Comparative Rhetoric

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Comparative Rhetoric is written by George A. Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195109333 (ISBN 10) and 9780195109337 (ISBN 13).

In the first part of the book, George Kennedy explores analogies to human rhetoric in animal communication, possible rhetorical factors in the origin of human speech, and rhetorical conventions in traditionally oral societies in Australia, the South Pacific, Africa, and the Americas. Topics discussed include forms of reasoning, the function of metaphor, and the forms and uses of formal language. The second part of the book provides an account of rhetoric as understood and practiced in early literate societies in the Near East, China, India, Greece, and Rome, identifying unique or unusual features of Western discourse in comparison to uses elsewhere.