Office Of Assertion

Author: Scott F. Crider
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684516307
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Scott F. Crider addresses the intelligent university student with respect and humor. A short but serious book of rhetoric, it is informed by both the ancient rhetorical tradition and recent discoveries concerning the writing process. Though practical, it is not simply a how-to manual; though philosophical, it never loses sight of writing itself. Crider combines practical guidance about how to improve an academic essay with reflection on the purpose - educational, political, and philosophical - of such improvement.

Assertion

Author: Sanford Goldberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198732481
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Presents an account of the speech act of assertion and defends the view that it is answerable to a constitutive norm and is suited to explaining assertions connections to other philosophical topics.

The Art of Persuasion

Author: Scott Crider
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985565985
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Introductory book on rhetoric

The Rhetoric of American Exceptionalism

Author: Jason A. Edwards
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786486813
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
The American experience has been defined, in part, by the rhetoric of exceptionalism. This book of 11 critical essays explores the notion as it is manifested across a range of contexts, including the presidency, foreign policy, religion, economics, American history, television news and sports. The idea of exceptionalism is explored through the words of its champions and its challengers, past and present. By studying how the principles of American exceptionalism have been used, adapted, challenged, and even rejected, this volume demonstrates the continued importance of exceptionalism to the mythology, sense of place, direction and identity of the United States, within and outside of the realm of politics. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Invention as a Social Act

Author: Karen Burke LeFevre
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809313286
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Building on the work of rhetoricians, philosophers, linguists, and theorists in other disciplines, Karen Burke LeFevre challenges a widely-held view of rhetorical invention as the act of an atomistic individual. She proposes that invention be viewed as a social act, in which individuals interact dialectically with society and culture in distinctive ways.

Rhetoric and Reality

Author: James A. Berlin
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 080931360X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Intended for teachers of college composition, this history of major and minor developments in the teaching of writing in twentieth-century American colleges employs a taxonomy of theories based on the three epistemological categories (objective, subjective, and transactional) dominating rhetorical theory and practice. The first section of the book provides an overview of the three theories, specifically their assumptions and rhetorics. The main chapters cover the following topics: (1) the nineteenth-century background, on the formation of the English department and the subsequent relationship of rhetoric and poetic; (2) the growth of the discipline (1900-1920), including the formation of the National Council of Teachers of English, the appearance of the major schools of rhetoric, the efficiency movement, graduate education in rhetoric, undergraduate courses and the Great War; (3) the influence of progressive education (1920-1940), including the writing program and current-traditional rhetoric, liberal culture, and expressionistic and social rhetoric; (4) the communication emphasis (1940-1960), including the communications course, the founding of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, literature and composition, linguistics and composition, and the revival of rhetoric; and (5) the renaissance of rhetoric and major rhetorical approaches (1960-1975), including contemporary theories based on the three epistemic categories. A final chapter briefly surveys developments through 1987. (JG)

Assertion and Conditionals

Author: Anthony Appiah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521071291
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book develops in detail the simple idea that assertion is the expression of belief. In it the author puts forward a version of 'probabilistic semantics' which acknowledges that we are not perfectly rational, and which offers a significant advance in generality on theories of meaning couched in terms of truth conditions. It promises to challenge a number of entrenched and widespread views about the relations of language and mind. Part I presents a functionalist account of belief, worked through a modified form of decision theory. In Part II the author generates a theory of meaning in terms of 'assertibility conditions', whereby to know the meaning of an assertion is to know the belief it expresses.

Only the Lover Sings

Author: Josef Pieper
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 9780898703023
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
The popular and highly regarded Josef Pieper speaks of the necessity for human persons to be able to contemplate and appreciate beauty to develop their full humanity. Pieper expresses succinctly that the foundation of the human person in society is leisure, free time in which one can contemplate, be receptive to being and its beauty.

Ancient Rhetoric

Author:
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141392657
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 371

Book Description
Classical rhetoric is one of the earliest versions of what is today known as media studies. It was absolutely crucial to life in the ancient world, whether in the courtroom, the legislature, or on ceremonial occasions, and was described as either the art of the persuasion or the art of speaking well. This anthology brings together all the most important ancient writings on rhetoric, including works by Cicero, Aristotle, Quintilian and Philostratus. Ranging across such themes as memory, persuasion, delivery and style, it provides a fascinating introduction to classical rhetoric and will be an invaluable sourcebook for students of the ancient world.

Art, Context and Criticism

Author: John Kissick
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
Employing a chronological approach, this beautifully illustrated text can serve as a brief one semester introduction to art history, or as a core text in art appreciation.