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Incorporating ability: rhetorics of early modern English business and administrative communication

Lupo, Marian
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1149093694

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2006, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, English.
This dissertation analyzes business and administrative communication to demonstrate how composing ability is rhetorically figured and incorporated. Using rhetorical theory, this dissertation studies the rhetorical tropes present in documents from Early Modern English business and administrative communication. It considers how these tropes are central to the hegemonic compositional techniques, which is believed to be the ability to compose. Through textual analysis of early modern business documents, this dissertation shows how these tropes enable the production of business and administrative communication. Of the variety of business and administrative communication produced during the early modern period, this dissertation specifically considers the letters of merchants as a generic form of business and administrative communication. Studying the generic situation of these merchant letters demonstrates how the hegemonic tropes become central to composing ability. The generic situation, substance, style, and situation, establish the contours of these tropes. Thus, this dissertation analyzes the fused triad of substance, style and situation in Early Modern English business and administrative communication to locate both genre and to begin the process of deciphering an act isolated in time that may also represent an undercurrent of history central to the rhetorics of incorporating ability.
Brenda Brueggemann (Advisor)
171 p.
Language, Rhetoric and Composition
Business and Administrative Communication; History and Theory of Rhetoric; Disability Studies

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  • Lupo, M. (2006). Incorporating ability: rhetorics of early modern English business and administrative communication [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1149093694

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lupo, Marian. Incorporating ability: rhetorics of early modern English business and administrative communication. 2006. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1149093694.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lupo, Marian. "Incorporating ability: rhetorics of early modern English business and administrative communication." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1149093694

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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