Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy (Trends in by Anatol Stefanowitsch,Stefan Th. Gries

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

Think figuring out what the mind craves from each story it encounters, what fuels the good fortune of any nice tale, and what retains readers transfixed. stressed out for tale finds those cognitive secrets--and it is a game-changer for an individual who has ever set pen to paper.     nearly all of writing recommendation specializes in "writing good" as though it have been just like telling an excellent tale.

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation)

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century the US revolutionizes how we expect approximately confession and its ubiquitous position in American tradition. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a textual content a confession has develop into some of the most strong, and most unconsidered, sorts of intervening in American cultural politics.

Upsetting Composition Commonplaces

In frightening Composition Commonplaces, Ian Barnard argues that composition nonetheless keeps the majority of tutorial practices that have been utilized in the a long time earlier than poststructuralist thought discredited them. whereas acknowledging that many of the foundational insights of poststructuralist concept will be tricky to translate to the study room, Barnard upends numerous particularly intransigent tenets that proceed to persuade the instructing of writing and the way scholars are inspired to appreciate writing.

Composing Media Composing Embodiment

“What any physique is—and is ready to do—cannot be disentangled from the media we use to eat and bring texts. ” ---from the advent. Kristin Arola and Anne Wysocki argue that composing in new media is composing the body—is embodiment. In Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment), they havebrought jointly a robust set of essays that agree at the want for compositionists—and their students—to have interaction with a variety of new media texts.