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Recovering Argument
About This Book
This volume presents the best scholarship from the 19th National Communication Association/American Forensic Association Conference on Argumentation, which took place July 30-August 2, 2015, at Cliff Lodge, Snowbird Resort, in Alta, Utah. The Alta Conference, first held in 1979, is the oldest conference in argumentation studies in the world and biennially brings together a lively group of scholars, representing a variety of countries, with diverse perspectives on the theory and practice of argument. The essays in Recovering Argument invite reflection upon and reconsideration of argumentation's legacy, present status, and potential roles in social, cultural, and political life. Readers will encounter essays that treat the relationship between argumentation and memory, historical approaches to argumentation, the vitality of public and interpersonal argument, argument's role in leadership, discursive and presentational forms of argument, and the challenges of difference. Readers also will find these topics addressed from a variety of historical, social-scientific, and critical-interpretive perspectives.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Recovering Argument: An Introduction
- Keynote Address
- Spotlight Panel
- PART I Recovering Argument in History
- PART II Recovering Argument in Public/Politics
- PART III Recovering Argument in Theory and Criticism
- The Review and Selection Process