28.4932, Books: Arguing Over Texts: Camper

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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 23:22:12
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Arguing Over Texts: Camper

 


Title: Arguing Over Texts 
Subtitle: The Rhetoric of Interpretation 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/arguing-over-texts-9780190677121 


Author: Martin Camper

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190677121 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

>From the Constitution to the Bible, from literary classics to political sound
bites, our modern lives are filled with numerous texts that govern and
influence our behavior and beliefs. Whether in the courtrooms of our
judiciaries or over our dining room tables, we argue over what these texts
mean as we apply them to our lives. Various schools of hermeneutics offer
theories of how we generally understand the world around us or how to read
certain types of texts to arrive at the correct or best interpretation, but
most neglect the argumentative and persuasive nature of every act of
interpretation.

In Arguing over Texts, Martin Camper presents a rhetorical method for
understanding the types of disagreement people have over the meaning of texts
and the lines of argument they use to resolve those disagreements. Camper's
fresh approach has its roots in the long forgotten interpretive stases,
originally devised by ancient Greek and Roman teachers of rhetoric for
inventing courtroom arguments concerning the meaning of legal documents such
as wills, laws, and contracts. The interpretive stases identify general,
recurring debates over textual meaning and catalogue the lines of reasoning
arguers may employ to support their preferred interpretations. Drawing on
contemporary research in language, persuasion, and cognition, Camper expands
the scope of the interpretive stases to cover textual controversies in
virtually any context. To illustrate the interpretive stases' wide range of
applicability, Arguing over Texts contains examples of interpretive debates
from law, politics, religion, history, and literary criticism. 

Arguing over Texts will appeal to anyone who is interested in analyzing and
constructing interpretive arguments.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature


Written In: English  (eng)

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