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COMPARATIVE RHETORIC
AN HISTORICAL AND CROSS CULTURAL INTRODUCTION |
| By: |
George A. Kennedy |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£42.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195109325 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195109320 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 1997 |
| Pages: |
250 |
| Description: |
A cross-cultural overview of rhetoric as a universal feature of expression and communication which explores analogies to human rhetoric in animal communication, rhetorical factors in the origin of human speech and conventions in traditionally oral societies. Kennedy also discusses rhetoric as understood and practiced in early literate societies. |
| Synopsis: |
Offering a cross-cultural overview of rhetoric as a universal feature of expression and communication. The author explores analogies to human rhetoric in animal communication, rhetorical factors in the origin of human speech, and rhetorical conventions in traditionally oral societies around the world. The second part of the book discusses rhetoric as understood and practiced in early literate cultures, seeking to identify what is unique or unusual in the Western tradition. |
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bibliography |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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Non-returnable |
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