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Communication criticism :

Cohen, Jodi R.

Communication criticism : developing your critical powers / Jodi R. Cohen. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1998. - xiv, 221 p. ; 24 cm. - Rhetoric and society ; vol. 2 . - Rhetoric and society (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ; v. 2. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The need to think critically about communication -- How to think critically about communication -- Language as style -- Language as sign systems -- Language as metaphor -- Structure as organization -- Structure as editing images -- Structure as narrative -- Structure as drama -- Reasoning as rhetorical argument -- Reasoning as field dependent-argument -- Reasoning as narrative -- Character as ethos. Character as the second persona -- Character as identification -- Emotion as pathos -- Emotion as desire -- Critical powers over who we are, what we know, and what we do.

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