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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827963603321

Autore

McComiskey Bruce <1963->

Titolo

Dialectical rhetoric / / Bruce McComiskey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, [Utah] : , : Utah State University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4571-9539-9

0-87421-982-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Persuasion (Rhetoric)

Rhetoric - Study and teaching - History

Rhetoric - Data processing

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Historical trajectories of dialectic and rhetoric -- Dialectic in (and out of) rhetoric and composition -- The dimensions of rhetoric -- Three-dimensional dialectical rhetorics -- Three-dimensional dialectical rhetorics in digital context.

Sommario/riassunto

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 to