Language Arts
Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication
This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.
Welding Technical Communication
Explores the teaching and learning of welding through two narratives: the personal narrative, relating the author's experience as a woman learning how to weld, and the academic narrative examining how instructional communication informs students' embodied knowledge and enculturation into a community of practice.
Post-Chineseness
Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.
Translating Buddhism
Explores key questions about translations and translators of South Asian Buddhist texts, past and present.
Joan Didion
Explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically.
Bordered Writers
Examines innovative writing pedagogies and the experiences of Latinx student writers at Hispanic-Serving Institutions nationwide.
Dao and Sign in History
Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.
The Room Is on Fire
Blends history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events.
On Self-Translation
A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.
Reflecting Pool
Both an anthology and an informal textbook that features poetry and essays by twenty-five New York State poets.
Getting Personal
Addresses how digital forms of personal writing can be most effectively used by teachers, students, and other community members.
Peaceful Persuasion
Offers a conceptual foundation for nonviolent rhetoric.
Green Voices
Essays addressing relatively unknown or unexamined speeches delivered by famous or influential environmental figures.
Creating Nonfiction
A diverse collection of essays and companion interviews that offer insight into the inspiration, drafting, and revision process.
The Lure of Literacy
Examines proposals for freshman composition’s abolition and reform while providing a new model for courses.
The Other Side of Pedagogy
Delineates Lacan’s theory of the four discourses as a practical framework through which faculty can reflect on where their students are, developmentally, and where they might go.
Letters to a Best Friend
A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.
Borges, Second Edition
Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography.
Chinese through Song, Second Edition
An innovative approach to teaching Chinese language and culture, using folk and popular songs.
Vernacular Insurrections
Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education.
Zines in Third Space
Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.
Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the United States Supreme Court
How oral arguments influence the decisions of Supreme Court justices.
Coach
Twenty-five celebrated writers share the encouraging words and timeless wisdom of the coaches who influenced their lives.
Active Voices
Explores the relationship between social movements and rhetorical theory and practice.
Hocak Teaching Materials, Volume 2
Second volume of instructional materials for learning the original Hochunk language, featuring entire texts and a CD.
Hocak Teaching Materials, Volume 1
Comprehensive bilingual dictionary of the Hochunk language.
Making Poems
Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.
Measured Meals
Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language.
Composition and Copyright
Essential copyright resource for teachers and writers, particularly those involved in electronic or new media.
The Passionate Empiricist
Explores John Quincy Adams’s oratorical work in support of government-funded science.
Between Speaking and Silence
Explores the question of student silence from students’ perspectives and challenges the conventional wisdom about silent students.
Non-discursive Rhetoric
Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.
The Wound and the Witness
Explores the rhetorical functions of torture and the witnessing of torture in both classical texts and contemporary contexts.
Writing-Based Teaching
Offers candid, first-hand accounts of what it is like to make writing central to teaching in secondary schools and colleges.
Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language
Aims to transform logic into a reflection on the nature of language.
City of Rhetoric
Examines the relationship of civic discourse to built environments through a case study of the Cabrini Green urban revitalization project in Chicago.
Ecosee
Examines the rhetorical role of images in communicating environmental ideas.
Death in the Classroom
Shows how death education can be brought from the healing professions to the literature classroom.
How the Gene Got Its Groove
Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century.
The Way Literacy Lives
Challenges an autonomous model of literacy instruction in favor of one that recognizes and builds on students’ facility in navigating other rhetorical contexts.
Alterity and Narrative
Intertwines identity and culture to demonstrate how identity is negotiated over a given history.
Participation and Power
Takes a firsthand look at a case of public participation in environmental policy.
Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students
Engages the complexities of teaching Latino/a students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
Critical Power Tools
The first sourcebook for rethinking technical communication theory, practice, pedagogy, and research through a cultural studies lens.
Sins against Science
Recounts the fake news stories, written from 1830 to 1880, about scientific and technological discoveries, and the effect these hoaxes had on readers and their trust in science.
Dying to Teach
Affirms the power of writing to memorialize loss and work through grief.
The Function of Theory in Composition Studies
Offers an extended critique of key assumptions in composition theory and a new paradigm for thinking about writing in an increasingly globalized and textualized world.
Heidegger and Rhetoric
Leading scholars address Heidegger’s 1924 lecture course, “Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy. ”
Postmodern Sophistry
An intensive examination of the theoretical writings of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish.
Trauma and the Teaching of Writing
Analyzing their own responses to national traumas, writing teachers question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.
The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition
Interrogates the story of rhetoric promoted in standard historical accounts and reconsiders the relationship between rhetorical theory, practice, and pedagogy.
Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks
Examines rhetorical practices in cultures and time periods that have received little attention to date.
Virtual Peer Review
Offers a thorough look at peer review in virtual environments.
The Realms of Rhetoric
Argues for a more theoretically-informed and cogent curricular space for rhetoric in the academy.
Writing Power
Adds to our understanding of the powerful nature of texts and writing.
Metaphor and Knowledge
Analyzing the power of metaphor in the rhetoric of science, this book examines the use of words to express complex scientific concepts.
Signifying Pain
Explores the therapeutic uses and effects of writing in a post-Freudian age.
City Comp
An exploration of the diverse ways that writing is taught in some unique urban settings.
How the World Became a Stage
Argues that the experience of modernity is fundamentally spatial rather than subjective.
Justifying Belief
The first in-depth study of Stanley Fish's nonliterary writings.
Traversing the Democratic Borders of the Essay
Extends the borders of essay scholarship by reading Latin American and Latino/a essayists alongside European and American ones.
Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change
An examination of community literacy programs--with an eye toward radical change.
