The Rhetoric and Language Studies area focuses on how human symbols affect social and political change. Although rhetoric has been a popular area of study since antiquity, the Department focuses on such contemporary matters as political campaigning, culture and communication, social movement rhetoric, ethics and persuasion, the nature of public argument, discourse and knowledge, the formation of language communities, cognitive linguistics, etc.
Rhetoric and Language Studies embraces a variety of research methodologies, including historiography, archival studies, textual criticism, conversation analysis, content analysis, etc.

1、Foundations of Rhetorical Theory

2、Rhetoric and Popular Culture

3、Rhetoric and Social Style

4、Burke and the Symbolic Form

5、Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

6、Basic Rhetorical Criticism

7、Rhetoric of Film

8、Pragmatism and Rhetoric

9、Rhetoric and Psychoanalysis

10、The Body in Communication

11、Media, Politics and Society

12、Politics, Media and the Individual

13、Gesture

14、Language, Mind and Culture

1、修辭理論基礎(chǔ)

2、修辭與流行文化

3、修辭與社交風(fēng)格

4、Burke和符號形式

5、當(dāng)代修辭學(xué)理論

6、基本的修辭批評

7、電影修辭

8、實用主義和修辭

9、修辭和心理分析

10、交流中的肢體語言

11、媒體，政治和社會

12、政治，媒體和個人

13、手勢

14、語言，思維和文化