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Author Opt, Susan K.

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

Publication Info. Los Angeles, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 258 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
Summary This text presents a thorough exploration and discussion of the rhetorical model of social intervention for today's students and scholars. The communication-based model provides students with a systemic framework for interpreting, analyzing and critiquing social and cultural change from a rhetorical perspective.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Social change.
Social change.
Social problems.
Social problems.
Rhetoric.
Rhetoric.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Gring, Mark Andrew, 1959-
Other Form: Print version: Opt, Susan K. Rhetoric of social intervention. Los Angeles, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2009 (DLC) 2008017671 (OCoLC)226038217
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