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Pros And Consby Trevor Sather
Taylor & Francis 1999; US$ 41.95With topics ranging from censorship of the internet to genetic engineering, this work offers a unique and invaluable practical guide to current controversies, providing material on a wide range of subject areas. more...
Competitive Debate: The Official Guideby Richard E. Ph.D. Edwards
Penguin Group Inc. 2008; US$ 13.99The bible for debaters and their coaches. Nearly every high school and college in America has a debate club and/or a debate team. There are hundreds of competitions at the county and state level, culminating in heated national competitions. Yet, at many high schools and colleges, coaches are drawn from the history or English departments with little or no experience in the highly structured procedures of this popular discipline. And while competitive debate has been growing each year as a prime academic activity, there have been no popular handbooks to help students and coaches prepare for contests effectively and efficiently. Practical and authoritative, this guide includes not only tips and guidelines for effective preparation and delivery,... more...
De Redelijkheid van de Klassieke Retoricaby Antoine Braet
Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 82.50De redelijkheid van Klassieke Retorica bevat een ongewone kijk op de klassieke retorica. Deze wordt nu niet gezien als een verzameling opportunistische adviezen om een zaak hoe dan ook te winnen, maar als een vroege bijdrage aan het opstellen van 'regels voor redelijke discussies'. Klassiek-retorische begrippen als stasis (geschil- of bewijslastpunt), enthymeem (enkelvoudige argumentatie), argumentatieve topen (argumentatieschema's) en schijnbare of foutieve argumentaties (drogredenen) worden geduid als evenzovele voorlopers van noties uit de moderne normatieve argumentatietheorie. Deze visie wordt ontwikkeld via een analyse van drie representatieve klassieke werken: de anonieme Rhetorica ad Alexandrum (rond 340 v. Chr.), de Rhetorica... more...
Argumentation in Higher Educationby Richard Andrews
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 46.95Argumentation in Higher Education offers professors, lecturers and researchers informative guidance for teaching effective argumentation skills to their undergraduate and graduate students. This professional guide aims to make the complex topic of argumentation open and transparent. more...
Traditions of Controversyby Marcelo Dascal; Han-liang Chang
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 165.00Controversies may be particularly prominent in one or another culture. Yet, there is hardly any culture where they do not exist. This book assumes that the practice of controversy, along with its theorization, constitutes ? in each of the cultures and disciplines where it develops ? a tradition. Whether there are enough shared elements in these traditions to consider them as, fundamentally, universal or not is something that can only be determined on the basis of a rich sample of controversies and theorizations thereof belonging to different traditions. This is what this volume provides to the reader. By presenting side by side controversies from the East and from the West, from the ancient past up to the present, from different domains of... more...
Gifted Tonguesby Gary Alan Fine
Princeton University Press 2001; US$ 37.50Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with teammates, competitors, coaches, and parents as well as classmates outside the debating circuit. In Gifted Tongues , Gary Alan Fine offers a rich description of this world as a testing ground for both intellectual and emotional development, while seeking to understand adolescents as social actors. Considering the benefits and drawbacks of the debating experience, he also recommends ways of reshaping programs so that more high schools can use them to... more...
Die Kunst des Streitensby Roswitha Simons; Uwe Baumann; Marc Laureys; Winfried Schmitz
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 49.76Hauptbeschreibung Streit als ein Mittel zur Aushandlung von Interessenskonflikten ist eine Konstante menschlicher Gemeinschaft. So verwundert es nicht, dass Streit, beginnend mit Kain und Abel oder dem Zorn des Achill, von den ersten Anfängen an ein fortwährendes Thema der europäischen Kultur ist. Jenseits von Krieg und Gewalt enthält Streit auch kreatives Potenzial, was sich in den verschiedensten Gattungen fiktionaler und non-fiktionaler Literatur offenbart. Hier wird bald Streit im intellektuellen Spiel nach allen Regeln der Kunst in Szene gesetzt, bald wird die Literatur im Kontext religiöser, kultureller und politischer Formierungsprozesse zum Instrument schärfster Auseinandersetzung. Dieser Band ist dem Inszenierungscharakter literarischer... more...
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