TY - BOOK ID - 124974609 TI - Rhetoric, knowledge and the public sphere AU - Kampka, Agnieszka AU - Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna PY - 2016 SN - 9783631666333 PB - Frankfurt am Main ; Bern ; Bruxelles ; New York ; Oxford ; Warszawa ; Wien : Peter Lang Edition, DB - UniCat KW - Communication models KW - Rhetoric KW - Information society KW - Knowledge economy KW - Discourse analysis KW - Critical discourse analysis KW - Speech acts (Linguistics) KW - Social aspects. KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:124974609 AB - Public deliberation depends on how skillful communicators are in establishing their version of what is known to be publicly acceptable. This volume provides rhetorical analyses of institutional websites, political speeches, scientific presentations, journalistic accounts or visual entertainment. It shows the significance of rhetorical construction of knowledge in the public sphere. It addresses the issues of citizenship and social participation, media agendas, surveillance and verbal or visual manipulation. It offers rhetorical critiques of current trends in specialist communication and of devices used when contested interests or ideologies are presented. ER -