Rhetoricians on Argumentation

Christian Kock is Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen. He has done research on political argumentation and debate, the history of rhetoric, rhetorical citizenship, credibility, journalism, literary studies, aesthetics, linguistics and writing pedagogy. He has been a Visiting Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, and is author, editor, co-author or co-editor of c. 20 books in rhetoric, linguistics, argumentation, journalism, political debate, and literature, as well as numerous articles for scholarly as well general audiences. He is frequently used as a commentator on rhetoric and political debate in the media. His main non-academic interest is music; he has played in, chaired or served on the board of various ensembles and organizations in classical music.

• Introduction: Rhetoricians on Argumentation.- Underlying Assumptions of Examining Argumentation Rhetorically.- Argument from Similitude in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Deliberative Dissent from War.- Progress, but Slow Going: Public Argument in the Forging of Collective Norms.- Rhetorical Structures, Deliberative Ecologies, and the Conditions for Democratic Argumentation.- Teaching Argument Through Relationships.- Rhetorical Citizenship and the Science of Science Communication.- Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen (Eds.): From Argument Schemes to Argumentative Relations in the Wild: A Variety of Contributions to Argumentation Theory.- Eddo Rigotti and Sara Greco: Inference in Argumentation. A Topics-Based Approach to Argument Schemes.- Correction to: Eddo Rigotti and Sara Greco: Inference in Argumentation. A Topics-Based Approach to Argument Schemes.