Democratic Vernaculars: Rhetorics of Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Criticism since the Enlightenment

by J. Michael Sproule

Book Overview

Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorical vernacular that occupies the "middle range" of English, bounded on the one side by expressive structure (grammar and linguistics) and on the other by aesthetics (literature).

Broadening the history of rhetoric by considering a vast collection of vernacular resources such as elementary grammars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367416662
• ISBN13: 9780367416669
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"