Todd Oakley

Rhetorical Minds (eBook, ePUB)

Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Minds are rhetorical. From the moment we are born others are shaping our capacity for mental agency. As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition. Each chapter reflects on a different dimension of human thought based on the fundamental proposition that our rhetoric thinks and acts with and through others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789206708
• Artikelnr.: 59069259

Autorenporträt

Todd Oakley is Professor of and Chair of Cognitive Science and Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. His recent publications include Issue 6 of Cognitive Semiotics which he co-edited with Ana Margarida Abrantes.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: (Homo Rhetoricus)
Part I: Theoretical Prerequisites
Chapter 1. Starting Points
Chapter 2. Homo Rhetoricus as a Creature of Presence
Chapter 3. Representation and the Semiotic Circuit
Part II: Evolution and Development of Homo Rhetoricus
Chapter 4. Becoming Human: The Evolution of Homo Rhetoricus
Chapter 5. Becoming Human: The Development of Homo Rhetoricus
Chapter 6. The Languaging of Homo Rhetoricus
Part III: Discourse and Social Ontology
Chapter 7. Language in the World of Homo Rhetoricus
Chapter 8. Institutions and Document Acts
Chapter 9. The Lifeworlds of Homo Rhetoricus
Chapter 10. Setting Up for 'Setting Off' Homo Rhetoricus
Concluding Remarks
References
Index