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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817440603321

Autore

Tindale Christopher W (Christopher William)

Titolo

Rhetorical argumentation : principles of theory and practice / / Christopher W. Tindale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c2004

ISBN

1-4522-3832-4

1-322-28285-4

1-4522-2229-0

1-4129-0399-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 208 p.)

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Persuasion (Rhetoric)

Rhetoric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; About the Author; Preface; 1 - A Rhetorical Turn for Argumentation; 2 - Argument as Rhetorical . . .; 3. . . And Rhetoric as Argument; 4 - Rhetorical Contexts and the Dialogical; 5 - Martians, Philosophers, and Reasonable People: The Construction of Objectivity; 6 - Developing the Universal Audience; 7 - The Truth About Orangutans: Conflicting Criteria of Premise Adequacy; 8 - Rhetorical Conclusions; Index

Sommario/riassunto

By encouraging readers to think about the ways they encounter arguments, this text presents argumentation through the idea of an invitational rhetoric.