Title: The perfect response : studies of the rhetorical personality /
Authors: Woodward, Gary C.
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Communication Psychological aspects; Public speaking Psychological aspects.; Communication in politics Psychological aspects.; Rhetoric and psychology.
Contents: 1. Introduction : a conceptual map of the rhetorical personality -- 2. Empathy : finding ourselves in others -- 3. Saving the world one person at a time : the inclination to engage -- 4. Confirming our acceptability : the impulse for self-monitoring -- 5. Autism, the Williams syndrome, and the rhetoric of sociality -- 6. Finding a way through : the films of James L. Brooks -- 7. Lessons from the political stage : the role of the other in the rhetorical and hortatory styles