Dialectical Rhetoric

Author : Bruce McComiskey
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 296 pages
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Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781457195372

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Dialectical Rhetoric by Bruce McComiskey Pdf

In Dialectical Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey argues that the historical conflict between rhetoric and dialectic can be overcome in ways useful to both composition theory and the composition classroom. Historically, dialectic has taken two forms in relation to rhetoric. First, it has been the logical development of linear propositions leading to necessary conclusions, a one-dimensional form that was the counterpart of rhetorics in which philosophical, metaphysical, and scientific truths were conveyed with as little cognitive interference from language as possible. Second, dialectic has been the topical development of opposed arguments on controversial issues and the judgment of their relative strengths and weaknesses, usually in political and legal contexts, a two-dimensional form that was the counterpart of rhetorics in which verbal battles over competing probabilities in public institutions revealed distinct winners and losers. The discipline of writing studies is on the brink of developing a new relationship between dialectic and rhetoric, one in which dialectics and rhetorics mediate and negotiate different arguments and orientations that are engaged in any rhetorical situation. This new relationship consists of a three-dimensional hybrid art called “dialectical rhetoric,” whose method is based on five topoi: deconstruction, dialogue, identification, critique, and juxtaposition. Three-dimensional dialectical rhetorics function effectively in a wide variety of discursive contexts, including digital environments, since they can invoke contrasts in stagnant contexts and promote associations in chaotic contexts. Dialectical Rhetoric focuses more attention on three-dimensional rhetorics from the rhetoric and composition community.

Author : F.H. van Eemeren,Peter Houtlosser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401599481

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Dialectic and Rhetoric by F.H. van Eemeren,Peter Houtlosser Pdf

This volume discusses two distinct perspectives on the analysis of argumentative discourse: the dialectical and the rhetorical perspective. It intends to open a thorough discussion of the two approaches, their commonalities and differences, and the ways in which, in some combination or other, they can be used to further the development of sound analytic tools for dealing with argumentation.

Author : Marta Spranzi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218896

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The Art of Dialectic Between Dialogue and Rhetoric by Marta Spranzi Pdf

This book reconstructs the tradition of dialectic from Aristotle's "Topics," its founding text, up to its "renaissance" in 16th century Italy, and focuses on the role of dialectic in the production of knowledge. Aristotle defines dialectic as a structured exchange of questions and answers and thus links it to dialogue and disputation, while Cicero develops a mildly skeptical version of dialectic, identifies it with reasoning "in utramque partem" and connects it closely to rhetoric. These two interpretations constitute the backbone of the living tradition of dialectic and are variously developed in the Renaissance against the Medieval background. The book scrutinizes three separate contexts in which these developments occur: Rudolph Agricola's attempt to develop a new dialectic in close connection with rhetoric, Agostino Nifo's thoroughly Aristotelian approach and its use of the newly translated commentaries of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes, and Carlo Sigonio's literary theory of the dialogue form, which is centered around Aristotle's "Topics." Today, Aristotelian dialectic enjoys a new life within argumentation theory: the final chapter of the book briefly revisits these contemporary developments and draws some general epistemological conclusions linking the tradition of dialectic to a fallibilist view of knowledge.

Author : Bruce Mccomiskey
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780874219821

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Dialectical Rhetoric by Bruce Mccomiskey Pdf

In Dialectical Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey argues that the historical conflict between rhetoric and dialectic can be overcome in ways useful to both composition theory and the composition classroom. Historically, dialectic has taken two forms in relation to rhetoric. First, it has been the logical development of linear propositions leading to necessary conclusions, a one-dimensional form that was the counterpart of rhetorics in which philosophical, metaphysical, and scientific truths were conveyed with as little cognitive interference from language as possible. Second, dialectic has been the topical development of opposed arguments on controversial issues and the judgment of their relative strengths and weaknesses, usually in political and legal contexts, a two-dimensional form that was the counterpart of rhetorics in which verbal battles over competing probabilities in public institutions revealed distinct winners and losers. The discipline of writing studies is on the brink of developing a new relationship between dialectic and rhetoric, one in which dialectics and rhetorics mediate and negotiate different arguments and orientations that are engaged in any rhetorical situation. This new relationship consists of a three-dimensional hybrid art called “dialectical rhetoric,” whose method is based on five topoi: deconstruction, dialogue, identification, critique, and juxtaposition. Three-dimensional dialectical rhetorics function effectively in a wide variety of discursive contexts, including digital environments, since they can invoke contrasts in stagnant contexts and promote associations in chaotic contexts. Dialectical Rhetoric focuses more attention on three-dimensional rhetorics from the rhetoric and composition community.

Author : Gregory Clark
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809315796

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Dialogue, Dialectic and Conversation by Gregory Clark Pdf

This book articulates an ethics for reading that places primary responsibility for the social influences of a text on the response of its readers. We write and read as participants in a process through which we negotiate with others whom we must live or work with and with whom we share values, beliefs, and actions. Clark draws on current literary theory, rhetoric, philosophy, communication theory, and composition studies as he builds on this argument. Because reading and writing are public actions that address and direct matters of shared belief, values, and action, reading and writing should be taught as public discourse. We should teach not writing or reading so much as the larger practice of public discourse—a discourse that sustains the many important communities of which students are and will be active members.

