Rhetoric of Expertise (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780739147030)

The Rhetoric of Expertise conceptualizes expertise as a function of persuasion; specifically, it explores four different contexts-politics, history, medicine, and information-in which expertise is rhetorically constructed in a tension between two competing alternatives. In this book, E. Johanna Hartelius provides a rhetorical theory and vocabulary for understanding expertise. This enriches such perennial concerns in rhetorical studies as credibility, artistic and inartistic means of persuasion, the discursive nature of knowledge, and the rhetoric of power and authority.

Author: E. Johanna Hartelius
ISBN-10: 073914703X
ISBN-13: 9780739147030
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2010
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d