Title: The public work of rhetoric : citizen-scholars and civic engagement /
Authors: Ackerman, John, 1934-; Coogan, David.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Rhetoric Political aspects; Language and languages Political aspects; Political oratory.
Contents: Introduction: the space to work in public life / David J. Coogan and John M. Ackerman -- Rhetoric revealed. Should we name the tools? Concealing and revealing the art of rhetoric / Carolyn R. Miller -- Power, publics, and the rhetorical uses of democracy / Candice Rai -- The public work of critical political communication / M. Lane Bruner -- Rhetorical engagement in the cultural economies of cities / John M. Ackerman -- Democracy and its limitations / Ralph Cintron -- Rhetorical interventions. Rhetorical engagements in the scientist's process of remaking race as genetic / Celeste M. Condit -- Going public in a disabling discourse / Linda Flower -- Sophists for social change / David J. Coogan -- Knowledge work with the Cherokee Nation: the pedagogy of engaging publics in a praxis of new media / Ellen Cushman and Erik Green -- On being useful: rhetoric and the work of engagement / Jeffrey T. Grabill -- Remaking rhetoric in universities and publics. Finding a place for school in rhetoric's public turn / David Fleming -- Mediating differences / Erik Juergensmeyer and Thomas P. Miller -- A place for the dissident press in a rhetorical education: "sending up a signal flare in the darkness" / Diana George and Paula Mathieu -- The community literacy advocacy project: civic revival through rhetorical activity in rural Arkansas / David A. Jolliffe -- The prospects for the public work of rhetoric: a coda on codes / Susan C. Jarratt.