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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. This book identifies how argumentation as a communicative practice can best be understood by its rhetorical features.
Print Book, English, cop. 2004
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, cop. 2004
xiii, 208 p. 24 cm
9781412904001, 9781412903998, 1412904005, 1412903998
1088132460
1. Introduction: A Rhetorical Turn for Argumentation Alice′s Predicament Models of Argument Beyond the Logical Beyond the Dialectical Rhetoric and Rhetorical Argumentation The Path Ahead2. Argument as Rhetorical... Introduction: Rhetoric′s Origin Argument′s Origin Rhetoric and Argument in Fifth- and Fourth- Century Greece Sophistic Argument Sophistic Argument and the Notion of ′Fallacy′ Rhetoric as Invitational3. ...And Rhetoric as Argument Introduction: Rhetorical Figures and Arguments Reboul on Figures and Arguments Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca Fahnestock′s Figural Logic Figures as Arguments Conclusion4. Rhetorical Contexts and the Dialogical Introduction: Dialogue and Dialogues Bakhtin′s Terminology Dialogic Argument Reflections on a Bakhtinian Model Examples Conclusion5. Martians, Philosophers, and Reasonable People: The Construction of Objective Standards Introduction How Martians Reason The Martian Standard and the Problems of Evaluation Bakhtin′s Superaddressee Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca′s Universal Audience Conclusion6. Developing the Universal Audience Introduction: Why the Universal Audience Fails Reading the Universal Audience: Two Views Reappraising the Universal Audience Applying the Idea of a Universal Audience7. The Truth about Orangutans: Conflicting Criteria of Premise Adequacy Introduction: Deep Disagreements Between Logic and Rhetoric Hamblin′s Orangutans The Rhetoric of Philosophy: Metaphors as Argument Acceptability Conclusion8. Rhetorical Conclusions From Protagoras to Bakhtin The Rhetorical Audience Goals of Rhetorical Argumentation Conclusions Without Conclusiveness