Recovering Argument

<p>This volume presents the best scholarship from the 19th National Communication Association/American Forensic Association Conference on Argumentation which took place July 30-August 2 2015 at Cliff Lodge Snowbird Resort in Alta Utah. The Alta Conference first held in 1979 is the oldest conference in argumentation studies in the world and biennially brings together a lively group of scholars representing a variety of countries with diverse perspectives on the theory and practice of argument. The essays in <i>Recovering Argument</i> invite reflection upon and reconsideration of argumentation’s legacy present status and potential roles in social cultural and political life. Readers will encounter essays that treat the relationship between argumentation and memory historical approaches to argumentation the vitality of public and interpersonal argument argument’s role in leadership discursive and presentational forms of argument and the challenges of difference. Readers also will find these topics addressed from a variety of historical social-scientific and critical-interpretive perspectives.</p>