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Analyzing the roles of challenge and defense in argumentation.
June 22, 2002... The reasoning employed by participants in everyday, informal arguments is, to varying degrees, dialogical or dialectical in nature (Blair and Johnson, 1987; van Eemeren et al., 1996, pp. 2-5; Rips, 1998). That is, arguments do not consist of...
Charity and the American jury: exploring the relationship between plaintiff's need-based arguments and juror verdicts in medical malpractice suits.
June 22, 2002... Argument plays a fundamental role in the legal process. Scholars exploring the interconnection between argument and law have examined the forms of reasoning in legal argument (Newell & Rieke, 1986; Sheppard & Rieke, 1983), the patriarchal...
Conspiracy theories: public arguments as coded social critiques: a rhetorical analysis of the TWA flight 800 conspiracy theories.
June 22, 2002... In my view, the 'Alice in Wonderland' public positions the FBI has taken in this incident have now crossed over from being merely illogical or incompetent to the appearance of obstruction of justice.
Cdr. William S. Donalsdon
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Public argument-driven security studies. (Review Essay).
June 22, 2002... The topic of global security has recently received considerable attention in the field of argumentation studies, with public argument scholars engaging a host of vexing issues posed by the tumult in world affairs triggered by the fall of the...
At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture. By Edward J. Ingebretsen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001; pp. xvi + 341. $40.00.
After the ruinous ride of the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse last September, a...
Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Case of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger, and Wilson. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Case of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger, and Wilson. By Leah Ceccarelli. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001; pp. xi + 204. $55.00; paper $20.00.
Ceccarelli maintains that science, at least in moments of...
Crucial Concepts in Argumentation Theory. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... Crucial Concepts in Argumentation Theory. Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Sic Sat), 2001; pp. 240. $23.25 paper.
This book is both a state-of-the-art account of the doctrines about most of the...
From Identity to Politics: The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... From Identity to Politics: The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States. By Craig A. Rimmerman. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002; pp. xi + 239. $69.50; $19.95 paper.
Craig A. Rimmerman presents a compelling and timely...
The Rhetorical Imagination of Kenneth Burke. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... The Rhetorical Imagination of Kenneth Burke. By Ross Wolin. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2001; pp. xiii + 256. $34.95.
A later inquirer, for whom materialist associationism and transcendental idealism are usually...
Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid. By Kimber Charles Pearce. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001; pp. x + 173. $35.95.
In Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid, Kimber Charles Pearce has provided...
Judgment, Rhetoric, and the Problem of Incommensurability: Recalling Practical Wisdom. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2002... Judgment, Rhetoric, and the Problem of Incommensurability: Recalling Practical Wisdom. By Nola J. Heidlebaugh. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2001; pp. xiii + 171. $29.95.
In her investigation of "active artistic...