ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab &amp; Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab &amp; Mastering products. Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab &amp; Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the seller before completing your purchase. Used or rental books If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code. Access codes Access codes that are purchased from sellers other than Pearson carry a higher risk of being either the wrong ISBN or a previously redeemed code. Check with the seller prior to purchase. -- Uses a conceptual framework to discuss argumentation This text uses a conceptual framework involving three types of claims (fact, value, policy) that are advanced by forms of reasoning (definition, example, cause, sign, etc.). This framework describes a wider variety of arguments. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: <ul>
<li> Understand basic concepts in argumentation theory, criticism, and practice </li>
<li> Make good arguments as well as evaluate the arguments they encounter </li> </ul>

Argumentation: Keeping Faith with Reason

Politics & Social Sciences

Schiappa, Edward

Nordin, John P.

Social Sciences

Pearson

ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab &amp; Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab &amp; Mastering products. Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab &amp; Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the seller before completing your purchase. Used or rental books If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code. Access codes Access codes that are purchased from sellers other than Pearson carry a higher risk of being either the wrong ISBN or a previously redeemed code. Check with the seller prior to purchase. -- Uses a conceptual framework to discuss argumentation This text uses a conceptual framework involving three types of claims (fact, value, policy) that are advanced by forms of reasoning (definition, example, cause, sign, etc.). This framework describes a wider variety of arguments. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: <ul>
<li> Understand basic concepts in argumentation theory, criticism, and practice 
</li>
<li> Make good arguments as well as evaluate the arguments they encounter 
</li> </ul>

Argumentation: Keeping Faith with Reason Plus NEW MySearchLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package

In this provocative book, Edward Schiappa argues that rhetorical theory did not originate with the Sophists in the fifth century B.C.E, as is commonly believed, but came into being a century later. Schiappa examines closely the terminology of the Sophists―such as Gorgias and Protagoras―and of their reporters and opponents―especially Plato and Aristotle―and contends that the terms and problems that make up what we think of as rhetorical theory had not yet formed in the era of the early Sophists. His revision of rhetoric’s early history enables him to change the way we read both the Sophists and Aristotle and Plato. Schiappa contends, for example, that Plato probably coined the Greek word for rhetoric; that Gorgias is a “prose rhapsode” whose style does not deserve the criticism it has received; that Isocrates deliberately never uses the Greek work for "rhetoric" and that our habit of pitting him versus Plato as “rhetoric versus philosophy” is problematic; and that Aristotle "disciplined" the genre of epideictic in a way that robs the genre of its political importance. His book will be of great interest to students of classics, communications, philosophy, and rhetoric.

The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

This book contributes to the history of classical rhetoric by focusing on how key terms helped to conceptualize and organize the study and teaching of oratory. David Timmerman and Edward Schiappa demonstrate that the intellectual and political history of Greek rhetorical theory can be enhanced by a better understanding of the emergence of "terms of art" in texts about persuasive speaking and argumentation. The authors provide a series of studies to support their argument. They describe Plato's disciplining of dialgesthai into the Art of Dialectic, Socrates' alternative vision of philosophia, and Aristotle's account of demegoria and symboule as terms for political deliberation. The authors also revisit competing receptions of the Rhetoric to Alexander. Additionally, they examine the argument over when the different parts of oration were formalized in rhetorical theory, illustrating how an "old school" focus on vocabulary can provide fresh perspectives on persistent questions.

Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory and the Disciplining of Discourse

Timmerman, David M.

Classics

Cambridge University Press

Beyond Representational Correctness: Rethinking Criticism of Popular Media

Argues that representational correctness can cause critics to miss the positive work that films and television shows can perform in reducing prejudice. Representational correctness describes an implicit set of norms, including accuracy, purity, and innocence, that guide much of popular media criticism. In this provocative book, Edward Schiappa argues that representational correctness is unproductive, antagonistic to audience research, and typically disconnected from relevant social psychological or mass communication theories. Analyzing criticisms of such television shows as Will &amp; Grace and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Schiappa argues that the norms of representational correctness can cause critics to miss the positive work such shows perform in reducing prejudice. He contends that too many critics focus on isolated scenes or interactions that perpetuate a stereotype without considering the larger work that films and television shows can accomplish. Schiappa concludes that pop culture critics need to engage in more audience research, draw from relevant research in social psychology, praise positive representations and programming, and promote critical media literacy in both classroom and public pedagogy.

