A partial bibliography for composition and rhetoric
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Austin, John L. "Truth." An Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry.
Austin, John L. How to Do Things With Words. Oxford UP, 1962.
Bamberg, Betty. "Composition Instruction Does Make a Difference: A Comparison of the High School Preparation of College Freshmen in Regular and Remedial English Classes." Research in the Teaching of English 12 (1978): 47-59.
Barton, Ellen L., and Gail Stygall, eds. Discourse Studies in Composition. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
Barton, Ellen L. "Inductive Discourse Analysis: Discovering Rich Features." Discourse Studies in Composition. Eds. Ellen L. Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
Bazerman, Charles, and Paul A. Prior, eds. What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003.
Berkenkotter, Carol. "The Legacy of Positivism in Empirical Composition Research." Journal of Advanced Composition 9.1-2 (1989): 97-111.
Bernhardt, Stephen A., Patricia G. Wojahn, and Penny R. Edwards. "Teaching College Composition with Computers: A Timed Observation Study." Written Communication 6 (1989): 342-374.
Berthoff, Ann E. The Mysterious Barricades: Language and its Limits. Buffalo, NY: U Toronto P, 1999.
Blalock, Ann Blonar, and Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. Introduction to Social Research. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.
Bloor, David. Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge. NY: Columbia UP, 1983.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Language and Symbolic Power. Ed. John B. Thompson. Trans. Gino Raymond and Matthew Adamson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1993.
Brenner, William H. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. SUNY P.
Burbules, Nicholas C., and Michael Peters. "Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951." Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present. Ed. Joy A. Palmer. New York: Routledge, 2001. 15-22.
Burkhardt, Armin, ed. Speech Acts, Meaning and Intentions: Critical Approaches to the Philosophy of John R. Searle. 1990.
Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Cavell, Stanley. Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994.
Chafe, Wallace. "Writing in the Perspective of Speaking." Discourse Studies in Composition. Eds. Ellen L. Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
Charney, Davida. "Evaluating Professional Discourse: How Well Does It Work for Real Readers? Discourse Studies in Composition. Eds. Ellen L. Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
Chimombo, Moira, and Robert L. Roseberry. The Power of Discourse: An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997.
Clifford, John. "The Subject in Discourse." Harkin, Patricia, and John Schilb, eds. Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age. New York: MLA, 1991.
Cole, Peter, and Jerry Morgan, eds. Speech Acts. New York: Academic P, 1975.
Cooper, Charles R. "Procedures for Describing Written Texts." Research on Writing: Principles and Methods. Ed. Peter Mosenthal, et al. New York: Longman, 1983. 287-313.
Cooper, David E. Presupposition. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1974.
Coulthard, Malcolm. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis.
Crusius, Timothy W. Discourse: A Critique and Synthesis of Major Theories. MLA, 1989.
D'Angelo, Frank.
Daly, John A., and Michael D. Miller. "Further Studies on Writing Apprehension: SAT Scores, Success Expectations, Willingness to Take Advanced Courses and Sex Differences." Research in the Teaching of English 9 (1975): 250-6.
Daly, John A., and Michael D. Miller. "The Empirical Development of an Instrument to Measure Writing Apprehension." Research in the Teaching of English 9 (1975): 242-9.
Dasenbrock, Reed Way. "J.L. Austin and the Articulation of a New Rhetoric." College Composition and Communication 38 (1987): 291-305.
Derrida, Jacques. "LIMITED INC abc. . ." Glyph 2. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1977.
Diamond, Cora. The Realistic Sjpriti: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1991.
Dijk, Teun A. van. Communicating Racism: Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk. Newbury Park CA: Sage, 1987.
Dijk, Teun A. van. Studies in the Pragmatics of Discourse. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1981.
Dijk, Teun Van. Handbook for Discourse Analysis. 1985.
Dijk, Teun Van. Macro-Structures. Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum, 1979.
