Request for Proposals: new book series, Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric

Lexington Books, a division of Roman and Littlefield Publishers, welcomes proposals for a series, Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric. Proposals should emphasize thought-provoking and accessible explorations in the uses of language and media from the middle of the twentieth century to the present.

Subjects for these book-length projects may be varied, including but not limited to the suasory uses of national security rhetoric, political controversies and their uses, rhetorics of municipal leadership, etiquettes of communication in the digital age, news and entertainment as rhetorical forms, and altered patterns of address in computer mediated discourse.

Send queries or requests for proposal guidelines to Gary C. Woodward, Series Editor, at the Department of Communication Studies, The College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Rd. Ewing, New Jersey, 08628-0718, woodward@tcnj.edu  or Alison Pavan, Assistant Acquisitions Editor, Lexington Books, 4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706  apavan@roman.com.