The Recovery of Rhetoric: Persuasive Discourse and Disciplinarity in the Human Sciences

by Richard H. Roberts

This collection of essays by distinguished international scholars from various disciplines addresses the widespread and growing interest in the nature and function of rhetoric, and in the rhetorical analysis of such human sciences as psychology, political science, economics, medicine, and philosophy.

The book may be situated with the new studies that show how disciplines have been constructed, legitimated, and institutionalised and, in particular,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813914566
• ISBN13: 9780813914565
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher