Persuading People: An Introduction to Rhetoric - Softcover

Cockcroft, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333471636 ISBN 13: 9780333471630

Publisher: Palgrave, 1992

Synopsis

This study of persuasive techniques in English is designed as an introduction for students. The volume aims to clarify the complexities of persuasive language - both written and spoken - and enables students to develop their own rhetorical skills. Part one considers the sources of persuasion, part two analyzes rhetoric in action, using a variety of extracts and examples and part three demonstrates the interaction between rhetoric and current critical and linguisitic theories.

About this title

Review

'...a highly valuable tool for linguists and literary critics, offering an updated presentation of ancient rhetoric, as reinterpreted for the present day. It is an attractive, friendly book, which reads very well...' - Raquel Hidalgo Downing, Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense

About the Author

ROBERT COCKCROFT was formerly Lecturer in Rhetoric, Department of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. His previous publications include Rhetorical Affect in Early Modern Writing (2003), also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

SUSAN COCKCROFT is a tutor in English Language at the University of Nottingham, UK, and Principal Examiner in A-level English Language and Literature. She has written several books on language and is currently working on grammar and gender in historical texts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333471636
• ISBN 13: 9780333471630
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196