Book Review| March 01 2015 The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama. By Richard W. Leeman. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012; pp. vii + 275. $75.00 cloth. Derek Sweet Derek Sweet Luther College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 181–184. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0181 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Derek Sweet; The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2015; 18 (1): 181–184. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.1.0181 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

“Sarah Tinker Perrault examines popular science writing to highlight how communication between science and civic society has inhibited the formation of a democratic process of communication between these two populations.”

“Rhetorics of Motherhood unveils this discursive construction of motherhood within three distinct historical and American contexts to theorize motherhood as a rhetorical strategy that both disadvantages and advantages women.”

Recensione del volume di Carlo Fanelli Con la bocca di un'altra persona. Retorica e drammaturgia nel teatro del Rinascimento

Book Review| February 01 2015 Review: L'arte dell'autoelogio. Studio sull'orazione 28 K di Elio Aristide, con testo, traduzione e commento, by Lorenzo Miletti Lorenzo Miletti, L'arte dell'autoelogio. Studio sull'orazione 28 K di Elio Aristide, con testo, traduzione e commento, Pisa: ETS. 238 pp. ISBN 978-88-467-2960-6 Elisabetta Berardi Elisabetta Berardi Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Torino, via sant'Ottavio 20, 10124 Torino, ITALY. elisabetta.berardi@unito.it Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2015) 33 (1): 97–100. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2015.33.1.97 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Elisabetta Berardi; Review: L'arte dell'autoelogio. Studio sull'orazione 28 K di Elio Aristide, con testo, traduzione e commento, by Lorenzo Miletti. Rhetorica 1 February 2015; 33 (1): 97–100. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2015.33.1.97 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2015 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| February 01 2015 Review: Voir la philosophie. Les représentations de la philosophie à Rome. Rhétorique et philosophie de Cicéron à Marc Aurèle (Études anciennes, série latine 71), by Juliette Dross Juliette Dross, Voir la philosophie. Les représentations de la philosophie à Rome. Rhétorique et philosophie de Cicéron à Marc Aurèle (Études anciennes, série latine 71), Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2010. 413 pp., ISBN 978-2-251-32883-6 Sabine Luciani Sabine Luciani Textes et documents de la Méditerranée antique etmédiévale, Aix-Marseille Université, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, 5, rue du château de l'horloge, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE. sabine.luciani@sfr.fr Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2015) 33 (1): 100–103. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2015.33.1.100 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sabine Luciani; Review: Voir la philosophie. Les représentations de la philosophie à Rome. Rhétorique et philosophie de Cicéron à Marc Aurèle (Études anciennes, série latine 71), by Juliette Dross. Rhetorica 1 February 2015; 33 (1): 100–103. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2015.33.1.100 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2015 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| February 01 2015 Review: L'image tragique de l'Histoire chez Tacite – Étude des schèmes tragiques dans les Histoires et les, by Fabrice Galtier Fabrice Galtier, L'image tragique de l'Histoire chez Tacite – Étude des schèmes tragiques dans les Histoires et lesAnnales, Bruxelles: Latomus (vol. 333), 2011, 344 pages. ISBN: 978-2-87031-274-2 Paul M. Martin Paul M. Martin Université de Montpellier-III, 34A rue du puits Mariette, 85330 Noirmoutier-en-l'île, FRANCE. paul.martin3@wanadoo.fr Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2015) 33 (1): 103–106. https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2015.33.1.103 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Paul M. Martin; Review: L'image tragique de l'Histoire chez Tacite – Étude des schèmes tragiques dans les Histoires et les, by Fabrice Galtier. Rhetorica 1 February 2015; 33 (1): 103–106. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/RH.2015.33.1.103 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2015 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Reviewed are: Literacy, Economy, and Power: Writing and Research after Literacy in American Lives John Duffy, Julie Nelson Christoph, Eli Goldblatt, Nelson Graff, Rebecca S. Nowacek, and Bryan Trabold, eds. Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography Eli Goldblatt PHD (Po H# on Dope) to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life Elaine Richardson Rhetoric of Respect: Recognizing Change at a Community Writing Center Tiffany Rousculp

