PART TWO: Postmodern Perspectives: Social Rhetorics and Political Action.

An essay about social rhetorics and its relationship with political action is presented. The author examines the analyses of disciplinary directions to political programs advocating social change by theorists Lester Faigley, C. H. Knoblauch and James Berlin. He cites that Faigley has outlined a disc...

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Publicado en:Discourse Studies In Honor of James L. Kinneavy pp. 91 - 106
Autor principal: Ruszkiewicz, John J.
Formato: Essay
Publicado: Digitalia Publishing Corp. 1989
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Sumario:An essay about social rhetorics and its relationship with political action is presented. The author examines the analyses of disciplinary directions to political programs advocating social change by theorists Lester Faigley, C. H. Knoblauch and James Berlin. He cites that Faigley has outlined a disciplinary structure showing an inevitable conflict between a discredited traditional pedagogy and an alternative based in contemporary theory. He suggests that the social constructionist position precludes the privileging of social or political arrangements.