My interests range within the elephantine and manifold domain of Argumentation Theory. It sounds like (and sometimes comes to be) a big pill to swallow, so I figured that arranging thoughts in the continuum of a blog might help. Plus, I find blogging a good reading incentive.
I will at times import some insights from other fields (logic, pragmatics, linguistics etc.) but only on the basis that they link to my primary field of interest.
I shall provide as many book reviews as I can, for I want me and you to talk the same talk. However, in some periods, my writing rate falls pretty low, clashing to zero not to very seldom. In the doldrums, articles which I personally tag as “wiggy” will most certainly appear. I shall not be held responsible for the tedious ones.
If you want to see my readings or discuss some of them, I have compiled a Bibliography.
If you want to donate, just click … no, I was kidding.
As a tall tale, I think the first first first paragraph that I read regarding this field was this starting paragraph from one of Wayne Booth’s books:
In 1960, I was at a post-lecture reception in Oxford. Chatting over drinks with a don, I asked him what subject he taught.
‘‘Chiefly eighteenth-century literature. What is your field?’’
‘‘Basically it’s rhetoric, though I’m officially in ‘English.’ I’m trying to
complete a book that will be called The Rhetoric of Fiction.’’
‘‘Rhetoric!’’ He scowled, turned his back, and strode away. (Preface to Booth, 2004)
By the way: citations are links to the Bibliography. Click them whenever leery.
So go on, leaf through, have fun!
