Criticism and Conversational Texts: Rhetorical Bases of Role, Audience, and Style in the Buber-Rogers Dialogue
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1996
Keywords
political philosophy, modern philosophy, specific text, conversational critic, interpersonal dialogue
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142857
Abstract
This essay describes conversation as an ensemble accomplishment that can be illuminated by critics working with specific texts within a rhetorical framework. We first establish dialogue as the key concept for any criticism of conversation, specifying the rhetorical dimensions of interpersonal dialogue. Second, we show how template thinking is particularly dangerous for conversational critics and suggest a research (anti)method, based on a coauthorship, that provides a thoroughgoing dialogical access to texts. Finally, we exemplify dialogic criticism of a conversational text by analyzing the famous 1957 dialogue of philosopher Martin Buber and psychologist Carl Rogers.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Human Studies, v. 19, issue 1, p. 85-118
Scholar Commons Citation
Anderson, Rob and Cissna, Kenneth N., "Criticism and Conversational Texts: Rhetorical Bases of Role, Audience, and Style in the Buber-Rogers Dialogue" (1996). Communication Faculty Publications. 387.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/387