Humor & Entertainment

State Univ of New York Pr

State University of New York Press

Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning (Rhetorical Philosophy & Theory)

In Defining Reality, Edward Schiappa argues that definitional disputes should be treated less as philosophical questions of is” and more as sociopolitical questions of ought.” Instead of asking What is X?” he advocates that definitions be considered as proposals for shared knowledge and institutional norms, as in What should count as X in context Y, given our needs and interests?” Covering a broad scope of argument in rhetorical theory, as well as in legal, medical, scientific, and environmental debates, Schiappa shows the act of defining to be a specialized and learned behavior, and therefore one that can be studied and improved. In response to theories that deem discourse to be persuasive, the author asserts that all discourse is definitive discourse that contributes to our construction of a shared reality. Defining Reality sheds light on our methods of creating common truths through language and argumentation and forces us to reconsider the contexts, limitations, and adaptability of our definitions. Hinging on a synthesis of arguments regarding the significance of definitional practices, the book is bolstered by a series of case studies of debates about rape, euthanasia, abortion, and political and environmental issues. These case studies ground Schiappa’s concepts in reality and delineate the power of public discourse within legal contexts. Ranging widely among disciplines from philosophy and classical philology to constitutional law and cognitive psychology, this study substantially contributes to the scholarship of rhetoric and argumentation, particularly as they function in the realm of public discourse.

Southern Illinois University Press

In Defining Reality, Edward Schiappa argues that definitional disputes should be treated less as philosophical questions of “is”and more as sociopolitical questions of “ought.” Instead of asking “What is X?” he advocates that definitions be considered as proposals for shared knowledge and institutional norms, as in “What should count as X in context Y, given our needs and interests?” 
Covering a broad scope of argument in rhetorical theory, as well as in legal, medical, scientific, and environmental debates, Schiappa shows the act of defining to be a specialized and learned behavior, and therefore one that can be studied and improved. In response to theories that deem discourse to be persuasive, the author asserts that all discourse is definitive discourse that contributes to our construction of a shared reality. 
Defining Reality sheds light on our methods of creating common truths through language and argumentation and forces us to reconsider the contexts, limitations, and adaptability of our definitions. Hinging on a synthesis of arguments regarding the significance of definitional practices, the book is bolstered by a series of case studies of debates about rape, euthanasia, abortion, and political and environmental issues. These case studies ground Schiappa’s concepts in reality and delineate the power of public discourse within legal contexts. Ranging widely among disciplines from philosophy and classical philology to constitutional law and cognitive psychology, this study substantially contributes to the scholarship of rhetoric and argumentation, particularly as they function in the realm of public discourse.

Edward Schiappa holds the Paul W. Frenzel Chair of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he is professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Communication Studies.

Protagoras and Logos: A Study in Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Univ of South Carolina Pr

All of Jebb's Isocrates text & notes from the Attic Orators accompanied by the annotated Isocrates Greek text from his companion Selections; all newly introduced, annotated and formatted. The most complete appreciation of Isocrates ever published in English.

Jebb's Isocrates: Newly Edited

Laurén, Giles

Sophron Editor

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Argumentation: Keeping Faith with Reason

Argumentation: Keeping Faith with Reason Plus NEW MySearchLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package

The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece

Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory and the Disciplining of Discourse

Beyond Representational Correctness: Rethinking Criticism of Popular Media

Beyond Representational Correctness: Rethinking Criticism of Popular Media

Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning (Rhetorical Philosophy & Theory)

Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning (Rhetorical Philosophy & Theory)

Protagoras and Logos: A Study in Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)

Jebb's Isocrates: Newly Edited