The rebirth of dialogue
Subtitle: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the rhetorical tradition
By: James P. Zappen.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Plato.; Socrates.; Bakhtin, M. M. 1895-1975.; Dialogue analysis.; Rhetoric.
Description: "This book explores Bakhtin's understanding of Socratic dialogue and the notion that dialogue is not simply a way of persuading others to accept our ideas, but a way of holding ourselves, and others, accountable for all of our thoughts, words, and actions. In supporting this premise, Bakhtin challenges the traditions of argument and persuasion handed down from Plato and Aristotle, and he offers, as an alternative, a dialogical rhetoric that restructures the traditional relationship between speakers and listeners, writers and readers, as a mutual testing, contesting, and creating of ideas. The author suggests that Bakhtin's dialogical rhetoric is not restricted to oral discourse, but is possible in any medium, including written, graphic, and digital."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index.