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106 RHETORICA tuta, l'autre non. Tarquín le Superbe avait eu pour premier peintre Accius; les Princes impériaux ont eu Tacite. Dans les deux cas, la domus, royale ou impériale, est montrée comme le cadre privilégié où se joue le huis clos tragique du pouvoir monarchique. C'est cette réalité théâtrale du pouvoir solitaire—celle des derniers mots prononcés par Auguste mourant—que dépeint Tacite. Tel est à la fois le primum mouens et le sens de l'enquête menée avec brio par F. G. Paul M. Martin Université de Montpellier-III Cario Fanelli, Con la bocea di uríaltra persona. Retorica e drammaturgia nel teatro del Rinascimento, Roma: Bulzoni, 2011. 349 pp. ISBN: 97888 -7870-588-3 II volume di Cario Fanelli, pubblicato nella collana della Biblioteca teatrale dell'editore Bulzoni, é sorretto dall'ambizioso obiettivo di daré forma unitaria alie molteplici intersezioni tra le esperienze teatrali di CinqueSeicento e la retorica classica. II terreno d'indagine é quanto mai complesso, ma il percorso che l'A. si prefigge appare di sicuro interesse. Come rilevato nell'introduzione (pp. 11-14), l'eloquenza assume infatti nella prima meta del sedicesimo secolo un solido modello di riferimento per i letterati del tempo, fino a costituire uno stabile complesso di norme atte ad ispirare la produzione di vari generi letterari. Per questa ragione, il primo capitolo del volume, Antica eloquenza e teatrofra Umanesimo e Rinascimento (pp. 15-73), é volto a riaffermare Tassetto costitutivo del teatro rinascimentale a partiré dalla riscoperta della classicitá. É proprio su questa base che l'A. ribadisce la giusta esigenza di valorizzare l'esperienza della trattatistica propria della retorica antica come canale privilegiato per Taccesso ai precetti della recitazione antica. Fondamentale in questo senso il pensiero di Aristotele, la cui centralita viene ribadita a partiré dalla lettura di alcune pagine della Rhetorica; di grande interesse sono inoltre le considerazioni relativo al De elocutione di Demetrio di Falero, opera pubblicata nel 1508 da Aldo Manuzio e che ebbe un fortunato commento a meta del sedicesimo secolo per opera di Pietro Vettori. II secondo capitolo (pp. 75-153) concentra poi la sua attenzione sulla commedia, genere che trova nella cornice delle feste cortigiane un posto di primo piano. Naturalmente, non sará il modello di Aristofane ad ispirare le scelte dei commediografi del tempo, ma i comici latini, Plauto e, soprattutto, Terenzio, le cui commedie, che avevano giá conosciuto le riprese medievali di Rosvita, sono considérate un compiuto modello di decorum. D'altra parte, anche quando sará il modello di Aristofane a prevalere, come avviene nella fabula Penia di Rinuccio Aretino, si tratterá di attenuare le punte polemiche e le maggiori asperitá linguistiche, in linea con una tendenza ben evidenziata Reviews 107 (Ib Coriolano Martirano, che tradurrà le Nuvole ed il Pinto. Le considerazioni sul linguaggio délia commedia continuarlo inoltre nel successivo capitolo (Il conuco fra cortc e momio, pp. 155-228), in cui è posta al centro dell'indagine la produzione di alcuni autori come Pietro Aretino o Ruzante che, mentre teorizzano uno svincolamento dalle esperienze direttamente derivanti dai modelli classici con esiti che spaziano dalle spinte anticortigiane del primo all'attenzione al mondo rurale per ¡1 secondo, finiscono per non annullare del tutto il contatto con la tradizionale formula di stampo plautino. Il quarto capitolo sposta poi il focus d'indagine dalla commedia alla tragedia (Antinomie del trágico, pp. 229-273). Anche in questo caso l'A. lavora sulla riscoperta dei classici operata nel Quattrocento e sui tentativi volti a ricostruire le forme délia rappresentazione e délia messa in scena a partiré dalle testimonianze degli antichi corne base per la rinascita di un teatro che si elevasse dalla semplice imitazione per produrre nuove forme di spettacolo. Esemplare, sotto questo profilo, Popera di Sulpizio da Veroli che a Roma in ámbito papale curera in prima persona Pallestimento di alcune tragédie senecane nel 1486. Infine, nel corso delPultimo capitolo (Teatro efede nella se­ conda meta del Cinquecento, pp. 275-318, si affronta la questione del dramma di argomento religioso, di cui PA. offre una ragionevole campionatura seguendo le fortune di due testi il Christos Paschon, dramma bizantino attribuito falsamente...

