Audience and Rhetoric: An Archaeological Composition of the Discourse Community
James E. Porter, Purdue University

ISBN-10: 0130506753
ISBN-13: 9780130506757

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 1992
Format: Paper; 176 pp
Status: Available on Demand

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In the Prentice Hall/Studies In Writing and Culture Series. Graduate level text for courses in Teaching Composition. Porter argues the ethical necessity for and pedagogical advantages of a community perspective which more readily acknowledges the audience's potential for contribution to the composing process.

@CHLIST = 1. Introduction: The Problem of Audience.
2. The Theoretical Heritage of Classical Rhetoric.
3. Traditional Rhetoric and the Disappearance of Audience.
4. The New Rhetoric and the Recovery of Audience.
5. Reader-Response Criticism and Audience as Implied Reader.
6. Poststructuralism, Social Constructionism, and Audience as a Community.
7. Composing the Disclosure Community.
8. Conclusion: The Ethical Implications of a Social Vision of Audience.
Appendix.
Bibliographies of Audience.
Bibliography.
Index.

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