ISBN:
9781789206708
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
326 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Studies in Linguistic Anthropology 1
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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 --
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