Gifted Tongues : : High School Debate and Adolescent Culture / / Gary Alan Fine.

Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with team...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2001
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ; 46
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • One. Learning to Talk
  • Two. Rites of Arguments
  • Three. Evidence and the Creation of Truth
  • Four. In the Round
  • Five. Our Team
  • Six. Debate Culture
  • Seven. Teachers and Coaches
  • Eight. Gifted Leisure and the Politics of Debate
  • Nine. Debate and the Adolescent Toolkit
  • Appendix. Communities of Debate
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Debate Terms
  • Index