Rhetorics of Display (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) - Softcover

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9781570036194: Rhetorics of Display (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)
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ISBN 10: 1570036195 ISBN 13: 9781570036194
Publisher: University South Carolina Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Rhetorics of Display is a pathbreaking volume that brings together a distinguished group of scholars to assess an increasingly pervasive form of rhetorical activity. Editor Lawrence J. Prelli notes in his introduction that twenty-first century citizens continually confront displays of information and images, from the verbal images of speeches and literature to visual images of film and photography to exhibits in museums to the arrangement of our homes to the merchandising of consumer goods. The volume provides an integrated, comprehensive study of the processes of selecting what to reveal and what to conceal that together constitute the rhetorics of display. Surveying major historical transformations in the relationship between rhetoric and display, this book also identifies the leading themes in relevant scholarship of the past three decades. Seventeen case studies canvass a representative and diverse range of displays - from body piercing to a civil rights memorial to a Titanic exhibition to imagery found in gambling casinos - and examine the ways that phenomena, persons, places, events, identities, communities, and cultures are exhibited before audiences. Collectively the contributors shed light on rhetorics that are nearly ubiquitous in contemporary communication and culture.

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About the Author

Lawrence J. Prelli is an associate professor of communication, chairperson of the Department of Communication, and an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Natural Resources at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of A Rhetoric of Science: Inventing Scientific Discourse (USCP ISBN 0-87249-645-7), which received the 1990 Eastern Communication Association's Everett Lee Hunt Award.

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Publisher
University South Carolina Pr
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1570036195
ISBN 13 
9781570036194
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
416
Editor
Prelli Lawrence J.

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