The emergence of a new rhetoric since the 1960s
Subtitle: a history of the linguistic reformation of American culture
By: David Borkowski ; with a foreword by Ira Shor.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press; Edwin Mellen Pr
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780773451308
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States; Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- United States; Student participation in curriculum planning -- United States; Expressivism (Ethics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The Wonder bread decade": the fifties; title: America's schools: business as usual; title: "Looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit":  the sixties; title: Deprogramming "clever robots"; title: The emergence of expressivism in a rebellious era; title: Expressivism's detractors and 'defenders' & its (unfortunate) debt to romanticism.