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Huckin, Thomas; Andrus, Jennifer; Clary-Lemon, Jennifer – College Composition and Communication, 2012
Over the past two decades, critical discourse analysis has emerged as a major new multidisciplinary approach to the study of texts and contexts in the public sphere. Developed in Europe, CDA has lately become increasingly popular in North America, where it is proving especially congenial to new directions in rhetoric and composition. This essay…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Wexler, Steven – College Composition and Communication, 2009
State, citizen, and corporate readings of a multifarious "Chineseness" fundamentally shape the space where East and West clash in post-Mao China. This dialectic represents a citizen's working-through a crisis of agency and a nation's negotiation of its role within a global economy. Given that China's subaltern literacies operate within…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis
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Trabold, Bryan – College Composition and Communication, 2009
This article examines the rhetoric of resistance used by South African anti-apartheid journalists to expose the links between the apartheid government and death squads. By utilizing allusions, repetition, and a concept I refer to as "subversive enthymemes," these journalists managed to reveal publicly information about death squad…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Racial Segregation, Crime, Death
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Donahue, Christiane – College Composition and Communication, 2009
While "internationalization" has become a buzzword in composition scholarship and teaching, our discourses tend toward fuzzy uses and understandings of the term and its multiple implications. We tend to focus on how our U.S. experience is being internationalized: how English and its teaching are spreading; how other countries, different…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Research, Writing Instruction, Rhetoric