About the Book
THE DICTIONARY OF VITAL EXPRESSIONS: HOW TO USE EXPRESSIONS TO PERSUADE
By Douglas C. Kurjian, Ph.D., English
E-mail: dve@netcom.com
www.dictionaryofvitalexpressions.com
Publisher: Academica Press,
LLCTelephone: 650-329-0685
E-mail: academicapress@aol.com
Date of publication: 2006
Price: $54.95
Number of pages: 1,415
ISBN: 1-930901-87-9
Brief description of the book: The DVE shows how to use expressions to persuade, lists the most important metaphors, idioms, phrases, clauses, figures of speech—in a word, expressions, together with model sentences, and contains an Expression Awareness Program and many retrieval systems to find an appropriate expression. The metaphor is the most important rhetorical device. THE DICTIONARY OF VITAL EXPRESSIONS is unique: The Library of Congress Online Catalog lists it as the only rhetorical dictionary of persuasive expressions.
Intended audience: As English is a global language and life is a constant and competitive give-and-take of persuasion, the book fills an important need for speakers, writers, politics, advertising, diplomats, lawyers, libraries, college, high school, junior high school, English as a second language, home libraries, and anyone else wanting to improve his or her English usage—as a reference tool to find the appropriate expression, to differentiate among good, better and best choices in English usage and to help excel in the use of English.
Vision of the book: An ideal society is actively aware of the power of words. From such a society rise ideal leaders, whose humane mix of persuasive logic, emotion, character, and humor benefits and advances that society. Such wise leadership marks rhetoric at its best.
Indexes: Definition Index, Concordance Index, Appendix A, Appendix B, general Index
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