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This handbook brings together top scholars and researchers from across the disciplines who are doing work in rhetorical studies. The Handbook addresses and explores fundamental issues and pivotal questions about the role of rhetoric in history and in today's society. The international list of contributors contains scholars from composition, speech communication, English, philosophy, education, sociology, African-American studies, and so forth. It is divided into six sections: History, Theory / Concepts, Pedagogy, Dimensions of Rhetoric Practice, Analysis of Criticism, and New Directions.
Historiography and the Study of Rhetoric
Historiography and the Study of Rhetoric
Historiography is the critical study of the assumptions, principles, and purposes that have informed a historical account—in our case here, of rhetoric. A good description of the methods that a historian might use to create a history of rhetoric was offered by Stephen M. North, who drew ...
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