Rhetorical Minds : : Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion / / Todd Oakley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Oakley, Todd,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Linguistic Anthropology ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 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. The Evolution and Development of Homo Rhetoricus --; Chapter 4. The Evolution of Homo Rhetoricus --; Chapter 5. 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. Homo Rhetoricus and the Mark of the Cognitive --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789206708; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789206708?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Todd Oakley.

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.