Comparative Rhetoric

An Historical and Cross Cultural Introduction

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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This is the first book to offer a cross-cultural overview of rhetoric as a universal feature of expression and communication. The author explores analogies to human rhetoric in animal communication, rhetorical factors in the origin of human speech, and rhetorical conventions in traditionally oral societies around the world. The second part of the book discusses rhetoric as understood and practised in early literate cultures, seeking to identify what is unique orunusual in the western tradition.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-11-06
Mått155 x 233 x 12 mm
Vikt365 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagOxford University Press Inc
ISBN9780195109337

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PART I: RHETORIC IN SOCIETIES WITHOUT WRITING1. Rhetoric Among Social Animals2. Rhetorical Factors in the Early Development of Human Language3. Rhetoric in Aboriginal Australian Culture4. Formal Speech in Some Oral Cultures5. North American Indian RhetoricPART II: RHETORIC IN ANCIENT LITERATE SOCIETIES6. Literacy and Rhetoric in the Ancient Near East7. Rhetoric in Ancient China8. Rhetoric in Ancient India9. Rhetoric in Greece and Rome

This book is the mature reflection of a highly respected scholar in Graeco-Roman rhetoric ... There is a great deal of useful human knowledge in this book ... The presentation of the argument is admirably clear throughout ... The book is not without humour ... This seems to me a brave book. It is courageous to essay into other cultures, some of them still living, and try to summarise their processes ... K's argument will stimulate interest in comparative rhetoric,as he hopes, and has raised questions to which there will be some very interesting responses.