Pathways of Latinas and Latinos Writing in High School and College might seem a strange fit for a review in Community Literacy Journal.

In Walden, Henry David Thoreau famously confronts nature and selfhood in solitary retreat from society. Readers who confront Thoreau usually do so in solitude as well, but on the Internet they can do so socially, discussing as they read. The authors, who teach on different liberal arts campuses, describe their experiences putting their two classes into conversation in the margins of a new, electronic Walden embedded in an online social network. They find that reading Walden this way usefully exposes tensions between self and other, individual and community, that inform both Thoreau’s narrative and the activity of reading itself, and they argue that such online engagement can be a valuable addition to traditional, face-to-face discussion.

The four titles that Adams discusses include scholarship from women's and gender studies, communication, and media studies, highlighting how the titles generate productive questions using those fields’ intersections with English studies’ own borders and emerging conversations and also allows that productive reimagining of a topic, both through its relationship with rhetoric and through an analytical melding of the familiar with the new. Adams’s review brings into focus how in representations and theories of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, “power articulates to reproductive capacities through rhetorics of risk, responsibility, fitness, and choice” (pp. 275–276) She argues that these four titles provide “numerous examples of how these terms rhetorically shape understandings of our own biology, perceptions of possibility and impossibility related to sexuality, and the ability to recognize how notions of autonomy might be enmeshed within larger contexts and systems beyond our direct control” (276).

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Research problem: For many organizations, high-quality technical information products for global audiences are becoming an increasingly important part of doing business. Component content management attempts to facilitate the creation of such information products. A growing number of technical communication groups are adopting the strategies, standards, and technologies of component content management. This integrative literature review examines the impacts of component content management on the quality of multilingual information products. Research questions: How are the impacts of component content management on multilingual quality conceptualized? How do best practices address the impacts of component content management on multilingual quality? Literature review: Two divides characterize component content management and multilingual quality. The divide between the academy and industry is marked by different levels of interest in quality, particularly its practical aspects. The divide between technical communication and technical translation and localization is defined by the lack of communication between the representatives of each field that leads to a narrower understanding of multilingual quality. Therefore, a comprehensive picture of the impacts of component content management on multilingual quality requires combining the perspectives of scholarly and industry authors in technical communication and technical translation and localization. Activity Theory provides an approach for bridging the divides and creating such a comprehensive picture. Methodology: To provide such a comprehensive picture, I systematically reviewed literature sources on component content management and multilingual quality in scholarly and trade sources in technical communication and technical translation and localization, then classified all selected publications by their relationships to the research questions, themes within them, and characteristics of the source. Results and conclusions: Contradictory conceptual understandings exist on the impacts of component content management on multilingual quality. While some sources praise benefits of component content management, particularly increased consistency and the promise to provide additional adaption possibilities, other sources focus on the challenges of using it, especially a lack of context, text segmentation, and human resources. Although best practices offer some suggestions for overcoming these challenges, the suggestions do not resolve them sufficiently and do not reconcile the contradiction between consistency and adaptation of information products based on the different expectations of audiences around the globe. This study is limited by the fact that it primarily focused on English language publications. Future research needs to be conducted collaboratively by stakeholders in academia and industry and from technical communication and technical translation and localization.

