Generic evolution. Ritual, rhetoric, and the rise of discursive rationality

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 780-805

  Bax, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Cognitive cultural change; Dialogue analysis; Rationalization; Rhetoric; Ritual

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449085024     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.09.048     Document Type: Article

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