Writing Inventions
A collection of instructional stories, research, and classroom applications for teachers who use computers in their writing instruction.
End of Story
Argues that the academy's obsession with language, and in particular with narrative, has become a sort of disease.
Terms of Work for Composition
A cultural materialist critique of six key terms used in composition studies to define its work.
Advances in African Linguistics
A selection of papers presented at the 28th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.
Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World
Offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism and intellectual property.
The Resistant Writer
A cultural history of the origins of composition studies that sheds new light on contemporary debates regarding the role of rhetoric in student transformation.
Women/Writing/Teaching
Presents autobiographical visions of women writing teachers--their intertwined lives as professionals, feminists, writers, instructors, and colleagues.
Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition
Eminent scholars discuss the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies.
A Theory of Phrase Markers and the Extended Base
Addresses questions of phrase structure and theoretical architecture within a principles and parameters framework.
Translating by Factors
By emphasizing, using English-German examples, the notion of factor set, this book fosters the awareness that successful and adequate translation requires properly accounting for the pertinent translation ...
Prepositions and Complement Clauses
Provides a pioneering and data-oriented investigation of the syntax and semantics of important prepositional complementation patterns dependent on the prepositions in, to, at, on, with, and of in present-day English.
Teachers, Discourses, and Authority in the Postmodern Composition Classroom
Examines the teacher’s role and the teacher’s authority in postmodern academic settings.
Zen in the Art of Rhetoric
Explores relationships between classical and contemporary approaches to rhetoric and their connection to the underlying assumptions at work in Zen Buddhism.
Commitment in Dialogue
Develops a logical analysis of dialogue in which two or more parties attempt to advance their own interests. It includes a classification of the major types of dialogues and a discussion of several important informal fallacies.
Philosophy of the Sign
This book presents a coherent philosophy of signs without postulating objects to which they refer or meanings which they express.
Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology
This is the first complete theory of the morphology of language, a compendium of information on morphological categories and operations.
Dyke Ideas
Dyke Ideas is a passionate and insightful contribution to lesbian philosophy. The main value is wimmin—women separate from men and men's inventions. "Craziness," guilt, competition, sex, and other topics ...
Understanding Language Acquisition
How is language acquisition possible? How is it that humans, within a few years of birth, can speak and understand language, transcending both its limited experience and biological limitations?
In this ...
Gaps in Nature
This book is a study of the relation between cognitive linguistics and literary theory. Theory of literary interpretation is reinterpreted in terms of current debate in cognitive science. While research ...
Esperanto
Esperanto, spoken by thousands of people across the world, is the most successful international language project. In this book, the French linguist and literary critic Pierre Janton describes the history ...
Morphology Now
Several distinct general linguistic theories are represented here: autolexical theory, categorial grammar, functional grammar, and government and binding syntax. Each essay in this book is centered around ...
Aristotelian Logic and the Arabic Language in Alfarabi
This book explores the reaction of tenth-century Arab philosopher Abu Nasr Alfarabi to the logical works of Aristotle. From numerous short treatises the author develops a systematic and comprehensive ...
Markedness
Battistella traces the development of markedness theory as a central part of structuralist theories of language. He outlines the concepts of marked and unmarked from Prague School structuralism to present ...
On the Logic of Ordinary Conditionals
On the Logic of Ordinary Conditionals offers a formal treatment of the logic of a type of conditional found in natural speech which differs substantially from the material conditional of propositional ...
On Monosemy
In this book, the author argues that words should be presumed initially to be monosemic: having a single, highly abstract meaning. Semantic research should first seek a unitary meaning, resorting to polysemy, ...
Complementation and Case Grammar
This book offers a new and compendious account of important verbal patterns in present-day English. Serving as a central source of data, it updates and refines earlier research contributing to the syntactic ...
Theoretical Perspectives on Native American Languages
American linguistics has a tradition of finding unique and important insights from studies of Native American languages, often leading to innovations in current theories. At the same time, research on ...
Informal Lectures on Formal Semantics
This book is an introduction to the current developments in model-theoretic semantics, which has become an essential part of the work in theoretical linguistics over the last decade. The author examines ...
The Science of Linguistics in the Art of Translation
Drawing from more than two hundred examples representing twenty-two languages of wide genetic and typological variety, the author guides the reader through a broad collection of situations encountered ...
Dependency Syntax
This work presents the first sustained examination of Dependency Syntax. In clear and stimulating analyses Mel'cuk promotes syntactic description in terms of dependency rather than in terms of more familiar ...
Principles of Deductive Logic
Clear focus on its application of formal logic to ordinary English is the most distinctive feature of this textbook for the introductory course in deductive logic. Great care is taken with the appropriate ...
An Integrated Theory of Autosegmental Processes
This volume resolves an inconsistency that has arisen in the autosegmental theory of phonology and morphology - some versions of this theory allow a single distinctive feature to be duplicated on more ...
Teaching Writing
This anthology explores the relationship between feminism and writing theory. The chapters cover the major issues: basic pedagogical theory and philosophical approaches to the teaching of writing, studies ...
Studies of Passive Clauses
In this work, Paul M. Postal supports the universalist theory of language by examining passive clauses. Contrary to a skeptical tradition, Postal argues that passive clauses are cross-linguistically identifiable ...
Using Language
In a pioneer study of how language is actually used, Dr. Kearns combines the rigor of formal logic with a detailed analysis of natural language patterns. Through this double focus, he develops artificial ...
Language and the Sexes
In a highly readable and lively text, the authors explore the way language mirrors our cultural assumptions, especially those concerned with gender distinctions. Focusing on contemporary issues, they ...
Semiotics and Linguistic Structure
This book is devoted to elementary formal logic and metalogic, and their applications to language.