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- catalog abstract ""Brummett explores the ways people use three key terms--reality, representation, and simulation--as rhetorical devices with political and social effect. People write and speak as if there were such things as reality, representation, and simulation. People treat the terms as if they were clearly referential and as if those referents were clearly distinct. But what kind of political, social work do people do when they write and speak in those terms? What kind of claim is being made, or accusation leveled when such a term is used? How do the dimensions and parameters of meaning facilitated by each term work in the management and distribution of power?" "These are questions of rhetoric, the manipulation of signs and symbols for influence and effect. Brummett illustates the rhetoric of reality in a critical analysis of William Gibson's science fiction novels. The rhetoric of representation is shown in discusions on the usenet group rec.motorcyles. The rhetoric of simulation is explained through the film Groundhog Day. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and researchers involved with rhetoric and popular culture, media, communication, and technology, and the literature of science and science fiction."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12850968.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Brummett explores the ways people use three key terms--reality, representation, and simulation--as rhetorical devices with political and social effect. People write and speak as if there were such things as reality, representation, and simulation. People treat the terms as if they were clearly referential and as if those referents were clearly distinct. But what kind of political, social work do people do when they write and speak in those terms? What kind of claim is being made, or accusation leveled when such a term is used? How do the dimensions and parameters of meaning facilitated by each term work in the management and distribution of power?" "These are questions of rhetoric, the manipulation of signs and symbols for influence and effect. Brummett illustates the rhetoric of reality in a critical analysis of William Gibson's science fiction novels. The rhetoric of representation is shown in discusions on the usenet group rec.motorcyles. The rhetoric of simulation is explained through the film Groundhog Day. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and researchers involved with rhetoric and popular culture, media, communication, and technology, and the literature of science and science fiction."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Reality, representation, simulation -- 2. A construction project: why the key terms converge -- 3. Realtiy, representation, and simulation in structures of experience -- 4. Reality, representation, and simulation in lived experience -- 5. A rhetoric of reality in the novels of William Gibson -- 6. A rhetoric of representation in rec.motorcycles -- 7. The simulational self in Groundhog Day.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-151) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 154 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "World and how we describe it.".
- catalog identifier "0275980197 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "World and how we describe it.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Westport, Conn. : Praeger,".
- catalog relation "World and how we describe it.".
- catalog subject "808 21".
- catalog subject "Language and culture.".
- catalog subject "P302 .B86 2003".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric.".
- catalog subject "Semantics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Reality, representation, simulation -- 2. A construction project: why the key terms converge -- 3. Realtiy, representation, and simulation in structures of experience -- 4. Reality, representation, and simulation in lived experience -- 5. A rhetoric of reality in the novels of William Gibson -- 6. A rhetoric of representation in rec.motorcycles -- 7. The simulational self in Groundhog Day.".
- catalog title "The world and how we describe it : rhetorics of reality, representation, simulation / Barry Brummett.".
- catalog type "text".