Research problem: Gauging the quality of product reviews through helpfulness votes is problematic for a variety of reasons. We examine potential characteristics of review quality that span review credibility, informativeness, and readability to contribute to better ways of assessing review quality. Research question: Do specific review characteristics improve reviewer users' perceptions of review quality? Literature review: Studies from information systems, electronic marketing and commerce, and technical and professional communication suggest that characteristics of reviews fall into three areas, each with specific characteristics of quality. Findings from these studies suggest the 11 characteristics of review quality within those three areas as potential contributors to review quality. The first area is credibility, a construct consisting (in part) of expertise; we tested these potential specific characteristics of credibility: an assertion of a relevant role, of use of a prior model, of other products in the brand, of a similar product, of having conducted research on the product, and of having tested the product. The second area is informativeness, which is a review's diagnosticity. We tested these potential specific characteristics: a general recommendation, a specific recommendation, a statement about the product's value, and a statement about the extent to which the product met expectations. The third area is readability, which is (in part) comfort of reading, and has this specific characteristic: the use of headings. Methodology: We conducted a quantitative study using a survey distributed though SurveyMonkey Audience, a service that samples from a pool of 30 million respondents. Using control and experimental versions of 11 product reviews, we gauged participants' perceptions of review quality on a five-point scale. We looked for significant differences in participants' perceptions of quality using Pearson's chi square. Results and conclusions: We received 829 responses to include in the analysis. We found the following significant at the p > 0.05 level: a statement about reviewer's prior experience with a similar product (credibility). We found the following significant at the p > 0.01 level: A statement about researching the product, for example, online research (credibility), a general recommendation about the product (informativeness), and formatting with headings (readability). We found the following significant at the p > 0.001 level: a statement about the extent to which the product met expectations (informativeness) and a specific recommendation about the product (informativeness). Using these results, companies can better locate quality reviews; reviewers can increase the quality and, therefore, salience of their reviews; and communication specialists can help reviewers write and revise reviews for improved quality. Future research on review quality could investigate other potential characteristics of credibility, informativeness, and readability.

Research problem: Although organizations have been exerting a significant effort to leverage policies and procedures to improve information security, their impact and effectiveness is under scrutiny as employees' compliance with information security procedures remains problematic. Research questions: (1) What is the role of information security climate (ISC) in cultivating individual's compliance with security policy? (2) Do individual affective and normative states mediate the effect of ISC to increase security policy compliance intention while thwarting employees' security avoidance? Literature review: Drawing upon Griffin and Neal's safety climate model, which states the effect of safety climate on individual safety behaviors that lead to specific performance outcomes, we develop an ISC model to empirically examine the efficacy of security climate in governing employee's policy compliance. The literature suggests that there could be practical reasons for employees not to observe the security policies and procedures. These go beyond the simple lack of use or negligence, and include rationalizing security violation, particularly in light of the fact that they are under pressure to get something done without delays in daily work. To empirically address such employee behavior, we employed the term, security avoidance in this study-an employee's deliberate intention to avoid security policies or procedures in daily work despite the need and opportunity to do so. Methodology: We surveyed IT users in South Korea about individuals' perception about various organizational/managerial information security practices in the work environment. Results and discussion: The results from 581 participants strongly support the fundamental proposition that the information security climate has a significant positive impact on employee's conformity with the security policy. The study also reveals that the security climate nurtures the employee's affective and cognitive states through affective commitment and normative commitment. These, in turn, mediate the influence of security climate on employee policy compliance by facilitating rule adherence among employees while, at the same time, inspiring self-adjusted behaviors to neutralize their deliberate intents of negligence. Overall, the findings support our view that the creation of strong security climate is the adequate alternative to a sanction-based deterrence to employees' security policy compliance, which limits the presence of security avoidance. The implications to theory are the multidimensional nature of ISC construct and its linkage to a systematic view of individual level information security activities. The implications to practice are the ISC's favorable role of discouraging employee's security avoidance while inducing the security policy compliance intention at the same time, given the limit of sanctions.