The rhetoric of social intervention an introduction

Opt, Susan K. (Author). Gring, Mark Andrew, 1959- (Added Author).

Summary: This text presents a thorough exploration and discussion of the rhetorical model of social intervention for today's students and scholars. The communication-based model provides students with a systemic framework for interpreting, analyzing and critiquing social and cultural change from a rhetorical perspective.

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ISBN: 9781452215235 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1452215235 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781412956895 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1412956897 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781412956901 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1412956900 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781452274935 (ebook)
ISBN: 1452274932 (ebook)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xviii, 258 pages) : illustrations
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatBulkString:jan.03.13 Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Section I: The rhetoric of social intervention model. Rhetoric as social intervention ; Naming as social intervention ; Systemic naming as social intervention ; Widening circles of intervention ; Process and practice of RSI criticism ; Process and practice of intervention -- Section II: RSI criticism essays. From count them out to count us in: renaming the expectancies of down syndrome / Shannon DeBord ; "The lady's not for turning": Margaret Thatcher's attention intervention / Seth Phillips and Mark A Gring ; The butterflies' rhetorical challenge: the choices of social interveners / Omolara Oyelakin ; Born to power: influence in the rhetoric of the posse comitatus / Lee Snyder.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.