What is rhetoric? / Michel Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, Michel, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

xvi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate issues or simply discuss questions. Rhetoric is the way in which we answer questions in an interpersonal context, when we want to have an effect on those with whom we are communicating. They can be convinced or charmed, persuaded or influenced, and the language used can range from reasoning to the sharing of narratives, literary or otherwise. 'What is Rhetoric?' provides a breakthrough in the field, offering a systematic and unified view of the topic. The book combines the social aspects of rhetoric, such as the negotiation of distance between speakers, with the theory of emotions. All the principal authors from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary theorists are integrated into Michel Meyer's "problematological" conception of rhetoric, based on the primacy of questioning and answering in language and thought.

Contents:

1 The basic features of the history of rhetoric 14

2 The question-view of logos 80

3 Rhetoric and argumentation: the unity of the field 99

4 The common operators in figures and arguments 121

5 The argumentative structures 131

6 The elements of rhetoric strict sensu: the figures of speech 141

7 The foundations of literary rhetoric 158

8 The rhetoric of the arts 180

9 The role of ethos: the voice of values 190

10 The role of pathos: from argumentative responses to feeling and emotions 203

11 The negotiation of distance or the embodiment of the interpersonal 216.

ISBN:

9780199691821

0199691827

OCLC:

970680466