Dialogue, Dialectic and Conversation: A Social Perspective on the Function of Writing

by Gregory Clark and George Albert Brown

This book articulates an ethics for reading that places primary responsibility for the social influences of a text on the response of its readers. We write and read as participants in a process through which we negotiate with others whom we must live or work with and with whom we share values, beliefs, and actions. Clark draws on current literary theory, rhetoric, philosophy, communication theory, and composition studies as he builds on this argument...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809315793
• ISBN13: 9780809315796
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 8.5"