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题名/责任者:

After rhetoric : the study of discourse beyond language and culture / Stephen R Yarbrough.

出版发行项:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2016.

ISBN:

9780809335190 (paperback)

载体形态项:

ix, 271 pages ; 23 cm.

个人责任者:

Yarbrough, Stephen R., author.

论题主题:

Discourse analysis.

论题主题:

Language and culture.

论题主题:

Communication.

论题主题:

Rhetoric.

中图法分类号:

H0-05

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-265) and index.

摘要附注:

"Aware that categorical thinking imposes restrictions on the ways we communicate, Stephen R. Yarbrough proposes discourse studies as an alternative to rhetoric and philosophy, both of which are structuralistic systems of inquiry.Discourse studies, Yarbrough argues, does not support the idea that languages, cultures, or conceptual schemes in general adequately describe linguistic competence. He asserts that a belief in languages and cultures "feeds a false dichotomy: either we share the same codes and conventions, achieving community but risking exclusivism, or we proliferate differences, achieving choice and freedom but risking fragmentation and incoherence." Discourse studies, he demonstrates, works around this dichotomy.Drawing on philosopher Donald Davidson, Yarbrough establishes the idea that community can be a consequence of communication but is not a prerequisite for it. By disassociating our thinking from conceptual schemes, we can avoid the problems that come with believing in an abstract structure that predates any utterance.Yarbrough also draws on Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogism to define how utterances operate in life and to show how utterances are involved with power and how power relates to understanding. His discussion of Michel Meyer's problematology treats the questions implied by a statement as the meaning of the statement.Yarbrough introduces readers to a credible theoretical framework for focusing on discourse rather than on conceptual schemes that surround it and to the potential advantages of our using this approach in daily life"--Provided by publisher.

摘要附注:

"Drawing on philosopher Donald Davidson, Yarbrough establishes the idea that community can be a consequence of communication but is not a prerequisite for it. By disassociating our thinking from conceptual schemes, we can avoid the problems that come with believing in an abstract structure that predates any utterance"--Provided by publisher.

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