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The study of argumentation has primarily focused on logical and dialectical approaches, with minimal attention given to the rhetorical facets of argument. 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. Throughout this text, author Christopher W. Tindale identifies how argumentation as a communicative practice can best be understood by its rhetorical features.
Argument as Rhetorical …
Argument as Rhetorical …
Introduction: Rhetoric's Origin
Argument, like rhetoric, comes out of the ancient Greek world. Also, like rhetoric, its emergence is to some degree indistinct and carries with it elements of controversy.
In Plato's Gorgias, the Sophist claims to have gone with his brother to the bedside of a sick man who had refused medical assistance, and persuaded the man “by means of no other art than rhetoric (rhētorikē)” (456b). This fits squarely with the traditional understanding of the Sophists as practitioners of the art of rhetoric. In fact, the “traditional” conflict between philosophy and rhetoric is often identified in the conflict between Plato and the Sophists (Mailloux 1995, 20). As Kerferd (1981) notes, various concerns have been deemed the distinguishing mark ...
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