Communication criticism : developing your critical powers /
Communication Criticism is an informally written, practical guide about how to think, how to communicate, and how to filter meaning out of the swarm of communication that seeks our attention daily. Undergraduates will learn how understanding the fundamental principles of communication helps them to...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
c1998.
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| Series: | Rhetoric & society (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ;
v. 2. |
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| Online Access: | Publisher description Table of contents only Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Need to Think Critically About Communication
- 2. How to Think Critically about Communication
- 3. Language as Style
- 4. Language as Sign Systems
- 5. Language as Metaphor
- 6. Structure as Organization
- 7. Structure as Editing Images
- 8. Structure as Narrative
- 9. Structure as Drama
- 10. Reasoning as Rhetorical Argument
- 11. Reasoning as Field-Dependent Argument
- 12. Reasoning as Narrative
- 13. Character as Ethos
- 14. Character as the Second Persona
- 15. Character as Identification
- 16. Emotion as Pathos
- 17. Emotion as Desire
- 18. Critical Powers Over Who We Are, What We Know, and What We Do.