Eminent Rhetoric: Language, Gender, and Cultural Tropes

by Elizabeth A. Fay

Fay examines the unacknowledged political uses of language in modern culture that engender and effectuate power imbalances among speakers and listeners. She locates six strategies in which women are particularly targeted by politicized rhetoric and shows how they are used in a variety of language-informed social arenas. Using bell hooks' pedagogy of talking back, Eminent Rhetoric argues that women need not only to learn how to recognize victimizing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897893093
• ISBN13: 9780897893091
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"