Communication criticism: developing your critical powers/

Main Author: Cohen, Jodi R
Corporate Author: Sage
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c1998
Series:Rhetoric & society vol. 2
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The need to think critically about communication
  • How to think critically about communication
  • Language as style
  • Language as sign systems
  • Language as metaphor
  • Structure as organization
  • Structure as editing images
  • Structure as narrative
  • Structure as drama
  • Reasoning as rhetorical argument
  • Reasoning as field dependent-argument
  • Reasoning as narrative
  • Character as ethos
  • Character as the second persona
  • Character as identification
  • Emotion as pathos
  • Emotion as desire
  • Critical powers over who we are, what we know, and what we do