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Title Traditions of controversy / edited by Marcelo Dascal, Han-liang Chang.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 309 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Controversies ; v. 4
Controversies ; v. 4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Traditions of Controversy; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Crossing borderlines; I. Ancient traditions; II. Medieval and Early Modern traditions; III. Modern traditions; About the contributors; Index; The series Controversies.
Summary Controversies may be particularly prominent in one or another culture. Yet, there is hardly any culture where they do not exist. This book assumes that the practice of controversy, along with its theorization, constitutes - in each of the cultures and disciplines where it develops - a tradition. Whether there are enough shared elements in these traditions to consider them as, fundamentally, universal or not is something that can only be determined on the basis of a rich sample of controversies and theorizations thereof belonging to different traditions. This is what this volume provides to the.
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Subject Polemics.
Polemics.
Debates and debating.
Debates and debating.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic book.
Added Author Dascal, Marcelo.
Zhang, Hanliang.
Other Form: Print version: Traditions of controversy. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, ©2007 9789027218841 9027218846 (DLC) 2007025142
ISBN 9027291810 (electronic book)
9789027291813 (electronic book)
9789027218841 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9027218846 (hardback ; alkaline paper)