Political language and rhetoric

Description:

A survey of language communication from oral culture and early literacy through to the impact of electronic technology and what is described as a post-literate culture dominated by visual imagery. The book emphasises the place of rhetoric in this tradition as a theory of communication especially associated with literacy and linear communication in the age of printing.

subjects: Language and languages,  Political aspects,  Political aspects of Language and languages,  Rhetoric,  Political science, terminology,  Language and languages, political aspects,  Sociolinguistics,  Political oratory