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Publication details [#51022]

Bax, Marcel. 2009. Generic evolution. Ritual, rhetoric, and the rise of discursive rationality. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (4) : 780–805.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discursive practice | pragmatics | rationality | rhetoric | ritual

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article deals with the generic evolution of discursive rationality. It is argued that the propensity for or even necessity of argument devising and presentation following the (ritual) altercatio-derived bipartite (scholastic) discourse model continued into the early modern period.