Introduction to Rhetorical Theory

, by Hauser, Gerard A.

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Summary

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

Preface

xiii

The Eventfulness of Rhetoric

(14)

Communication and Rhetoric

(1)

Communication Processes and Rhetorical Events

(8)

Things, Events, and Processes

(1)

Continuity and Discountinuity

(2)

Characteristics of Rhetorical Eventfulness

(4)

The Rhetorical Domain

(2)

Summary

(2)

Rhetorical Thinking

(24)

Rhetoric as a Social Practice

(15)

Narrative

(2)

Dialectic

(2)

Rhetoric

(8)

Rhetoric as a Method

(4)

Summary

(3)

Rhetorical Opportunities

(22)

Defining the Situation

(2)

Rhetorical Situations

(5)

Constituent Elements of Rhetorical Situations

(4)

Exigence

(1)

Audience

(2)

Constraints

(1)

Life Cycles and Fitting Responses

(7)

Life Cycles

(5)

Fitting Response

(1)

Rhetor's Intentions

(2)

Summary

(1)

Making Commitments through Rhetoric

(14)

Expressive versus Other-Directed Talk

(1)

Argument and Self-Risk

(3)

Unilateral and Bilateral Arguments

(2)

Rhetoric and the Self

(5)

Reflecting a Self

(2)

Evoking a Self

(1)

Maintaining a Self

(1)

Destroying a Self

(1)

Summary

(2)

Public Judgment

(24)

Rhetorical Characteristics of Public Problems

(6)

Ownership of Public Problems

(1)

Responsibility: Causal and Political

(1)

The Organization of Public Consciousness

(2)

Publics Theory

(13)

Publics

(3)

Public Spheres

(7)

Public Opinion

(2)

Summary

(3)

Finding Ideas

(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

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