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Towards
a Rhetoric of Everyday Life
New
Directions in Research on Writing, Text, and Discourse
Edited
by Martin Nystrand and John Duffy
Rhetoric
of the Human Sciences
Deidre McCloskey and John Nelson, General Editors
How is writing learned and used in
everyday life?
Rhetoric has traditionally studied
acts of persuasion in the affairs of government and men, but
this book investigates the language of other, nontraditional
rhetors, including immigrants, women, urban children, and others
who have long been on the margins of civic life and political
forums. Rhetoric here refers not to the classical arts of persuasion,
or the verbal ornamentation of elite discourse, but rather to
the ways that individuals and groups use language and writing
to constitute their identities and their social worlds. The contributors,
including some of the most productive scholars in research on
rhetoric and composition studies, collectively explore the rhetorical
character of popular culture and institutional discourse. This
volume will appeal to researchers and teachers of writing, rhetoric,
literacy, and education.
Martin Nystrand is professor in the
Graduate Program in Composition and Rhetoric in the Department
of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. John
Duffy is assistant professor of English at the University
of Notre Dame.
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June
2003
320 pp. 7 illus. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-18170-7 Cloth $60.00s
ISBN 0-299-18174-X Paper $24.95s
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