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Title Traditions of controversy / edited by Marcelo Dascal, Han-liang Chang
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 309 pages) : illustrations
Series Controversies ; v. 4
Controversies ; v. 4.
Contents Traditions of Controversy; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Crossing borderlines; I. Ancient traditions; II. Medieval and Early Modern traditions; III. Modern traditions; About the contributors; Index; The series Controversies
Summary Controversies may be particularly prominent in one or another culture. Yet, there is hardly any culture where they do not exist. This book assumes that the practice of controversy, along with its theorization, constitutes - in each of the cultures and disciplines where it develops - a tradition. Whether there are enough shared elements in these traditions to consider them as, fundamentally, universal or not is something that can only be determined on the basis of a rich sample of controversies and theorizations thereof belonging to different traditions. This is what this volume provides to the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Polemics.
Debates and debating.
debates.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Speech.
Debates and debating
Polemics
Form Electronic book
Author Dascal, Marcelo
Zhang, Hanliang
LC no. 2007025142
ISBN 9027291810
9789027291813
1282152475
9781282152472
9786612152474
6612152478