Comparative rhetoric : an historical and cross-cultural introduction

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Comparative rhetoric : an historical and cross-cultural introduction

George A. Kennedy

Oxford University Press, 1998

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780195109320

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Offering a cross-cultural overview of rhetoric as a universal feature of expression and communication. The author explores analogies to human rhetoric in animal communication, rhetorical factors in the origin of human speech, and rhetorical conventions in traditionally oral societies around the world. The second part of the book discusses rhetoric as understood and practiced in early literate cultures, seeking to identify what is unique or unusual in the Western tradition.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195109337

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This is the first book to offer a cross-cultural overview of rhetoric as a universal feature of expression and communication. The author explores analogies to human rhetoric in animal communication, rhetorical factors in the origin of human speech, and rhetorical conventions in traditionally oral societies around the world. The second part of the book discusses rhetoric as understood and practised in early literate cultures, seeking to identify what is unique or unusual in the western tradition.

Table of Contents

PART I: RHETORIC IN SOCIETIES WITHOUT WRITING 1. Rhetoric Among Social Animals 2. Rhetorical Factors in the Early Development of Human Language 3. Rhetoric in Aboriginal Australian Culture 4. Formal Speech in Some Oral Cultures 5. North American Indian Rhetoric PART II: RHETORIC IN ANCIENT LITERATE SOCIETIES 6. Literacy and Rhetoric in the Ancient Near East 7. Rhetoric in Ancient China 8. Rhetoric in Ancient India 9. Rhetoric in Greece and Rome

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