Progress, but Slow Going: Public Argument in the Forging of Collective Norms

Lisa S. Villadsen*

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Abstract

Rhetorical argumentation is a craft: collective, processual, and circulating, and it partakes in the indeterminate evolution of public norms. Official apologies can illustrate how rhetorical modalities over time can reflect change in civic sensibilities and effect collective moral reflection and evolution. Rhetorical citizenship, understood as encompassing both critical production and reception of publicly circulating arguments, is a way of conceptualizing the interaction between the individual and the collective in the ongoing discursive formation of the community and the norms that inform it.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRhetoricians on Argumentation
EditorsChristian Kock
Number of pages13
PublisherSpringer Nature
Publication date2022
Pages39-51
ISBN (Print)9783031188015
ISBN (Electronic)9783031188022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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Keywords

  • Celeste Michelle Condit
  • Chaïm Perelman
  • Craft
  • Hans Blumenberg
  • Justin Trudeau
  • Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca
  • Official apologies
  • Public morality
  • Public norms
  • Rhetorical argumentation
  • Rhetorical citizenship

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