Download or read book Dialectic and Rhetoric written by F.H. van Eemeren and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses two distinct perspectives on the analysis of argumentative discourse: the dialectical and the rhetorical perspective. It intends to open a thorough discussion of the two approaches, their commonalities and differences, and the ways in which, in some combination or other, they can be used to further the development of sound analytic tools for dealing with argumentation.