Author : Marta Spranzi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286840

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The Art of Dialectic between Dialogue and Rhetoric by Marta Spranzi Pdf

This book reconstructs the tradition of dialectic from Aristotle's Topics, its founding text, up to its "renaissance" in 16th century Italy, and focuses on the role of dialectic in the production of knowledge. Aristotle defines dialectic as a structured exchange of questions and answers and thus links it to dialogue and disputation, while Cicero develops a mildly skeptical version of dialectic, identifies it with reasoning in utramque partem and connects it closely to rhetoric. These two interpretations constitute the backbone of the living tradition of dialectic and are variously developed in the Renaissance against the Medieval background. The book scrutinizes three separate contexts in which these developments occur: Rudolph Agricola's attempt to develop a new dialectic in close connection with rhetoric, Agostino Nifo's thoroughly Aristotelian approach and its use of the newly translated commentaries of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes, and Carlo Sigonio's literary theory of the dialogue form, which is centered around Aristotle's Topics. Today, Aristotelian dialectic enjoys a new life within argumentation theory: the final chapter of the book briefly revisits these contemporary developments and draws some general epistemological conclusions linking the tradition of dialectic to a fallibilist view of knowledge.

Author : Theresa Enos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135816131

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Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition by Theresa Enos Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : James A Rembret,Alan Sears
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1988-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349190720

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Swift And The Dialectical Tradition by James A Rembret,Alan Sears Pdf

Author : Jakob Leth Fink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139789288

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The Development of Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle by Jakob Leth Fink Pdf

The period from Plato's birth to Aristotle's death (427–322 BC) is one of the most influential and formative in the history of Western philosophy. The developments of logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and science in this period have been investigated, controversies have arisen and many new theories have been produced. But this is the first book to give detailed scholarly attention to the development of dialectic during this decisive period. It includes chapters on topics such as: dialectic as interpersonal debate between a questioner and a respondent; dialectic and the dialogue form; dialectical methodology; the dialectical context of certain forms of arguments; the role of the respondent in guaranteeing good argument; dialectic and presentation of knowledge; the interrelations between written dialogues and spoken dialectic; and definition, induction and refutation from Plato to Aristotle. The book contributes to the history of philosophy and also to the contemporary debate about what philosophy is.

Author : Piotr de Bończa Bukowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110745474

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Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Pathways of Translation by Piotr de Bończa Bukowski Pdf

This interdisciplinary study introduces readers to Friedrich Schleiermacher’s diverse pathways of reflection and creative practice that are related to the field of translation. By drawing attention to Schleiermacher’s various writings on a range of subjects (including philology, criticism, hermeneutics, dialectics, rhetoric and religion), the author makes it clear that the frequently cited lecture Über die verschiedenen Methoden des Übersetzens (On the Different Methods of Translating) represents but a fraction of Schleiermacher’s contributions to modern-day insights into translation. The analysis of Schleiermacher’s various pathways of reflection on translation presented in this book leads to the conclusion that translation is part of the essence of the world, as it is a fundamental tool of our cognition and a foundation of our existence. In Schleiermacher’s works, transfer, translation, mediation, and communication underpin our very existence in the world and our self-awareness. At the same time, they represent fundamental categories for a project that focuses on the consolidation and assimilation – through translation – of that which is foreign, different, diverse.

Author : Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110566420

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Aristotle - Contemporary Perspectives on his Thought by Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou Pdf

This collection of essays by leading Aristotle scholars worldwide covers a wide range of topics on Aristotle's work from metaphysics, politics, ethics, bioethics, rhetoric, dialectic, aesthetics, history to physics, psychology, biology, medicine, technology. The thorough exploration of the issues investigated deepens our knowledge of the most fundamental concepts, which are crucial for an overall understanding of Aristotle’s work. Moreover, the contributors explore the relevance of Aristotle’s ideas to contemporary issues and provide new perspectives on the study of Aristotle’s thought. The essays of the volume were presented at the plenary sessions of the World Congress "Aristotle 2400 Years," organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Aristotle Studies of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, on May 23-28 2016, in commemoration of the 2400th anniversary of Aristotle’s birth. The aim of the congress was to advance scholarship on all aspects of Aristotle’s work, both in philosophy and in the fundamental disciplines of science. The impressive number of 250 papers from 40 countries highlighted the fact that Aristotle’s work continues to exercise an influence on our intellectual lives on a global scale.

Author : Christopher W. Tindale
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781412904001

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Rhetorical Argumentation by Christopher W. Tindale Pdf

The study of argumentation has primarily focused on logical and dialectical approaches, with minimal attention given to the rhetorical facets of argument. Rhetorical Argumentation: Principles of Theory and Practice approaches argumentation from a rhetorical point of view and demonstrates how logical and dialectical considerations depend on the rhetorical features of the argumentative situation. Throughout this text, author Christopher W. Tindale identifies how argumentation as a communicative practice can best be understood by its rhetorical features.

Author : F. H. Van Eemeren,Peter Houtlosser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401599491

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Dialectic and Rhetoric by F. H. Van Eemeren,Peter Houtlosser Pdf

Author : John D. O'Banion
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271040707

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Reorienting Rhetoric by John D. O'Banion Pdf

Author : P. Christopher Smith
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810116085

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The Hermeneutics of Original Argument by P. Christopher Smith Pdf

What, precisely, does the word hermeneutics mean? And in what sense can one speak of the hermeneutics of original argument? The author explores these questions in order to build upon Heidegger's hermeneutical thought