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Challenging Greco-Roman argumentation trajectories: argument norms and cultural traditions.(overview to Fall 2004 issue of magazine)
September 22, 2004... A common view in western scholarship is that argumentation is to be valorized, generally, as a key component of good decisions, and, specifically, as an essential "tool" for life in western, democratic societies. Klumpp, Hollihan, and Riley...
The useless-/usefulness of argumentation: the DAO of disputation.
September 22, 2004... This essay answers the call for culturally diverse studies of argumentation by examining Daoist (1) approaches to argumentation and contrasting them with Greco-Roman theorizing. Daoism is a key component of the Chinese philosophical tradition....
Arguing with God, Talmudic discourse, and the Jewish countermodel: implications for the study of argumentation.
September 22, 2004... God may well slay me; I may have no hope/Yet I will argue my case before God.
Job 13:15 (Miles 324)
[To love the Torah more than God is] protection against the madness of a direct contact with the Sacred that is unmediated by reason....
Factionalism as argumentation: a case study of the indigenous communication practices of Jemez Pueblo.
September 22, 2004... Argumentation, as western societies know it, has its roots in ancient Greece and became the foundation of contemporary democratic processes (Amossy, 2002; Aune, 1999; Braet, 2004; Schiappa, 1992; Timmerman, 1993; Wenzel, 1990). There is no...
"This painful chapter": an analysis of Emperor Akihito's apologia in the context of Dutch old sores.
September 22, 2004... Emperor Akihito's first official visit to the Netherlands was seen as the highlight of the Japanese Imperial Couple's four-nation European tour in 2000. There are two reasons for this view. First, Japan and the Netherlands were celebrating four...
Legalizing Gay Marriage.
September 22, 2004... Legalizing Gay Marriage. By Michael Mello. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004; pp. xiv + 337. $68.50 cloth; $22.95 paper.
Michael Mello's Legalizing Gay Marriage reminds us that oftentimes our best scholarly work steins from our...
Critical Resistance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Critical Resistance. By David Couzens Hoy. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2001; pp. vvi-274. $35.00.
What is critical resistance? How and when should it be encouraged? Can it even be encouraged? These questions and their infinite corollaries...
Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture, and Communication.
September 22, 2004... Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture, and Communication. By Xing Lu. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004; pp. xiii-250. $49.95.
Xing Lu's book combines rhetorical anal yses of...
Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America.
September 22, 2004... Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America. By John Howe. Andover: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004; pp. 1-288. $39.95.
John Howe sets out to uncover how eighteenth-century American revolutionaries and their British...
Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America.
September 22, 2004... Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America. Edited by Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004; pp. xix-280. $59.50 cloth; $24.50 paper.
Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman's...