A Pragmatic Theory of Rhetoric - Rilegato

Beale, Walter H.

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ISBN 10: 0809313006 ISBN 13: 9780809313006

Casa editrice: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1987

Riassunto

Walter H. Beale offers the most coherent treatment of the aims and modes of discourse to be presented in more than a decade. His development of a semiotic “grammar of motives” that re­lates the problems of meaning in discourse both to linguistic structure and ways of construct­ing reality stands as a pro­vocative new theory of rhetoric sharply focused on writing.

 

He includes a comprehensive treatment of rhetoric, its classes and varieties, modes, and stra­tegies. In addition, he demon­strates the importance of the purpose, substance, and social context of discourse, at a time when scholarly attention has be­come preoccupied with process. He fortifies and extends the Aristotelian approach to rhetoric and discourse at a time when much theory and pedagogy have yielded to modernist assump­tions and methods. And finally, he develops a theoretical framework that illuminates the relationship between rhetoric, the language arts, and the hu­man sciences in general.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Walter H. Beale is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and author of such books as Stylistic Options and Real Writing: Argumentation, Reflection, Information.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0809313006
• ISBN 13: 9780809313006
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 184
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile