Dialogue And Rhetoric

Author : Marta Spranzi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Edda Weigand
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027210197

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Dialogue and Rhetoric by Edda Weigand Pdf

The volume deals with the relationship between dialogue and rhetoric. The actual state of the art in dialogue analysis is characterized by a tendency to overcome the distinction between competence and performance and to combine components from both sides of the dichotomy, in a way which includes rules as well as inferences. The same is true of rhetoric: the guidelines proposed here no longer state that rationality and persuasion are mutually exclusive but suggest that they interact in what might be called the 'mixed game'. The concept of a dialogic rhetoric thus poses the question of how to integrate the different voices. Part I of the volume assembles several 'rhetorical paradigms' which are applied to real-life performance. Part II on 'rhetoric in the mixed game' contains a selection of papers which illustrate the interaction of various components. The Round Table discussion in Part III brings proponents of different paradigms face to face with each other and shows how they justify their own positions and present arguments against rival paradigms.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 1880393336

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Plato on Rhetoric and Language by Plato Pdf

This volume offers a new interpretation of Plato's thoughts on rhetoric and language. It is intended for scholars and students of classical rhetoric, English, and philosophy.

Author : Oyvind Ihlen,Robert L. Heath
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119265733

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The Handbook of Organizational Rhetoric and Communication by Oyvind Ihlen,Robert L. Heath Pdf

A one-stop source for scholars and advanced students who want to get the latest and best overview and discussion of how organizations use rhetoric While the disciplinary study of rhetoric is alive and well, there has been curiously little specific interest in the rhetoric of organizations. This book seeks to remedy that omission. It presents a research collection created by the insights of leading scholars on rhetoric and organizations while discussing state-of-the-art insights from disciplines that have and will continue to use rhetoric. Beginning with an introduction to the topic, The Handbook of Organizational Rhetoric and Communication offers coverage of the foundations and macro-contexts of rhetoric—as well as its use in organizational communication, public relations, marketing, management and organization theory. It then looks at intellectual and moral foundations without which rhetoric could not have occurred, discussing key concepts in rhetorical theory. The book then goes on to analyze the processes of rhetoric and the challenges and strategies involved. A section is also devoted to discussing rhetorical areas or genres—namely contextual application of rhetoric and the challenges that arise, such as strategic issues for management and corporate social responsibility. The final part seeks to answer questions about the book’s contribution to the understanding of organizational rhetoric. It also examines what perspectives are lacking, and what the future might hold for the study of organizational rhetoric. Examines the advantages and perils of organizations that seek to project their voices in order to shape society to their benefits Contains chapters working in the tradition of rhetorical criticism that ask whether organizations’ rhetorical strategies have fulfilled their organizational and societal value Discusses the importance of obvious, traditional, nuanced, and critically valued strategies such as rhetorical interaction in ways that benefit discourse Explores the potential, risks, paradoxes, and requirements of engagement Reflects the views of a team of scholars from across the globe Features contributions from organization-centered fields such as organizational communication, public relations, marketing, management, and organization theory The Handbook of Organizational Rhetoric and Communication will be an ideal resource for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars studying organizational communications, public relations, management, and rhetoric.

Author : Edda Weigand
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290823

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Dialogue and Rhetoric by Edda Weigand Pdf

The volume deals with the relationship between dialogue and rhetoric. The actual state of the art in dialogue analysis is characterized by a tendency to overcome the distinction between competence and performance and to combine components from both sides of the dichotomy, in a way which includes rules as well as inferences. The same is true of rhetoric: the guidelines proposed here no longer state that rationality and persuasion are mutually exclusive but suggest that they interact in what might be called the ‘mixed game’. The concept of a dialogic rhetoric thus poses the question of how to integrate the different voices. Part I of the volume assembles several ‘rhetorical paradigms’ which are applied to real-life performance. Part II on ‘rhetoric in the mixed game’ contains a selection of papers which illustrate the interaction of various components. The Round Table discussion in Part III brings proponents of different paradigms face to face with each other and shows how they justify their own positions and present arguments against rival paradigms.

Author : Gerard A. Hauser
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271045610

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Philosophy and Rhetoric in Dialogue by Gerard A. Hauser Pdf

Author : James P. Zappen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791484906

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The Rebirth of Dialogue by James P. Zappen Pdf

Dialogue has suffered a long eclipse in the history of philosophy and the history of rhetoric but has enjoyed a rebirth in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Buber, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Among twentieth-century figures, Bakhtin took a special interest in the history of the dialogue form. This book explores Bakhtin's understanding of Socratic dialogue and the notion that dialogue is not simply a way of persuading others to accept our ideas, but a way of holding ourselves, and others, accountable for all of our thoughts, words, and actions. In supporting this premise, Bakhtin challenges the traditions of argument and persuasion handed down from Plato and Aristotle, and he offers, as an alternative, a dialogical rhetoric that restructures the traditional relationship between speakers and listeners, writers and readers, as a mutual testing, contesting, and creating of ideas. The author suggests that Bakhtin's dialogical rhetoric is not restricted to oral discourse, but is possible in any medium, including written, graphic, and digital.

Author : Wouter H. Slob
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402009089

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Dialogical Rhetoric by Wouter H. Slob Pdf

Slob (Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, The Netherlands) adapted his doctoral dissertation in theology, leaving out or revising specific theological chapters. Still, he warns, he is a theologian splashing around in the shallows of logic. If deconstructionists, or postmodernists are right in their criticism of logocentrism and celebration of difference, and thus truth fundamentally fails, he asks, what then? He begins by setting out reasons for truth in the first place: without it, there would be nothing to strive for; and it would be impossible to draw authority in normative matters. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Gary Goshgarian,Kathleen Krueger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0205692729

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Dialogues by Gary Goshgarian,Kathleen Krueger Pdf

Author : Gary Goshgarian,Kathleen Krueger
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 032192553X

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Dialogues by Gary Goshgarian,Kathleen Krueger Pdf

Dialogues represents argument not as a battle to be won, but as a process of dialogue and deliberation-the exchange of opinions and ideas-among people with different values and perspectives. Part One contains succinct instruction on analyzing and developing arguments, including critical reading, source documentation, and analyzing visual arguments. Part Two, updated with many new readings addressing current issues, offers a diverse collection of provocative essays from both the popular and scholarly medium. The lucid, lively, and engaging writing addresses students as writers and thinkers, without overwhelming them with unnecessary jargon or theory.

Author : Jeffrey S. Librett
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804739315

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The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue by Jeffrey S. Librett Pdf

In this groundbreaking work, the author effects the first extended rhetorical-philosophical reading of the historically problematic relationship between Jews and Germans, based on an analysis of texts from the Enlightenment through Modernism by Moses Mendelssohn, Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel, Karl Marx, Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud. The theoretical underpinning of the work lies in the author’s rereading, in terms of contemporary rhetorical theory, of the medieval tradition known as “figural representation,” which defines the Jewish-Christian relation as that between the dead, prefigural letter and the living, fulfilled spirit. After arguing that the German Enlightenment ultimately plays out the historical phantasm of a necessary “Judaization” of Protestant rationality, the author shows that German Early Romanticism consists fundamentally in the attempt to solve the aporias raised by this impossible confrontation between Protestant spirit and Jewish letter. In readings of Dorothea Schlegel—Mendelssohn’s daughter—and her husband Friedrich Schlegel, the author provides a new interpretation of the Neo-Catholic turn of later German Romanticism. Further, he situates the proleptic end and reversal of the project of Jewish emancipation in the two extreme versions of late-nineteenth-century anti-Judaism, those of Marx and Wagner, here viewed as binary concretizations of a specifically post-Romantic paganized Protestantism. Finally, the author argues that twentieth-century Modernism as represented by Nietzsche and Freud renews, if in a multiply ironic displacement, the secret “Judaizing” tendencies of the Enlightenment. Fascism and Communism both denigrate this Modernism, which affirms the letter of language as quasi-synonymous with the force of temporality—or anticipatory repetition—that disrupts all claims to the full presence of spirit. The book ends with a note on recent debates about Holocaust memory.

Author : Ellen Breitholtz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004436794

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Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue by Ellen Breitholtz Pdf

In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts of enthymemes and topoi, originating in Aristotelian rhetoric and dialectic, and integrates these in a formal dialogue semantic account using TTR, a type theory with records. Argumentation analysis and formal approaches to reasoning often focus the logical validity of arguments on inferences made in discourse from a god’s-eye perspective. In contrast, Breitholtz’s account emphasises the individual perspectives of interlocutors and the function and acceptability of their reasoning in context. This provides an analysis of interactions where interlocutors have access to different topoi and therefore make different inferences.

Author : Marta Spranzi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Gregory Clark
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Devin Stauffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139448918

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The Unity of Plato's 'Gorgias' by Devin Stauffer Pdf

Stauffer demonstrates the complex unity of Plato's Gorgias through a careful analysis of the dialogue's three main sections. This includes Socrates' famous argumentative duel with Callicles, a passionate critic of justice and philosophy, showing how the seemingly disparate themes of rhetoric, justice and the philosophic life are woven together into a coherent whole. His interpretation of the Gorgias sheds new light on Plato's thought, showing that Plato and Socrates had a more favourable view of rhetoric than is usually supposed. Stauffer also challenges common assumptions concerning the character and purpose of some of Socrates' most famous claims about justice. Written as a close study of the Gorgias, Stauffer also treats broad questions concerning Plato's moral and political psychology and uncovers the view of the relationship between philosophy and politics that guided Plato as he wrote his dialogues.