Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation

About the author

Christian Kock is Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication at the University of Copenhagen.Lisa S. Villadsen is Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Rhetoric in the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication at the University of Copenhagen.

Summary

A collection of essays examining citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, in the sense that important civic functions take place in deliberation among citizens and that discourse is not prefatory to real action but in many ways constitutive of civic engagement.

Product details

• Assisted by: Christian Kock (Editor), Kock Christian (Editor), Lisa Villadsen (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2015
• EAN: 9780271053882
• ISBN: 978-0-271-05388-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Schaubilder
• Series: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Communication Studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship