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- Title
The Marriage of Pragmatics and Rhetoric.
- Authors
Dascal, Marcelo; Gross, Alan G.
- Abstract
The article discusses marriage of pragmatism and rhetoric. A recent book "Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science," testifies to a crisis in rhetorical theory and rhetorical criticism. The author wonders whether an art whose origin is the Greek city-state and whose practice has been almost exclusively devoted to the production of speeches, can be transformed into an art of interpretation, a hermeneutics of persuasion. The answers in the volume range from the profound skepticism of author Dilip Gaonkar to the robust optimism of author Deirdre McCloskey. In some cases, alternatives are offered: Author William Keith offers a programmatic solution whose origin is in reverse engineering; another author David Kaufer offers a detailed solution whose origin is in artificial intelligence. That no one calls on the achievements of a century of philosophy of language, beginning with philosopher Gottlob Frege, and including philosophers like Bertrand Russell, J.L. Austin, Peter Strawson, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Paul Grice, is a tribute perhaps to the insularity of the academy, the difficult-to-negotiate borders between disciplinary formations.
- Subjects
RHETORIC; PRAGMATISM; CRITICISM; GRICE, Paul; GAONKAR, Dilip; MCCLOSKEY, Deirdre; KEITH, William
- Publication
Philosophy & Rhetoric, 1999, Vol 32, Issue 2, p107
- ISSN
0031-8213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/par.1999.0001