TY  - BOOK
AU  - Agnieszka Kampka
AU  - Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
PY  - 2016
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2195-7479
SN  - 9783653059502
TI  - Rhetoric, Knowledge and the Public Sphere
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-05950-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049637
N2  - Public deliberation depends on how skillful communicators are in establishing their version of what is known to be publicly acceptable. This volume provides rhetorical analyses of institutional websites, political speeches, scientific presentations, journalistic accounts or visual entertainment. It shows the significance of rhetorical construction of knowledge in the public sphere. It addresses the issues of citizenship and social participation, media agendas, surveillance and verbal or visual manipulation. It offers rhetorical critiques of current trends in specialist communication and of devices used when contested interests or ideologies are presented.
KW  - citizenship, argumentation, persuasion, mediated communication, public discourse
LA  - English
ER  -