Coping with Failure: Therapeutic Uses of Rhetoric (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) - Hardcover

Payne, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0872495930 ISBN 13: 9780872495937

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 1989

Synopsis

Investigates the importance of failure to our ways of talking about and resolving problems through human communication. Payne (speech, U. of South Tampa) argues that the motivational logic of failure is a circular one in which we are socialized to accept and respond to feelings and situations as "failures," and we are disposed by the rhetoric in our culture to seek out and employ "therapeutic" strategies of communication. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Synopsis

Investigates the importance of failure to our ways of talking about and resolving problems through human communication. Payne (speech, U. of South Tampa) argues that the motivational logic of failure is a circular one in which we are socialized to accept and respond to feelings and situations as "failures," and we are disposed by the rhetoric in ou

Edition details

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872495930
• ISBN 13: 9780872495937
• Binding: Hardcover