Acts of Arguing: A Rhetorical Model of Argument

by Christopher W. Tindale

Book Overview

The revival of argumentation theory in the past few decades has focused on its logical and dialectical dimensions, with less attention paid to rhetorical features. This book explores and then redresses this imbalance. Tindale examines important logical and dialectical innovations in recent argumentation theory and shows that they depend implicitly upon rhetorical features of argument that have been suppressed in the account. This is illustrated using...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791443876
• ISBN13: 9780791443873
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.