Location
University of Windsor
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
acceptability, audience, dialectic, dialogue, oratory, reasoning, relevance, rhetoric, solo performance, sufficiency
Start Date
22-5-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
25-5-2013 5:00 PM
Abstract
If dialogue is a necessary condition for argument, argumentation in oratory becomes questionable, since rhetoric is not a dialogically structured activity. If special norms apply to the ‘solo’ performances of rhetoric, the orator’s activity may be more appropriately described as reasoning than as arguing. By analyzing in what respect rhetorical texts can be interpreted as dialogue-based and subject to criteria of Informal Logic, the virtues of rhetorical argumentation in contrast to logic and dialectic emerge.
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A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Commentary on: Manfred Kraus' "Arguing or Reasoning? Argumentation in rhetorical context"
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If dialogue is a necessary condition for argument, argumentation in oratory becomes questionable, since rhetoric is not a dialogically structured activity. If special norms apply to the ‘solo’ performances of rhetoric, the orator’s activity may be more appropriately described as reasoning than as arguing. By analyzing in what respect rhetorical texts can be interpreted as dialogue-based and subject to criteria of Informal Logic, the virtues of rhetorical argumentation in contrast to logic and dialectic emerge.