Durst, Russell, Marjorie Roemer, and Lucille M. Schultz. "Portfolio Negotiations: Acts in Speech." New Directions in Portfolio Assessment: Reflective Practice, Critical Theory, and Large-Scale Scoring. Ed. Laurel Black, et al. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994. 286-300.
Eagleton, Terry. "Wittgenstein's Friends." New Left Review 135 (1982): 64-90.
Edwards, Jane A., and Martin D. Lampert, eds. Talking Data: Transcription and Coding in Discourse Research. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993.
Elbow, Peter. "Reflections on Academic Discourse: How It Relates to Freshmen and Colleagues." College English 53.2 (Feburary 1991): 135-55.
Emig, Janet. "Inquiry Paradigms and Writing." College Composition and Communication 33 (1982): 64-75.
Ericsson, K.A., et al. "Verbal Reports as Data." Psychological Review 87 (1980): 215-51.
Fahnestock, Jeanne, and Marie Secor. "Rhetorical Analysis." Discourse Studies in Composition. Eds. Ellen L. Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
Fairclough, Norman. Critical Language Awareness. London: Longman, 1992.
Fairclough, Norman. Discourse and Social Change. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Fairclough, Norman. Language and Power. 1989.
Fairclough, Norman. Media Discourse. London: Edward Arnold, 1995.
Fairclough, Norman. "Multiliteracies and Language: Orders of Discourse and Intertextuality." Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. Ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis. New York: Routledge, 2000. 162-181.
Felman, Shoshana. The Literary Speech Act: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages. Trans. Catherine Porter. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1983.
Fink, Arlene, and Jacqueline Kosecoff. How to Conduct Surveys: A Step-by-Step Guide. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1985.
Fish, Stanley E. Is There a Text in this Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.
Fredericksen, Carl H. "Cognitive Models and Discourse Analysis." In Studying Writing: Linguistic Approaches. Ed. Charles R. Cooper and Sidney Greenbaum. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1986, 227-67. (on file)
Freed, Richard C., et al. "Discourse Communities, Sacred Texts, and Institutional Norms." College Composition and Communication 38 (1987): 154-65.
Fulkerson, Richard P. "Kinneavy on Referential and Persuasive Discourse: A Critique." College Composition and Communication 35 (1984): 43-56.
Fuller, Mary J., and Jean Ann Lutz. "Constructing Authority: Student Responses and Classroom Discourse." Discourse Studies in Composition. Eds. Ellen L. Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
Gee, James Paul. Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses. 2nd ed. Bristol, PA: Taylor and Francis, 1996.
Genova. Judith. Wittgenstein: A Way of Seeing. New York: Routledge, 1995.
George, A. L. Quantiative and Qualitative Approaches to Content Analysis. NY: Rand, 1959.
Glock, Hans-Johann. Wittgenstein: A Critical Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001.
Golumbia, David. "Quine's Ambivalence." Cultural Critique 38 (Winter 1997).
Gray, Bennison. The Grammatical Foundations of Rhetoric: Discourse Analysis. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1977. TCU P302 .G68
Grice, H. Paul. "Logic and Conversation." Speech Acts. Ed. Peter Cole and Jerry Morgan. New York: Academic P, 1975. 41-78.
Grimes, Joseph E. The Thread of Discourse. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1984.
Harris, Roy. Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein: How to Play Games with Words. New York: Routledge, 1991. P106.H3335 1988
Haswell, Richard H. "Change in Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Writing Performance: Quantified Findings." ERIC: 1986. ED 269 780.
Hayles, N. Katherine. "The Materiality of Informatics." Configurations 1.1 (1993): 147-70.
Herman, David. "Sciences of the Text." Postmodern Culture 11.3 (May 2001). <http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU:80/pmc/current.issue/11.3herman.html>
Heringer, Hans J. Practical Semantics: A Study in the Rules of Speech and Action. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1978.
Heydrich, Wolfgang, et al., eds. Connexity and Coherence: Analysis of Text and Discourse. 1989.
Hillocks, George, Jr. "Criticisms of Experimental Studies." Research on Written Composition: New Directions for Teaching. Urbana: NCTE, 1986. 95-98.
