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Rhetoric of intention in human affairs / Gary C. Woodward.
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EBSCOhost Ebook Public Library Collection - North America- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woodward, Gary C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motivation (Psychology).
- Intention.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (162 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Assumed intentions are embedded in virtually all forms of human discussion. The Rhetoric of Intention in Human Affairs draws on a vast range of resources to describe the social and psychological forces at work in shaping the human impulse to explain why others act.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: How We Know What We Can't; Chapter 2: Them: Conspiracies, Disasters, and Presumed Culpability; Chapter 3: Theater, Acting, and the Sources of Motivation; Chapter 4: The Telepathic Journalist; Chapter 5: Legal Benchmarks for Establishing Intent; Chapter 6: God's Plan: Agency, and the Quandary of Divine Intention; Postscript; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-7905-5
- OCLC:
- 858763414
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