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  title info:
    title: Comparative rhetoric
  title info:
    sub title: an historical and cross-cultural introduction
  title info: title
  name:
    name part: George A. Kennedy
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: George A. Kennedy
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 1998
    date issued: 9999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: und
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 238 p.
    extent: ill.
    extent: 24 cm
  abstract: Comparative Rhetoric is the first book to offer a cross-cultural overview of rhetoric as a universal feature of expression, composition, and communication. It begins with a theory of rhetoric as a form of mental and emotional energy which is transmitted from a speaker or writer to an audience or reader through a speech or text. In the first part of the book, George Kennedy explores analogies to human rhetoric in animal communication, possible rhetorical factors in the origin of human speech, and rhetorical conventions in traditionally oral societies in Australia, the South Pacific, Africa, and the Americas. Topics discussed include forms of reasoning, the function of metaphor, and the forms and uses of formal language. The second part of the book provides an account of rhetoric as understood and practiced in early literate societies in the Near East, China, India, Greece, and Rome, identifying unique or unusual features of Western discourse in comparison to uses elsewhere. The concluding chapter summarizes the results of the study and evaluates the validity of traditional Western rhetorical concepts in describing non-Western rhetoric
  note: George A. Kennedy
  subject:
    topic: Rhetoric; Ancient
  classification: 808
  classification: G347
  identifier: 0195109333
  identifier: 9780195109337
  record info:
    record creation date: 210423
    record identifier: TVU_11139