Arguing and Thinking

Author: Michael Billig
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0521339871

Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology (European Monographs in Social Psychology)

Arguing and Thinking is an entertaining and scholarly exposition of ideas of rhetoric - from Classical times to the nineteenth century - viewed as social psychological theories. Get Arguing and Thinking diet books 2013 for free.
It is self-confessedly unorthodox. Social psychologists may probe experimentally the foundations of 'attitude-change' or 'persuasive communication', but in so doing, Michael Billig claims in his Introduction, 'they are continuing to think about the same sort of issues as those which filled the contents of Aristotle's Rhetoric, or Cicero's Orator, or Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory'. He is especially concerned to point out the relations between thinking and arguing, and suggests that the ability to contradict is one of the most important mental faculties. The argumentative Check Arguing and Thinking our best diet books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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