Dialogic Rhetoric, Coauthorship, and Moments of Meeting
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2008
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.2.05cis
Abstract
Distinguishing three concepts of dialogue, we describe a dialogic approach to rhetoric that conceives rhetoric as coexperiential, collaborative, constitutive, open, expansive, and both traditional and radical. Further, we offer an emergent approach to studying dialogic rhetoric that draws on both rhetorical criticism and discourse analysis. We then review briefly four empirical projects in which we have studied conversational dialogue or dialogic rhetoric, including a series of studies of the 1957 dialogue between Martin Buber and Carl Rogers, as well as other conversations involving Gregory Bateson, B. F. Skinner, and Rush Limbaugh. We conclude by identifying the implications of our work to scholarship related to the conversations we have studied, to communication theory and practice, to the facilitation of public dialogue, and to the study of dialogic conversations.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Dialogic Rhetoric, Coauthorship, and Moments of Meeting, in E. Weigand (Ed.), Dialogue and Rhetoric, John Benjamins Publishing, p. 39-53
Scholar Commons Citation
Cissna, Kenneth N. and Anderson, Rob, "Dialogic Rhetoric, Coauthorship, and Moments of Meeting" (2008). Communication Faculty Publications. 398.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/398
