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Dialectical rhetoric / Bruce McComiskey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McComiskey, Bruce, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Persuasion (Rhetoric).
- Rhetoric--Study and teaching--History.
- Rhetoric.
- Rhetoric--Data processing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, [Utah] : Utah State University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781457195396
- 1457195399
- 9780874219821
- 0874219825
- OCLC:
- 910823876
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