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Communication criticism : rhetoric, social codes, cultural studies

Title: Communication criticism : rhetoric, social codes, cultural studies / Malcolm O. Sillars, Bruce E. Gronbeck.
Author: Sillars, Malcolm O. (Malcolm Osgood), 1928-
Publication: Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Gronbeck, Bruce E.

Description

xi, 322 pages; 23 cm

Subject

Communication criticism

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-302) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Contemporary Communication Criticism. 1. Communication Criticism Today. 2. Analyzing Texts. 3. Writing Critical Essays -- Pt. II. The Rhetorical Tradition. 4. Accurate Interpretation: Verifying Representation and Interpretation. 5. Formal Criticism: The Aesthetic Worth of a Message. 6. Neoclassical Criticism: Communication as Persuasion -- Pt. III. The Social Tradition. 7. Semiotic Codes: Verbal, Visual, Acoustic, and Performed Texts. 8. Social Criticism: Codes, Relationships, and Power -- Pt. IV. The Cultural Tradition. 9. Value Analysis: Understanding Culture in Value Systems. 10. Narrative Analysis: Reading Culture Through Stories. 11. Psychoanalytic Criticism: The Interaction of the Conscious and the Unconscious. 12. Ideological Criticism: Critiquing Institutions and Empowering Social Groups.

ISBN

1577661710

LCCN

2001269433

OCLC

ocm46611047
SCSB-4069960

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Columbia University Libraries