“I have no doubt that this fine, timely monograph will inform and delight professors and students, cognitive scientist, writers and language enthusiasts alike.” • Esther Pascual, Zheijang University

“The book has the potential to become a future “reference book” and trendsetting work for scholars of the cognitive sciences in both the States and the rest of the world.” • Anders Hougaard, University of Southern Denmark

Minds are rhetorical. From the moment we are born others are shaping our capacity for mental agency. As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition. Each chapter reflects on a different dimension of human thought based on the fundamental proposition that our rhetoric thinks and acts with and through others.

Series: Volume 1, Studies in Linguistic Anthropology

Subject: General Anthropology Sociology

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LC: BF441 .O25 2020

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural; LAN015000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES/Rhetoric; SOC026000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/General