The Rhetorical Turn: Invention and Persuasion in the Conduct of Inquiry

by Herbert W. Simons

Book Overview

We have only recently started to challenge the notion that "serious" inquiry can be free of rhetoric, that it can rely exclusively on "hard" fact and "cold" logic in support of its claims. Increasingly, scholars are shifting their attention from methods of proof to the heuristic methods of debate and discussion--the art of rhetoric--to examine how scholarly discourse is shaped by tropes and figures, by the naming and framing of issues, and by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226759024
• ISBN13: 9780226759029
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"