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Pages 441-470 | Published online: 05 Jun 2009
 

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RENAISSANCE RHETORIC. A SHORT‐TITLE CATALOGUE OF WORKS ON RHETORICAL THEORY FROM THE BEGINNING OF PRINTING TO A.D. 1700, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE HOLDINGS OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD. WITH A SELECT BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY WORKS ON RENAISSANCE RHETORIC. Compiled by James J. Murphy; produced with the technical assistance of Kevin P. Roddy. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1981; pp. xx +353. $50.00.

VICO'S SCIENCE OF IMAGINATION. By Donald Phillip Verene. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1981; pp. 9+227. $19.50.

THE ORIGINS OF GREEK THOUGHT. By Jean‐Pierre Vernant. Translated from the French. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1982; pp. 144. $15.00.

THE SOPHISTIC MOVEMENT. By G. B. Kerferd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981; pp. vii + 184. 89.95 paper.

THE PRACTICE OF RHETORICAL CRITICISM. By James R. Andrews. New York: Macmillan, 1983; pp. xiii + 272. $18.95.

ARGUMENTATION AND THE SOCIAL GROUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE. By Charles Arthur Willard. University of Alabama Press, 1983; pp. xi + 321. $25.00

HANDBOOK OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION. Edited by Dan D. Nimmo and Keith R. Sanders. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1981; pp. 732. $45.00.

MEDIATED POLITICAL REALITIES. By Dan Nimmo and James E. Combs. New York: Longman, 1983; pp. xv + 240. $10.95 paper.

POLITICS AND THE NEWS: THE POLITICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE MASS MEDIA. By Edwin R. Black. Toronto: Butterworths, 1982; pp. vi + 272. $11.95 paper.

“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE”: CANDIDATE PRESS RELEASES IN AMERICAN POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS. By Jan Pons Vermeer. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982; pp. xi + 189. $27.50

THE NEW KINGMAKERS. By David Chagall. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981; pp. 400. $14.95.

THE SYMBOLIC DIMENSIONS OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY: DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS. By Robert G. Den‐ton, Jr. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1982; pp. xii + 154. $7.95 paper.

WOMEN AND LANGUAGE IN LITERATURE AND SOCIETY. Edited by Sally McConnell‐Ginet, Ruth Borker, and Nelly Furman. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1980; pp. xv + 352. $13.95 paper.

TELLING IT LIKE IT ISN'T: LANGUAGE MISUSE & MALPRACTICE/WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT. By J. Dan Rothwell. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice‐Hall, 1982; pp. ix + 237. $10.95; paper $5.95.

RECONSTRUCTING REALITY IN THE COURTROOM. By W. Lance Bennett and Martha S. Feldman. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1981; pp. x + 203. $14.50.

POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF PRAGMATICS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE ON PRAGMATICS, UR‐BINO, JULY 8–14, 1979. Edited by Herman Parret, Marina Sbisà, and Jef Verschueren. Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V., 1981; pp. x + 854. $88.00.

GROUP PLANNING AND PROBLEM‐SOLVING METHODS IN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT. Edited by Shirley A. Olsen. New York: Wiley, 1982; pp. xii + 455. $49.95

NEWS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: THE PRESIDENTIAL‐PRESS RELATIONSHIP IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA. By George Juergens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981; pp. x + 338. $25.00.

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