Bibliograph

Rhetoric in an antifoundational world, language, culture, and pedagogy

Type

Label

Rhetoric in an antifoundational world, language, culture, and pedagogy

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rhetoric in an antifoundational world

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

language, culture, and pedagogy

Summary

RHETORIC is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things as come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science. Accordingly all men make use, more or less, of both; for to a certain extent all men attempt to discuss statements and to maintain them, to defend themselves and to attack others. Ordinary people do this either at random or through practice and from acquired habit. Both ways being possible, the subject can plainly be handled systematically, for it is possible to inquire the reason why some speakers succeed through practice and others spontaneously; and every one will at once agree that such an inquiry is the function of an art

Target audience

adult

Classification