Hodges, Michael P. Transcendence and Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1990.
Holdstein, Deborah H., and Tim Redman. "Empirical Research in Word-Processing: Expectations vs. Experience." Computers in Composition 3 (1985): 43-54.
Huckin, Thomas. "Content Analysis: What Texts Talk About." What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices. Ed. Charles Bazerman and Paul A. Prior. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003. 13-32.
Huckin, Thomas. "Critical Discourse Analysis and the Discourse of Condescension." Discourse Studies in Composition. Eds. Ellen L. Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
Johnstone, Barbara. Discourse Analysis. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001.
Jolliffe, David A. "Finding Yourself in the Text: Identity Formation in the Discourse of Workplace Documents." Changing Work, Changing Workers: Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skills. Ed. Glynda Hull. Albany NY: SUNY P, 1997. 335-349.
Jolliffe, David. "Finding Yourself in the Text: The Role of Identity Formation in Learning to Read in Academic Disciplines." Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. 22 October 2002. [file: Literacy]
Kinneavy, James. A Theory of Discourse.
Klaus, C.H. "Research on Writing Courses: A Cautionary Essay." Freshman English News 11 (Spring 1982): 1-4, 13-14.
Kress, Gunter. "Critical Discourse Analysis." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 11 (1990): 84-99.
Kress, Gunter. "Representational Resources and the Production of Subjectivity: Questions for the Theoretical Development of Critical Discourse Analysis in a Multicultural Society." Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis. Ed. Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Malcom Coulthard. New York: Routledge, 1996. 15-31.
Kuhn, Thomas S. "Mathematical Versus Experimental Traditions in the Development of Physical Science." In Post-Analytic Philosophy. Ed. John Rajchman and Cornel West. New York: Columbia UP, 1985, 166-200.
Kuriloff, Peshe C. "What Discourses Have in Common: Teaching the Transaction between Writer and Reader." College Composition and Communication 47.4 (December 1996): 485-501.
Laclau, Ernesto.
Lauer, Janice M., and J. William Asher. Composition Research: Empirical Designs. New York: Oxford UP, 1988.
Lemoine, Roy E. The Anagogic Theory of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus." New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1975.
Lewis, Cynthia. "'What's Discourse Got to Do with It?' A Meditation on Critical Discourse Analysis in Literacy Research." Research in the Teaching of English 40.3 (Feb. 2006).
Liestøl, Gunnar. "Wittgenstein, Genette, and the Reader's Narrative in Hypertext." Hyper/Text/Theory. Ed. George P. Landow. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994. 87-120.
Lincoln, Bruce. Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification. NY: Oxford UP, 1989.
Luke, Allan. "The Material Effects of the Word: Apologies, 'Stolen Children' and Public Discourse." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 18 (1997): 343-368.
Luntley, Michael. Wittgenstein: Meaning and the Possibility of Judgment. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.
Matsuhashi, Ann, et al. "Cognitive Questions from Discourse Analysis: A Review and a Study." Written Communication 1 (1984): 307-40.
Mattot, Glenn. "Linear Composing, Discourse Analysis, and the Outline." Journal of Advanced Composition 4 (1983): 33-45.
MacDonald, Susan Peck. "Analysis of Academic Discourse(s)." Discourse Studies in Composition. Eds. Ellen L. Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
Macdonell, Diane. Theories of Discourse: An Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
McDonough, Richard M. The Argument of the "Tractatus": Its Relevance to Contemporary Theories of Logic, Language, Mind, and Philosophical Truth. SUNY P.
Meyer, Charles F. "Functional Grammar and Discourse Studies." Discourse Studies in Composition. Eds. Ellen L. Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
Mills, Sara. Discourse. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Mitchell-Kernan, Claudia. "Signifying and Marking: Two Afro-American Speech Acts." In Directions in Sociolinguistics. Ed. J. Gumperz and D. Hymes. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972.
Moffett, James.
Mouffe, Chantal.
Nelson, Nancy. "The Reading-Writing Nexus in Discourse Research." Handbook of Research on Writing. Ed. Charles Bazerman. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2008. 435-450.
Norris, Christopher. "Home Thoughts from Abroad: Derrida, Austin, and the Oxford Connection." Philosophy and Literature 10 (1986): 1-25.
Norusis, Marija J. The SPSS Guide to Data Analysis. Chicago: SPSS, 1987.
Odell, Lee. "Teachers of Composition and Needed Research in Discourse Theory." College Composition and Communication 30 (1979): 39.
Ohmann, Richard. "Instrumental Style: Notes on the Theory of Speech as Action." Current Trends in Stylistics. Ed. Braj B. Kachru and F.W. Stahlke. Edmonton: Linguistic Research, 1972. 115-41.
Owen, Marion. Apologies and Remedial Interchanges: A Study of Language Use in Social Interaction. New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1983.
Pennycook, Alastair. Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001.
Pennycook, Alastair. The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language. London: Longman, 1994.
Perloff, Marjorie. Wittsenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary. U Chicago P, 1996.
Petrey, Sandy. "Castration, Speech Acts, and the Realist Difference: S/Z versus Sarrasine. PMLA 102 (1987): 153-165.
Pfau, Thomas. "The Pragmatics of Genre: Moral Theory and Lyric Authorship in Hegel and Wordsworth." The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature. Ed. Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi. Durham: Duke UP, 1994. 133-58.
Phelps, Louise Wetherbee. Composition as a Human Science: Contributions to the Self-Understanding of a Discipline. New York: Oxford UP, 1988.
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Pianko, Sharon. "A Description of the Composing Processes of College Freshman Writers." Research in the Teaching of English 13 (1979): 5-22.
Powell, Pegeen Reichert. "Critical Discourse Analysis and Composition Studies: A Study of Presidential Discourse and Campus Discord." College Composition and Communication 55.3 (February 2004): 439-469.
Pratt, Mary Louise. "Ideology and Speech-Act Theory." Poetics Today 7 (1986): 59-72. Rpt. The Stylistics Reader: From Roman Jacobson to the Present. Ed. Jean Jacques Weber. New York: St. Martin's, 1996. 181-95.
Pratt, Mary Louise. Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977.
Price, Jeffrey T. Language and Being in Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations." New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1973.
Putnam, Hilary. "After Empiricism." Post-Analytic Philosophy. Ed. John Rajchman and Cornel West. New York: Columbia UP, 1985, 20-30.
Quine, W.V.O. Word and Object. 1960.
Reed, E.S. "The Ecological Approach to Language Development: A Radical Solution to Chomsky's and Quine's Problems." Language and Communication 15.1 (January 1995): 1-30.
Roberts, Paul. "Pronomial 'This': A Quantitative Analysis." American Speech 27 (1952): 171-78.
Roth, Michael S. "Foucault on Discourse and History: A Style of Delegitimation." The Philosophy of Discourse. Ed. Chip Sills and George H. Jensen. Vol. 2. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992. 102-124.
Salkie, Raphael. Text and Discourse Analysis. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Scheuer, Jann. "Habitus as the Principle for Social Practice: A Proposal for Critical Discourse Analysis." Language in Society 32.2 (April 2003): 143-175.
Schiffrin, Deborah. Approaches to Discourse: Language as Social Interaction. Coulmas, Florian, ed. The Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1993.
Schiffrin, Deborah, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi E. Hamilton, eds. The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001.
Schuessler, Brian F., Anne Ruggles Gere, and Robert D. Abbott. "The Development of Scales Measuring Teacher Attitudes Toward Instruction in Written Composition: A Preliminary Investigation." Research in the Teaching of English 15.1 (February 1981): 55-63. (on file)
Scollon, Ronald, and Suzanne Wong Scollon. Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1994.
Searle, John R. Rationality in Action. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2003.
Searle, John R. The Rediscovery of the Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1992.
