Rhetorical Minds

Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-669-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 627 g

Reihe: Studies in Linguistic Anthropology

Minds are rhetorical. From the moment we are born others are shaping our capacity for mental agency. As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition. Each chapter reflects on a different dimension of human thought based on the fundamental proposition that our rhetoric thinks and acts with and through others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oakley, Todd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: (Homo Rhetoricus)



Part I: Theoretical Prerequisites

Chapter 1. Starting Points

Chapter 2. Homo Rhetoricus as a Creature of Presence

Chapter 3. Representation and the Semiotic Circuit



Part II: Evolution and Development of Homo Rhetoricus

Chapter 4. Becoming Human: The Evolution of Homo Rhetoricus

Chapter 5. Becoming Human: The Development of Homo Rhetoricus

Chapter 6. The Languaging of Homo Rhetoricus

Part III: Discourse and Social Ontology

Chapter 7. Language in the World of Homo Rhetoricus

Chapter 8. Institutions and Document Acts

Chapter 9. The Lifeworlds of Homo Rhetoricus

Chapter 10. Setting Up for ‘Setting Off’ Homo Rhetoricus

Concluding Remarks

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Oakley, Todd
Todd Oakley is Professor of and Chair of Cognitive Science and Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. His recent publications include Issue 6 of Cognitive Semiotics which he co-edited with Ana Margarida Abrantes.