Dialogue and Rhetoric: (2 Dialogue Studies)

The volume deals with the relationship between dialogue and rhetoric. The actual state of the art in dialogue analysis is characterized by a tendency to overcome the distinction between competence and performance and to combine components from both sides of the dichotomy, in a way which includes rules as well as inferences. The same is true of rhetoric: the guidelines proposed here no longer state that rationality and persuasion are mutually exclusive but suggest that they interact in what might be called the ‘mixed game’. The concept of a dialogic rhetoric thus poses the question of how to integrate the different voices. Part I of the volume assembles several ‘rhetorical paradigms’ which are applied to real-life performance. Part II on ‘rhetoric in the mixed game’ contains a selection of papers which illustrate the interaction of various components. The Round Table discussion in Part III brings proponents of different paradigms face to face with each other and shows how they justify their own positions and present arguments against rival paradigms.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Rhetoric or how to integrate the different voices (by Weigand, Edda); 2. Part I. Rhetorical Paradigms; 3. Rhetoric in the Mixed Game (by Weigand, Edda); 4. The selection of agency as a rhetorical device: Opening up the scene of dialogue through ventriloquism (by Cooren, Francois); 5. Dialogic rhetoric, coauthorship, and moments of meeting (by Cissna, Kenneth N.); 6. The rhetoric of 'dialogue' in metadiscourse: Possibility/impossibility arguments and critical events (by Craig, Robert T.); 7. Rhetoric and ethic of dialog: Can conditions of performance serve as excluding criteria? (by Letourneau, Alain); 8. Common ground and (re)defanging the antagonistic: A paradigm for argumentation as shared inquiry and responsibility (by Emmel, Barbara A.); 9. What is the role of arguments? Fundamental human rights in the age of spin (by Teubert, Wolfgang); 10. Logical and rhetorical rules of debate (by Cattani, Adelino); 11. Rhetoric in a dialectical framework: Fallacies as derailments of strategic manoeuvring (by Eemeren, Frans H. van); 12. Part II. Rhetoric in the Mixed Game: Communicative means, cultural values, and institutional games; 13. Strategic use of Korean honorifics: Functions of 'partner-deference sangdae-nopim' (by Cho, Yongkil); 14. Irony as a rhetorical device in dialogic interaction (by Feller, Sebastian); 15. Political rhetoric in visual images (by Roque, Georges); 16. Sociological concepts and their impact on rhetoric: Japanese language concepts (by Grein, Marion); 17. The rhetorical component of dialogic communication in Banks' annual reports (by Mignini, Marta); 18. Attention-influencing as a rhetorical strategy in German and Turkish Parliamentary debates (by Ozan, Didem); 19. Diatexts of media dilemmas: The rhetorical construction of euthanasia (by Mininni, Giuseppe); 20. Recontextualization of concepts in European legal discourse (by Kjaer, Anne Lise); 21. A court judgment as dialogue (by Cheng, Le); 22. Part III. Round table discussion: Concepts of rhetoric, dialogue and argumentation; 23. Round table discussion; 24. General Index; 25. List of Contributors