Searle, John R. "Reiterating the Differences: A Reply to Derrida." Glyph. Ed. Samuel Weber and Henry Sussman. The Johns Hopkins UP, 1977: 198-208.
Searle, John. Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge UP, 1969.
Shaver, James P. "Reliability and Validity of Measures of Attitudes Toward Writing and Toward Writing with the Computer." Written Communication 6 (1989): 375-392.
Short, Mick. "Discourse Analysis and the Analysis of Drama." Applied Linguistics 2 (1981): 180-202. Rpt. The Stylistics Reader: From Roman Jacobson to the Present. Ed. Jean Jacques Weber. New York: St. Martin's, 1996. 158-80.
Sills, Chip, intro. The Philosophy of Discourse: The Rhetorical Turn in Twentieth-Century Thought. Ed. Chip Sills and George H. Jensen. Vol. I. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992. 1-12.
Sills, Chip, and George H. Jensen, eds. The Philosophy of Discourse: The Rhetorical Turn in Twentieth-Century Thought. 2 vols. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992.
Silverman, David, and Brian Torode. The Material Word: Some Theories of Language and Its Limits. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Chapter 3, "Wittgenstein's Two Languages." Chapter 9, "What Austin Does with Words."
Smagorinsky, Peter, ed. Speaking about Writing: Reflections on Research Methodology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994.
Staten, Henry. Wittgenstein and Derrida. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1984. B3376.W564 S87 1984
Stygall, Gail. "Discourse Studies." Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum. Ed. Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and Robert A. Schwegler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2000. 66-70.
Stygall, Gail. "Narrative Discourse Analysis and Legal Texts." Discourse Studies in Composition. Eds. Ellen L. Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
Suter, Ronald. Interpreting Wittgenstein: A Cloud of Philosophy, a Drop of Grammar. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1990.
Swales, John M., and Margaret A. Luebs. "Genre Analysis and the Advanced Second Language Writer." Discourse Studies in Composition. Eds. Ellen L. Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
Tannen, Deborah, and Robin Lakoff. "Conversational Strategy and Metastrategy in a Pragmatic Theory: The Example of Scenes from a Marriage. Gender and Discourse. By Deborah Tannen. New York: Oxford UP, 1994. 137-74.
Thomas, Douglas. "It's Not What You Say, It's That You Say It: Speech, Performance, and Sense in Austin and Deleuze." Philosophy and Rhetoric 29.4 (1996): 359-68.
Todd, Alexandra D., et al, eds. Gender and Discourse: The Power of Talk. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1988.
Toner, Lisa M. "Pedagogical Ethics and a Cultural Studies Composition Course: Implications of Discourse Ethics." The Ethics of Writing Instruction: Issues in Theory and Practice. Ed. Michael A. Pemberton. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 2000. 3-22.
Tsohatzidis, S.L., ed. Foundations of Speech Act Theory. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Vande Kopple, William J. "Metadiscourse, Discourse, and Issues in Composition and Rhetoric." Discourse Studies in Composition. Eds. Ellen L. Barton and Gail Stygall. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2002.
Watts, Richard, and Peter Trudgill, eds. Alternative Histories of English. Routledge, 2002.
Williams, Joseph. "Cognition and Writing in Discourse Communities." Univ. of Chicago institute, "Hidden Meanings: Critical Thinking and Acculturation." Chicago, 17 Nov. 1986.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief. Ed. Cyril Barrett. Berkeley: U California P, 1972.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. 1921. Trans. D.F. Pears and B.F. McGuinness. Intro. Bertrand Russell. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961.
Yarbrough, Stephen R. After Rhetoric: The Study of Discourse Beyond Language and Culture. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999.
Zhu, Wei. "Interaction and Feedback in Mixed Peer Response Groups." Journal of Second Language Writing 10.4 (2001): 251-76. Rpt. Second-Language Writing in the Composition Classroom. Ed. Paul Kei Matsuda, Michelle Cox, Jay Jordan, and Christina Ortmeier-Hooper. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006. 186-210.