Reviews for Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew

The average rating for Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-03-07 00:00:00 Thomas Grillo Read for RSA bookclub, but took notes for me--quite useful argument against just looking at discrete texts. Draws a lot on Marxist thought and KB and some Fisher narrativism, especially in "equiptment for living" and "representative anecdotes." Here are my notes: Exigent--Interventionalist--conscious, discrete, intentional--A speech to the city council Quotitdian--appropriational--conventionalized response--"traffic is bad today" Implicitive--conditional--common sense--driving places should be fast and easy, the govt should impact it Rhetoric--"politics of the possible" (102), "Social function that influences and manages meaning" (xii), is s "dimension" of all life (38) Without discrete text, "one of the tasks of the rhetorician is to become immersed in as many bits as possible that might have been available to a person living through a particular rhetoricial transaction" (98-99). "The critic's task is ultimately to expand the public's repertoire of forms for rhetorical living" (101) Metonomy is the master trope for public discourse--the individual hostage (27) In education, we must abandon "giving speeches" and focus on "showing [students]alternative qays to remake the world" (194) "A concern withe meaning will take priority over a concern with message" (200). ?s top down vs bottom up metonomy in pop culture How has chain watching and clips influenced tv narrative response to crisis (14)

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-20 00:00:00 Betty Clark Read the whole book in one day for an assignment and presentation. Brummett states that rhetoricians need to turn away from analyzing discrete texts (ie speeches, essays, etc.) so much and start looking at popular culture as a source of constructing meaning. Rhetorical critics need to adapt a mosaic model of looking at artifacts. Rather than analyzing the source of the text (ie looking at Lincoln's Gettysburg address), they can shift their attention to the audience and how they construct meaning. He also talks about the reason hostage stories are so popular in the news: because the media metonymize (or reduce) complex stories into sound bites that people can understand, then promptly forget about. A good book, laying out a lot of essential ideas about the role of rhetoric in popular culture.