Communication criticism : developing your critical powers / 6
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Jodi R. Cohen.
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- xiv, 221 p. 24 cm.
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- Rhetoric and society vol. 2 .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The need to think critically about communication -- How to think critically about communication -- Language as style -- Language as sign systems -- Language as metaphor -- Structure as organization -- Structure as editing images -- Structure as narrative -- Structure as drama -- Reasoning as rhetorical argument -- Reasoning as field dependent-argument -- Reasoning as narrative -- Character as ethos.;Character as the second persona -- Character as identification -- Emotion as pathos -- Emotion as desire -- Critical powers over who we are, what we know, and what we do.