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The rhetoric of discourse

Chiasm and dialogue in communicology

Abstract

In the classic Greek conception, axiology is the study of values or decisions displayed in behavior (ethics, aesthetics, politics, rhetoric). Whereas, dialogue is the study of discourse or choices displayed in judgement (dialectic, sophistic, rhetoric, maieutic). I examine, in a preliminary way, the dynamics of human communicology (decision choices) wherein the method of semiotic phenomenology accounts for Husserl’s (1929; 1933) maxim that “subjectivity is intersubjectivity” (155). The primary methodology for this analysis is the chiasm logic of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, identifying middle voice [G. gērys] as the essence of the human.

Abstract

In the classic Greek conception, axiology is the study of values or decisions displayed in behavior (ethics, aesthetics, politics, rhetoric). Whereas, dialogue is the study of discourse or choices displayed in judgement (dialectic, sophistic, rhetoric, maieutic). I examine, in a preliminary way, the dynamics of human communicology (decision choices) wherein the method of semiotic phenomenology accounts for Husserl’s (1929; 1933) maxim that “subjectivity is intersubjectivity” (155). The primary methodology for this analysis is the chiasm logic of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, identifying middle voice [G. gērys] as the essence of the human.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction ix
  5. Ethics in dialogue 1
  6. Impassible peace 25
  7. Proposal for a typology of listening markers and listening request markers 45
  8. The ethics of intercultural dialogue 77
  9. Differing versions of dialogic aptitude 127
  10. An interlocutory logic approach of a case of professional ethics 149
  11. Dialogue and ethics in the library 179
  12. Agents of awakening 199
  13. The rhetoric of discourse 215
  14. Fragments, limbs, and dreadful accidents 245
  15. Dialogic ethics 265
  16. Index 283
Dialogic Ethics
This chapter is in the book Dialogic Ethics
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.30.09lan

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction ix
  5. Ethics in dialogue 1
  6. Impassible peace 25
  7. Proposal for a typology of listening markers and listening request markers 45
  8. The ethics of intercultural dialogue 77
  9. Differing versions of dialogic aptitude 127
  10. An interlocutory logic approach of a case of professional ethics 149
  11. Dialogue and ethics in the library 179
  12. Agents of awakening 199
  13. The rhetoric of discourse 215
  14. Fragments, limbs, and dreadful accidents 245
  15. Dialogic ethics 265
  16. Index 283
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