About this book
Introduction
In this important book, Surma combines threads from ethical, political, communications, sociological, feminist and discourse theories to explore the impact of writing in a range of contexts and illustrate the ways in which it can strengthen social connections.
Keywords
bibliography communication concept discourse ethics network organization Orient writing
Bibliographic information
- Book Title Imagining the Cosmopolitan in Public and Professional Writing
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Authors
Anne Surma
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291318
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection Education (R0)
- Hardcover ISBN 978-0-230-22993-8
- Softcover ISBN 978-1-349-31112-5
- eBook ISBN 978-1-137-29131-8
- Edition Number 1
- Number of Pages IX, 179
- Number of Illustrations 0 b/w illustrations, 0 illustrations in colour
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Topics
Sociolinguistics
Discourse Analysis
Communication Studies
Applied Linguistics
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Reviews
'Surma's first book was groundbreaking, but this one exceeds even my highest expectations for a sequel. She deftly weaves critical cosmopolitanism into the warp and woof of writing on a theoretically sound loom. The results include an ethics of care with immediate contemporary relevance conveyed in a crafted prose that is a joy to explore. In line with her plea that 'it is more urgent than ever for writers in the non-fiction domain to draw on some of the insights and approaches of their fiction-writing colleagues', she convincingly shows, with considerable style, how any more equitable cosmopolitan world order will not only be a new word order, but an imaginative re-ordering of words and worlds. This outstanding book simultaneously opens pathways to fairer futures and provides a theoretical frame for transforming the practice and study of writing and rhetoric.' - David McKie, the University of Waikato, New Zealand