Artikler
Charlotte Jørgensen
Who’s to Judge What’s Good Rhetoric?
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) To those who merely consider rhetoric as persuasion by any means the answer is plain: The audience is to judge! From a normative rhetorical perspective, this article disputes such a view as one-sided. It is argued that the rhetorical critic’s
Læs mere......
Anders Sigrell
The ethical entailment of our language choice
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) Should the valuation of rhetoric be based solely on efficiency issues, or is there an ethical side to it? And if we put an emphasis on the close relation between rhetoric and ethic, how is this valuation possible, which concepts and tools do we
Læs mere......
Lennart Hellspong
Democratic dialogue
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) On the relationship between democracy and the art of public speaking. Through its rich contextualization, rhetoric rests on a reasoned approach to man, knowledge, society and language. This long series of associations to other branches of learn
Læs mere......
Jens E. Kjeldsen
Scandinavian Research in Rhetoric
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) In Scandinavia, there is remarkably little debate or discussion about rhetoric as a field of research, Jens E. Kjeldsen suggests. With this article, he initiates the discussion by taking his departure point in the demarcations of rhetoric creat
Læs mere......
Jørgen Fafner
The Focal Point of Rhetoric
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) Whereas rhetoric’s humanistic principle and view of language belongs to the epistemological sphere; the principle of trustworthiness establishes the passage to the acting sphere, where the principles of skills and orality belong. The masterful
Læs mere......
Brigitte Mral
A Womanization of Public Discourse?
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) What happens to political communication when women’s public status is no longer “naturally” low? What kind of rhetorical strategies do women politicians choose when the general opinion not only accepts women in positions of power, but when wom
Læs mere......
Thor Inge Rørvik
‘The Generation of 1814’
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) The formative ideals of Danish-Norwegian classicism have received little attention in Norwegian cultural history. One reason for this is probably due to its supranational character that makes it difficult to fit into the story of Norwegian nati
Læs mere......
Marie Lund Klujeff
Rhetorical Figures and Style as Argumentation
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) The theory of rhetorical figures and style played an important part in certain periods of the history of rhetoric, but in modern rhetorical criticism it has been treated as subordinate to argumentation. Instead, metaphors and rhetorical figur
Læs mere......
Lisa Storm Villadsen
Speaking on behalf of others
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) Official apologies – statements issued by an official on behalf of a public collective (such as a nation, state or a government) to apologize for wrongful deeds done in the past – seem to make up a genre on the rise in the US and worldwide.
Læs mere......
Philip Halldén
Perelman Interpreted in the Shadow of al-Hurayfish
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) Perelman contributed to the rehabilitation of rhetoric as a serious subject in the latter decades of the twentieth century, his rehabilitation comes at the price of a certain bias towards ‘dialectics’ that tends to turn his work into something
Læs mere......
Peter Larsen
From Figure to Figuration
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) The following essay discusses how metaphor and related rhetorical issues have been handled within film theory, one of the younger humanist disciplines. But let me start with a brief outline of the process that transformed the old rhetoric into
Læs mere......
Øivind Andersen
The Right Words at the Right Time
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) Kairos in Classical Rhetoric. In a article from 1968 that has since become known as a classic, Lloyd F. Bitzer couples rhetorical discourse to what he calls the rhetorical situation. The rhetorical situation is a situation or rather a type of s
Læs mere......
Anders Eriksson
Education in Rhetoric
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) Progymnasmata as union of practice and theory. Rhetoric is a school subject. The relationship between rhetoric and education is a major field of research in rhetorical studies. The author argues that rhetoric is a teaching tradition. Education
Læs mere......
Anders Johansen
On thinking in writing, and with style
kr. 28,00
(eKapitel) The assigned subject for this talk is ‘the academic essay’. What I know about this is no more than what one prefers to keep to oneself. Although I have read such essays, I have never studied the genre. I suppose my own writing is at times essay
Læs mere......
Mats Landqvist
Krissamhällets miljödebatt
kr. 16,00
(eArtikel) Om expertkunskapens roll i offentlig deliberation. I den här artikeln analyseras några miljödebatter i den svenska riksdagen under 90- och 00-talen, främst med avseende på hur deltagarna behandlar de ämnen som ingår i debatten
Læs mere......