Acts of Arguing
Subtitle: A Rhetorical Model of Argument (Suny Series in Logic and Language)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780791443880
Subjects: Western philosophy; Rhetoric; Philosophy; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Logic; Public Speaking; Reasoning
Description: "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 two extended case studies, one looking at Shell International's defense of its actions in Nigeria after the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa, and the other exploring the uses of character-based argument and testimony in a Holocaust-denial text and legal trial."--BOOK JACKET.