Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david s kaufer

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  • RHETORIC AND THE ARTS OF DESIGN
    DAVID S. KAUFER / BRIAN S. BUTLER
    The design arts -- from the design of buildings and machines to software and interfaces -- are associated with types of knowledge and performance thought to be structured, modular, and systematic. Such arts have become increasingly prestigious in our technocratic society. Since Aristotle, the art of rhetoric was conceived as a loosely structured "practical" art thought to be li...

    $1,340.00

  • COMMUNICATION AT A DISTANCE
    DAVID S. KAUFER / KATHLEEN M. CARLEY
    This book bridges an important gap between two major approaches to mass communication -- historical and social scientific. To do so, it employs a theory of communication that unifies social, cultural and technological concerns into a systematic and formal framework that is then used to examine the impact of print within the larger socio-cultural context and across multiple hist...

    $1,480.00

  • THE POWER OF WORDS
    DAVID S. KAUFER / SUGURU ISHIZAKI / BRIAN S. BUTLER / JEFF COLLINS
    In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that "the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter." We recognize differences between a politician who is "willful" and one who is "willing" even though the difference does not cross word-stems or parts of speech. We recog...

    $1,420.00

  • DESIGNING INTERACTIVE WORLDS WITH WORDS
    DAVID S. KAUFER / BRIAN S. BUTLER
    No two writing situations are exactly the same and skilled writers, like skilled painters, must develop the know-how to represent the objects of their writing as part of a flexible art. This special art of writing lies hidden between grammar--the well-formedness of sentences--and genre--the capacity of texts to perform culturally holistic communicative functions (e.g., the memo...

    $960.00