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This handbook provides a wide-ranging, authoritative, and
cutting-edge overview of language and persuasion. Featuring a range
of international contributors, the handbook outlines the basic
materials of linguistic persuasion - sound, words, syntax, and
discourse - and the rhetorical basics that they enable, such as
appeals, argument schemes, arrangement strategies, and
accommodation devices. After a comprehensive introduction that
brings together the elements of linguistics and the vectors of
rhetoric, the handbook is divided into six parts. Part I covers the
basic rhetorical appeals to character, the emotions, argument
schemes, and types of issues that constitute persuasion. Part II
covers the enduring effects of persuasive language, from humor to
polarization, while a special group of chapters in Part III
examines figures of speech and their rhetorical uses. In Part IV,
contributors focus on different fields and genres of argument as
entry points for research into conventions of arguing. Part V
examines the evolutionary and developmental roots of persuasive
language, and Part VI highlights new computational methods of
language analysis. This handbook is essential reading for those
researching and studying persuasive language in the fields of
linguistics, rhetoric, argumentation, communication, discourse
studies, political science, psychology, digital studies, mass
media, and journalism.
Now in its Second Edition, Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science:
Case Studies presents fifteen iconic essays in science studies,
rhetorical criticism, and argumentation. Integral to the launch of
the Landmark Essays series and renowned for its impact on the
then-nascent field of rhetoric of science, this volume returns with
a revised introduction and updated contributions to the field,
including the work of Leah Ceccarelli, James Wynn, Ashley Rose
Mehlenbacher, and Carolyn R. Miller.
Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods compiles
the essential readings of the vibrant field of rhetoric of science,
tracing the growth and core concerns of the field since its
development in the 1970s. A companion to Randy Allen Harris's
foundational Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies,
this volume includes essays by such luminaries as Carolyn R.
Miller, Jeanne Fahnestock, and Alan G. Gross, along with an early
prophetic article by Charles Sanders Pierce. Harris's detailed
introduction puts the field into its social and intellectual
context, and frames the important contributions of each essay,
which range from reimagining classical concepts like rhetorical
figures and topical invention to Modal Materialism and the
Neomodern hybridization of Actor Network Theory with Genre Studies.
Race, revolution, and Daoism come up along the way, and the
empirical recalcitrance of the moon. This collection serves as a
textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in science
studies, and is an invaluable resource for researchers concerned
with science not as a special, autonomous, sacrosanct enterprise,
but as a set of value-saturated, profoundly influential rhetorical
practices.
Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Issues and Methods compiles
the essential readings of the vibrant field of rhetoric of science,
tracing the growth and core concerns of the field since its
development in the 1970s. A companion to Randy Allen Harris's
foundational Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies,
this volume includes essays by such luminaries as Carolyn R.
Miller, Jeanne Fahnestock, and Alan G. Gross, along with an early
prophetic article by Charles Sanders Pierce. Harris's detailed
introduction puts the field into its social and intellectual
context, and frames the important contributions of each essay,
which range from reimagining classical concepts like rhetorical
figures and topical invention to Modal Materialism and the
Neomodern hybridization of Actor Network Theory with Genre Studies.
Race, revolution, and Daoism come up along the way, and the
empirical recalcitrance of the moon. This collection serves as a
textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in science
studies, and is an invaluable resource for researchers concerned
with science not as a special, autonomous, sacrosanct enterprise,
but as a set of value-saturated, profoundly influential rhetorical
practices.
Now in its Second Edition, Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science:
Case Studies presents fifteen iconic essays in science studies,
rhetorical criticism, and argumentation. Integral to the launch of
the Landmark Essays series and renowned for its impact on the
then-nascent field of rhetoric of science, this volume returns with
a revised introduction and updated contributions to the field,
including the work of Leah Ceccarelli, James Wynn, Ashley Rose
Mehlenbacher, and Carolyn R. Miller.
Modern computer architectures designed with high-performance
microprocessors offer tremendous potential gains in performance
over previous designs. Yet their very complexity makes it
increasingly difficult to produce efficient code and to realize
their full potential. This landmark text from two leaders in the
field focuses on the pivotal role that compilers can play in
addressing this critical issue.
The basis for all the methods presented in this book is data
dependence, a fundamental compiler analysis tool for optimizing
programs on high-performance microprocessors and parallel
architectures. It enables compiler designers to write compilers
that automatically transform simple, sequential programs into forms
that can exploit special features of these modern
architectures.
The text provides a broad introduction to data dependence, to the
many transformation strategies it supports, and to its applications
to important optimization problems such as parallelization,
compiler memory hierarchy management, and instruction scheduling.
The authors demonstrate the importance and wide applicability of
dependence-based compiler optimizations and give the compiler
writer the basics needed to understand and implement them. They
also offer cookbook explanations for transforming applications by
hand to computational scientists and engineers who are driven to
obtain the best possible performance of their complex
applications.
The approaches presented are based on research conducted over the
past two decades, emphasizing the strategies implemented in
research prototypes at Rice University and in several associated
commercial systems. Randy Allen and Ken Kennedy have provided an
indispensable resource for researchers, practicing professionals,
and graduate students engaged in designing and optimizing compilers
for modern computer architectures.
* Offers a guide to the simple, practical algorithms and approaches
that are most effective in real-world, high-performance
microprocessor and parallel systems.
* Demonstrates each transformation in worked examples.
* Examines how two case study compilers implement the theories and
practices described in each chapter.
* Presents the most complete treatment of memory hierarchy issues
of any compiler text.
* Illustrates ordering relationships with dependence graphs
throughout the book.
* Applies the techniques to a variety of languages, including
Fortran 77, C, hardware definition languages, Fortran 90, and High
Performance Fortran.
* Provides extensive references to the most sophisticated
algorithms known in research.
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Industrial Crops and Uses (Hardcover, New)
Randy Allen; Edited by Bharat Singh; Contributions by Harbans Bhardwaj, Benjamin Campbell, Enrico Casadei, …
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The demand for plant-based industrial raw materials has increased
as well as research into expanding the utility of plants for
current and future uses. Plants are renewable, have limited or
positive environmental impact and have the potential to yield a
wide range of products in contrast to petroleum-based materials.
Plants can be used in a variety of different industries and
products including bioenergy, industrial oil and starch, fibre and
dye, rubber and related compounds, insecticide and land
rehabilitation. This title offers a comprehensive coverage of each
of these uses. Chapters discuss the identification of plant species
with desired traits, their cultivation to obtain the needed raw
materials, methods utilized in producing different finished
products, current and future research in crop production and
processing and the present state and future prospects for the
industry. Providing the first systematic review of industrial crops
and their uses, this book will be an important resource for
students and researchers of crop science and agricultural policy
makers.
An updated and expanded history of the field of linguistics from
the 1950s to the current day The Linguistics Wars tells the
tumultuous history of language and cognition studies from the rise
of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to the current day.
Focusing on the rupture that split the field between Chomsky's
structuralist vision and George Lakoff's meaning-driven theories,
Randy Allen Harris portrays the extraordinary personalities that
were central to the dispute and its aftermath, alongside the data,
technical developments, and social currents that fueled the
unfolding and expanding schism. This new edition, updated to cover
the more than twenty-five years since its original publication and
to trace the impact of that schism on the shape of linguistics in
the twenty-first century, is essential reading for all those
interested in the study of language, the making of knowledge, and
some of the most brilliant minds of our era.
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