The Power of Words: Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgements......Page 21
Introduction: Words and their Potency for Priming Audiences......Page 22
I: Preliminaries......Page 28
1 Priming Audience and Practices of Literacy......Page 30
2 Cataloging English Strings for Their Priming Potencies: A Report of a Research Study......Page 46
3 Methods for Selecting and Cataloging Strings......Page 64
4 The Catalog Hierarchy......Page 74
5 The Hierarchy in Relation to Previous Scholarship......Page 78
II: Results......Page 84
6 Cluster 1: Internal Perspectives......Page 86
7 Cluster 2: Relational Perspectives, Part I......Page 126
8 Cluster 2: Relational Perspectives, Part II......Page 166
9 Cluster 3: External Perspectives......Page 210
III: Implications and Applications of Rhetorical Priming Theory......Page 232
10 Using Priming Strings to Analyze Corpora of Texts......Page 234
References......Page 262
Author Index......Page 270
Subject Index......Page 272