Democratic Vernaculars: Rhetorics of Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Criticism since the Enlightenment...

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J Michael Sproule

Democratic Vernaculars

Rhetorics of Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Criticism since the Enlightenment

J Michael Sproule

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Routledge
28 February 2020

linguistics; Literature: history & criticism; Communication studies; Historiography; British & Irish history

Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorical vernacular that occupies the “middle range” of English, bounded on the one side by expressive structure (grammar and linguistics) and on the other by aesthetics (literature).

Broadening the history of rhetoric by considering a vast collection of vernacular resources such as elementary grammars and readers, popular guidebooks, textbooks, and rhetorical treatises, this book advances the history of the rhetorical theory and pedagogy since the 17th century by examining ways in which diverse vectors of the rhetorical vernacular coalesced to produce an English language sufficiently idiomatic for practical social exchange while being, at the same time, suitable for higher literary, scholarly, and cultural pursuits.

Democratic Vernaculars is essential reading for scholars in rhetoric and the histories of language and education, and can serve as a text for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric.

By: J Michael Sproule
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 548g
ISBN: 9780367416669
ISBN 10: 0367416662
Pages: 370
Publication Date: 28 February 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

J. Michael Sproule is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at San Jose State University and a past president of the National Communication Association.