Introduction to Rhetorical Theory

by Hauser, Gerard A.

• ISBN13: 9781577662211
• ISBN10: 1577662210
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Summary

This book makes a rhetorical approach to human communication accessible to readers.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
The Eventfulness of Rhetoric	1	(14)
Communication and Rhetoric	2	(1)
Communication Processes and Rhetorical Events	3	(8)
Things, Events, and Processes	4	(1)
Continuity and Discountinuity	5	(2)
Characteristics of Rhetorical Eventfulness	7	(4)
The Rhetorical Domain	11	(2)
Summary	13	(2)
Rhetorical Thinking	15	(24)
Rhetoric as a Social Practice	17	(15)
Narrative	20	(2)
Dialectic	22	(2)
Rhetoric	24	(8)
Rhetoric as a Method	32	(4)
Summary	36	(3)
Rhetorical Opportunities	39	(22)
Defining the Situation	40	(2)
Rhetorical Situations	42	(5)
Constituent Elements of Rhetorical Situations	47	(4)
Exigence	47	(1)
Audience	48	(2)
Constraints	50	(1)
Life Cycles and Fitting Responses	51	(7)
Life Cycles	52	(5)
Fitting Response	57	(1)
Rhetor's Intentions	58	(2)
Summary	60	(1)
Making Commitments through Rhetoric	61	(14)
Expressive versus Other-Directed Talk	62	(1)
Argument and Self-Risk	63	(3)
Unilateral and Bilateral Arguments	66	(2)
Rhetoric and the Self	68	(5)
Reflecting a Self	68	(2)
Evoking a Self	70	(1)
Maintaining a Self	71	(1)
Destroying a Self	72	(1)
Summary	73	(2)
Public Judgment	75	(24)
Rhetorical Characteristics of Public Problems	77	(6)
Ownership of Public Problems	79	(1)
Responsibility: Causal and Political	80	(1)
The Organization of Public Consciousness	81	(2)
Publics Theory	83	(13)
Publics	84	(3)
Public Spheres	87	(7)
Public Opinion	94	(2)
Summary	96	(3)
Finding Ideas	99	(20)
The Problem of Invention	100	(3)
Creativity and Inventiveness	103	(5)
Invention in Purposive Discourse	108	(2)
Topical Thinking	110	(2)
Topical Reasoning and Relevant Discourse	112	(6)
Summary	118	(1)
Using Good Reasons to Persuade	119	(26)
Internal and External Appeals	120	(1)
Paradigms and Enthymemes	121	(4)
Paradigms	121	(3)
Enthymemes	124	(1)
Enthymemes and Good Reasons	125	(3)
Good Reasons and Issues	128	(11)
Detecting a Case	129	(1)
Determining Issues	130	(3)
Classifying Issues	133	(6)
Stasis in Everyday Life	139	(4)
Summary	143	(2)
Persuasiveness of Character	145	(20)
The Problem of Authority	146	(1)
Ethos Developed in Message	147	(2)
Ethos and the Habits of Life	149	(10)
Excellence and Habits	149	(5)
Attributes of Character	154	(4)
Interpreting Ethos	158	(1)
Ethos and Ethical Appeal	159	(4)
Summary	163	(2)
The Passions	165	(16)
Pathos as a Pattern of Response	168	(2)
Pathos and Persuasive Reasoning	170	(7)
Common Misconceptions	170	(1)
Emotions Reflect Judgments	170	(3)
Evoking Emotions	173	(4)
Basic Emotions	177	(2)
Summary	179	(2)
Narrative	181	(20)
Narrative Framing	184	(3)
Lived Experience as Story	187	(6)
Plot	189	(3)
Narrative Quest	192	(1)
Narrative Rationality	193	(4)
Narrative Probability	195	(1)
Narrative Fidelity	196	(1)
Voice	197	(2)
Summary	199	(2)
Acting with Language	201	(18)
Action and Motion	201	(1)
Humans Act with Language	202	(7)
Dramatistic Assumptions	203	(3)
Presentation versus Representation	206	(1)
Dramatism	207	(2)
Motives and Action	209	(3)
Rhetoric and Motives	212	(5)
Identification	213	(1)
Misidentification	214	(1)
Vocabulary of Motives	215	(2)
Summary	217	(2)
Experiencing Meaning in Rhetoric	219	(24)
Meaning and Context	220	(2)
Dynamics of Meaning	222	(8)
Meanings Are Mediated	224	(2)
Language Usage Is Experiential	226	(1)
Perceptual Patterns Emerge	226	(1)
Language Usage Contains Inherent Frameworks	227	(1)
Meaning Emerges from the Interaction of Symbols	228	(2)
Rhetorical Applications	230	(6)
Within an Utterance	230	(4)
Extended Verbal Contexts	234	(1)
External Contexts	235	(1)
Metaphor	236	(5)
Summary	241	(2)
Rhetorical Form as Strategy	243	(20)
Structure in the Large	245	(2)
Structures Are Basic to Perception	245	(2)
Perception and Structure in the Large	247	(1)
Structure and Strategy	247	(4)
Structure and Strategic Choice	248	(1)
Strategizing with Form	249	(2)
Structures Reveal Motives	251	(5)
Shaping Audience Perceptions	256	(5)
Summary	261	(2)
Strategic Forms of Argument Structures	263	(22)
Aristotle's Syllogistic Structure	264	(1)
The Toulmin Model of Warranted Assent	265	(4)
Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's Associative and Dissociative Structures	269	(7)
Quasi-logical Arguments	270	(2)
Reality-Structure Arguments	272	(3)
Dissociation of Concepts	275	(1)
Rhetorical Structures of Dramatic Enactment	276	(3)
Scenic Structures as Arguments	279	(3)
Summary	282	(3)
Afterword: Inviting Rhetoric	285	(2)
Notes	287	(10)
Index	297