03, 2014
In this volume, Ryden and Marshall bring together the field of composition and rhetoric with critical whiteness studies to show that in our "post race" era whiteness and racism not only survive but actually thrive in higher education. As they examine the effects of racism on contemporary literacy ...