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Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication


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This series is our home for cutting-edge scholarly studies and edited collections in the fields of rhetoric and writing studies. Interdisciplinary in approaches, these titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.

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Children as Rhetorical Advocates in Social Movements

Children as Rhetorical Advocates in Social Movements

1st Edition

By Luke Winslow, Eli Mangold
March 05, 2024

This book examines “Rhetorical Children” as visible and vocal communicators, shaping public discourse on contentious social issues related to organized labor, civil rights, gun violence, and climate change. This book explores four key social movement case studies: the 1903 Mother Jones-led March of...

Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary The Academic Writing of Christian Undergraduates at a Public University

Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary: The Academic Writing of Christian Undergraduates at a Public University

1st Edition

By Emily Murphy Cope
February 13, 2024

Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary addresses the question of how Christian undergraduates engage in academic writing and how best to teach them to participate in academic inquiry and prepare them for civic engagement. Exploring how the secular both constrains and supports undergraduates’ ...

White Sororities and the Cultural Work of Belonging

White Sororities and the Cultural Work of Belonging

1st Edition

By Charlotte Hogg
December 19, 2023

Charlotte Hogg takes a close look, through the example of White university sororities, at how we create and cling to subcultures through the notion of belonging, and how spoken and unspoken rhetorics contribute to this notion. Renewed calls to end Greek-letter organizations for racism and sexism, ...

Patients Making Meaning Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health

Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health

1st Edition

By Bryna Siegel Finer, Cathryn Molloy, Jamie White-Farnham
September 20, 2023

This book explores how women make meaning at various health flashpoints in their lives, overcoming fear, anxiety, and anger to draw upon self-advocacy, research, and crucial decision-making. Combining focus group research, content analysis, autoethnography, and textual inquiry, the book argues that...

Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters

Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters

1st Edition

By Eric Leake
August 04, 2023

Difficult Empathy takes up the question of empathy as fundamentally a rhetorical concern, focusing on the ways we encounter and understand one another in what we read and write, hear and say. The book centres around the argument that empathy as a rhetorical event occurs not simply in the minds of ...

American Women Activists and Autobiography Rhetorical Lives

American Women Activists and Autobiography: Rhetorical Lives

1st Edition

By Heather Ostman
May 31, 2023

American Women Activists and Autobiography examines the feminist rhetorics that emerge in six very different activists’ autobiographies, as they simultaneously tell the stories of unconventional women’s lives and manifest the authors’ arguments for social and political change, as well as provide ...

Violence, Silence, and Rhetorical Cultures of Champion-Building in Sports

Violence, Silence, and Rhetorical Cultures of Champion-Building in Sports

1st Edition

By Kathleen Sandell Hardesty
December 23, 2022

This book takes a close look at systems and rhetorics of silencing in sports training. Using the case study of the Larry Nassar abuse scandal at Michigan State University and within USA Gymnastics, the book explores multifaceted problems of speaking, silencing, and listening in youth and college ...

Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage Theory in the Body

Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage: Theory in the Body

1st Edition

By Fiona Harris Ramsby
August 01, 2022

Through a fusion of narrative and analysis, Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage examines how theater can enact critical discourse analysis and how micro-instances of iniquitous language use have been politically and historically reiterated to oppress and deny equal rights to marginalized ...

Sacred Rhetorical Education in 19th Century America Austin Phelps at Andover Theological Seminary

Sacred Rhetorical Education in 19th Century America: Austin Phelps at Andover Theological Seminary

1st Edition

By Michael-John DePalma
February 04, 2020

This book offers new insight into the ways rhetorical educators’ religious motives influenced the shape of nineteenth-century rhetorical education and invites scholars of writing and rhetoric to consider what the study of religiously-animated pedagogies might reveal about rhetorical education ...

The Effects of Intellectual Property Law in Writing Studies Ethics, Sponsors, and Academic Knowledge-Making

The Effects of Intellectual Property Law in Writing Studies: Ethics, Sponsors, and Academic Knowledge-Making

1st Edition

By Karen J. Lunsford, James P. Purdy
December 05, 2019

This book documents the intellectual property experiences of writing studies scholars and challenges naturalized ways of responding to intellectual property concerns. Analyzing results of a nationwide survey and semi-structured interviews to examine ways decisions about intellectual property (IP)...

Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis

Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine: Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis

1st Edition

By Cathryn Molloy
October 17, 2019

This book explores rhetorical ethos and its ongoing role in patients’ credibility and in misdiagnoses stemming from gender, race and class-based biases. Drawing on the concept of ethos as a theoretical framework, it explores health and mental illness across different conditions and across different...

Digital Ethics Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression

Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression

1st Edition

Edited By Jessica Reyman, Erika Sparby
August 12, 2019

Digital Ethics delves into the shifting legal and ethical landscape in digital spaces and explores productive approaches for theorizing, understanding, and navigating through difficult ethical issues online. Contributions from leading scholars address how changing technologies and media over the ...

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