Comparative rhetoric : an historical and cross-cultural introduction /

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Author / Creator:Kennedy, George A. (George Alexander), 1928-
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Description:ix, 238 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2777068
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ISBN:0195109325 (alk. paper)
0195109333 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Rhetoric In Societies Without Writing
  • 1. Rhetoric Among Social Animals
  • 2. Rhetorical Factors in the Early Development of Human Language
  • 3. Rhetoric in Aboriginal Australian Culture
  • 4. Formal Speech in Some Oral Cultures
  • 5. North American Indian Rhetoric
  • Part II. Rhetoric In Ancient Literate Societies
  • 6. Literacy and Rhetoric in the Ancient Near East
  • 7. Rhetoric in Ancient China
  • 8. Rhetoric in Ancient India
  • 9. Rhetoric in Greece and Rome