Research Catalog

Title

The rhetoric of social intervention : an introduction / Susan K. Opt, Mark Gring.

Author

Opt, Susan K.

Publication

Los Angeles, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gring, Mark.

Description

xviii, 258 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Compatible with traditional and nontraditional approaches to criticism, the book's rhetoric of social intervention model provides a foundation for exploring, interpreting, and intervening in the rhetorical processes that underlie our symbol exchanges. Readers will learn to use the model to (1) reflect on their own symbolic natures, (2) identify rhetorical trends that generate social change, (3) critique social interventions, (4) initiate social interventions, and (5) anticipate the side effects of interventional choices."--Jacket.

Subject

• Social change
• Social problems
• Rhetoric
• Social Problems
• social issues
• rhetoric (discipline)
• Rhetoric
• Social change
• Social problems

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9781412956895
• 1412956897
• 9781412956901
• 1412956900

LCCN

2008017671

OCLC

• ocn226038217
• 226038217
• SCSB-8803461

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library