Law, Rhetoric, and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture - Couverture souple

Charland, Maurice; Dorland, Michael

 
9780802081193: Law, Rhetoric, and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0802081193 ISBN 13 : 9780802081193
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2002

Synopsis

In Rhetoric, Irony, and Law in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture, Michael Dorland and Maurice Charland examine how, over the roughly 400-year period since the encounter of First Peoples with Europeans in North America, rhetorical or discursive fields took form in politics and constitution-making, in the formation of a public sphere, and in education and language. The study looks at how these fields changed over time within the French regime, the British regime, and in Canada since 1867, and how they converged through trial and error into a Canadian civil culture.

The authors establish a triangulation of fields of discourse formed by law (as a technical discourse system), rhetoric (as a public discourse system), and irony (as a means of accessing the public realm as the key pillars upon which a civil culture in Canada took form) in order to scrutinize the process of creating a civil culture. By presenting case studies ranging from the legal implications of the transition from French to English law to the continued importance of the Louis Riel case and trial, the authors provide detailed analyses of how communication practices form a common institutional culture.

As scholars of communication and rhetoric, Dorland and Charland have written a challenging examination of the history of Canadian governance and the central role played by legal and other discourses in the formation of civil culture.

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À propos de l?auteur

Maurice Charland is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802081193
ISBN 13 
9780802081193
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
432
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  080204283X ISBN 13 :  9780802042835
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2002
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