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Pages 347-400 | Published online: 05 Jun 2009
 

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HUMAN COMMUNICATION AS NARRATION: TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF REASON, VALUE, AND ACTION. By Walter R. Fisher. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987; pp. xiv + 201. $24.95.

SCIENCE, LANGUAGE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION. By Morton Kaplan. New York: Paragon House Publishing, 1984; pp. 1 + 394. $27.95.

RESEARCH INTERVIEWING. By Elliot G. Mishler. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 189. $20.00.

POWER IN THE ORGANISATION: THE DISCOURSE OF POWER IN MANAGERIAL PRAXIS. By Philippe Daudi. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986; pp. vii + 338. $49.95.

HOW INSTITUTIONS THINK. By Mary Douglas. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 146. $19.95; paper $10.95.

A NEW DIVERSITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTHERN RHETORIC. Edited by Calvin M. Logue and Howard Dorgan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987; pp. vii + 268. $32.50.

TO REDEEM THE SOUL OF AMERICA: THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE AND MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. By Adam Fairclough. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1987; pp. x + 504. $35.00; paper $17.95.

GUNNAR MYRDAL AND BLACK‐WHITE RELATIONS: THE USE AND ABUSE OF AN AMERICAN DILEMMA, 1944–1969. By David W. Southern. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987; pp. xviii + 341. $35.00.

THINKING IN TIME: THE USES OF HISTORY FOR DECISION MAKERS. By Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May. New York: The Free Press, 1986; pp. xxii + 329. $19.95.

INFLUENCE: SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. By Robert B. Cialdini. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1985; pp. 264. $12.65.

ACTUAL MINDS, POSSIBLE WORLDS. By Jerome Bruner. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 201. $15.00.

COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF CALCULATED SPEECH: CONTROLLING UNDERSTANDINGS IN CONVERSATION AND PERSUASION. By Robert E. Sanders. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986; pp. xii + 273. $39.50; paper $14.95.

COMMUNICATION: STRATEGIC ACTION IN CONTEXT. By Beth Haslett. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1987; pp. xiii + 287. $29.95.

CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON RHETORIC. By Sonja K. Foss, Karen A. Foss, and Robert Trapp. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1985; pp. v + 330. Paper $12.95.

LINGUISTIC CRITICISM. By Roger Fowler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986; pp. 190. $24.95; paper $9.95.

WORDS AND THE WORD: LANGUAGE, POETICS AND BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION. By Stephen Prickett. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986; pp. ix + 305. $39.00.

STYLE AS ARGUMENT: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NONFICTION. By Chris Anderson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987; pp. x + 190. $19.95; paper $10.95.

IMAGE AS INSIGHT: VISUAL UNDERSTANDING IN WESTERN CHRISTIANITY AND SECULAR CULTURE. By Margaret R. Miles. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985; pp. xiii + 200. $27.95.

THE MUSE LEARNS TO WRITE: REFLECTIONS ON ORALITY AND LITERACY FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT. By Eric A. Havelock. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986; pp. 144. $16.00.

WOMEN, MEN AND LANGUAGE. By Jennifer Coates. London and New York: Longman, 1986; pp. 178. paper $10.95.

NO IVORY TOWER: MC CARTHYISM AND THE UNIVERSITIES. By Ellen W. Schrecker. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986; pp. ix + 437. $20.95.

THE MAIN SOURCE: LEARNING FROM TELEVISION NEWS. By John P. Robinson and Mark R. Levy. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1986; pp. 272. $28.00; paper $14.00.

POLITICAL PERSUASION IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS. Edited by L. Patrick Devlin. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1987; pp. 218. $29.95.

RONALD REAGAN, THE MOVIE AND OTHER EPISODES IN POLITICAL DEMONOLOGY. By Michael Rogin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987; pp. vii + 366. $25.00.

WAR AS ADVERTISED: THE FOUR MINUTE MEN AND AMERICA'S CRUSADE 1917–1918. By Alfred E. Cornebise. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1984; pp. xi + 181. Paper $15.00.

PROPAGANDA, PERSUASION, AND POLEMIC. Edited by Jeremy Hawthorne. London: Edward Arnold Ltd., 1987; pp. vii + 176.

THE SOUTHERN ESSAYS OF RICHARD M. WEAVER. Edited by George M. Curtis, III and James J. Thompson, Jr. Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1987. pp. xxii + 268; $10.00; paper $4.50.

EDMUND BURKE AND THE PRACTICE OF POLITICAL WRITING. By Christopher Reid. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986; pp. xiii + 238. $27.50.

INTERPRETATION AND SOCIAL CRITICISM. By Michael Walzer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987; pp. viii + 96. $12.50.

CRITICISM AND TRUTH. By Roland Barthes. Translated and Edited by Katrine Pilcher Keuneman. Introduction by Philip Thody. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987; pp. 7–119. $25.00; paper $10.95.

WHAT STORIES ARE: NARRATIVE THEORY AND INTERPRETATION. By Thomas M. Leitch. University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986; pp. x + 222. $22.95.

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