Pragmatic Theory of Rhetoric

by Walter Beale

Walter H. Beale offersthe most coherent treatment of the aims and modes of discourse to be presented in more than a decade. His development of a semiotic "grammar of motives" that re­lates the problems of meaning in discourse both to linguistic structure and ways of construct­ing reality stands as a pro­vocative new theory of rhetoric sharply focused on writing.

He includes a comprehensive treatment of rhetoric, its classes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809313006
• ISBN13: 9780809313006
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"