Rhetorical perspectives on argumentation : selected essays / by David Zarefsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zarefsky, David, author.

Series:

Argumentation library ; v. 24.

Argumentation Library, 1566-7650 ; volume 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persuasion (Rhetoric).

Debates and debating.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Rhetoric.

Political oratory.

Physical Description:

xix, 265 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2014]

Contents:

Reflections on making the case

Argument as hypothesis-testing

Knowledge claims in rhetorical criticism

What does an argument culture look like?

Reclaiming rhetoric's responsibilities

Product, process, or point of view?

Persistent questions in the theory of argument fields

Strategic maneuvering in political argumentation

Taking the jurisprudential analogy seriously

Definitions

Strategic maneuvering through persuasive definitions : implications for dialectic and rhetoric

Felicity conditions for the circumstantial : ad hominem : the case of Bush v. Gore

Terrorism and the argument from ignorance

Arguing about values : the problem of public moral argument

The appeal for transcendence : a possible response to cases of deep disagreement

Conspiracy arguments in the Lincoln-Douglas debates

Turning points in the Galesburg debate

Presidential rhetoric and the power of definition

The impasse of the liberal argument : speculation on American politics in the late 1960s

Pragma-dialectical analysis of rhetorical texts : the case of Barack Obama in Cairo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3319054848

9783319054841

OCLC:

870990949