Rhetorical Minds - Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Todd Oakley
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781789206692
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-669-2
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Studies in Linguistic Anthropo; Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Philosophy of Language, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Anthropology (General); Sociology