Sweet Reason - Rhetoric and the Discourses of Modernity

Summary

This volume presents a rhetorical model for understanding the diverse discourses of modernity. Wells describes modernity as a system of texts which we are only now learning to read and offers a rhetoric based on an understanding of meaning as intersubjectivity created through the work of language.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Wells, Wells Susan
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.1996
• EAN: 9780226893372
• ISBN: 978-0-226-89337-2
• No. of pages: 295
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 425 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc