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Frank, David A.; Bolduc, Michelle – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2010
The New Rhetoric project featured an eleven-year collaboration between Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca and Chaim Perelman, which culminated with their 1958 magnum opus, "Traite de l'argumentation: la nouvelle rhetorique". Scholars have long speculated about Olbrechts-Tyteca's role in the New Rhetoric project and her relationship with Chaim Perelman.…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Cooperation, Rhetorical Theory, Writing Instruction
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Frank, David A. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2007
In this essay, I seek to read the rhetorical theories set forth by Belgians Chaim Perelman and Paul de Man as responses to the Holocaust. To accomplish this aspiration, I draw from Dominick LaCapra's framework for the analysis of trauma and its expression in historical and theoretical texts. Reading the rhetorical theories of Perelman and de Man,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Death, War
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Lu, Xing; Frank, David A. – Western Journal of Communication, 1993
Claims the ancient Chinese had "senses" of rhetoric which reveal a tradition of argumentation that should be recaptured by historians of rhetoric. Seeks to broaden and embellish the portrayal of that rhetoric. (NH)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Higher Education, Language Research, Persuasive Discourse