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El Omari, Laila Muhammad.

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Discovering a discipline: A philosophical hermeneutic reading of composition studies.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Discovering a discipline: A philosophical hermeneutic reading of composition studies./
Author:	El Omari, Laila Muhammad.
Description:	430 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-06, Section: A, page: 2285.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-06A.
Subject:	Language, Rhetoric and Composition. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9978886
ISBN:	0599848847

Discovering a discipline: A philosophical hermeneutic reading of composition studies.
El Omari, Laila Muhammad.

Discovering a discipline: A philosophical hermeneutic reading of composition studies. - 430 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-06, Section: A, page: 2285.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2000.

This dissertation attempts to write a new map of composition studies. It starts, in Chapter One, by outlining previous maps (namely, those written by Berlin, Bizzell, Gere, Faigley, Knoblauch, and North) and critiquing them. Then, Chapter Two provides a re-reading of the same categories in order to account for the complex relationships between the different schools these maps present to us. While previous maps show schools as extreme opposites that cannot meet, the mission of this dissertation is to present each approach/school as a necessary part of the whole that constitutes the field. The assumption here is that no one school is all theoretically or pedagogically independent, nor can it be a single, self-contained whole. Rather, any school/approach is a dynamic movable entity that always affects and is affected by others. To achieve this desired reading, I have borrowed concepts and analyses from philosophical hermeneutics, particularly, as developed in the works of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. A few concepts are particularly important for my purposes here. These include Heidegger's 'idle talk,' 'situatedness,' 'thrownness,' 'forestructures,' and 'projection'; and Gadamer's 'tradition,' 'prejudices,' 'effective-history,' 'dialogue,' and 'fusion of horizons.' In order to define the diverse interests, concerns, issues and topics on which composition scholars have written, I have surveyed and reviewed articles that appeared in thirteen the major journals over the past twelve years---1988 to 1999. The review also covers the releases of major publishing houses. The electronic database ERIC has been a major source of information, as well. The survey highlights the origins of thoughts circulating among compositionists in different academic disciplines. Hence, the proposed map defines eight major categories: literature, classical rhetoric, philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, computers, natural sciences, and social/cultural studies. Chapters Three to Ten detail the effects of these disciplines on the field. The final chapter suggests hermeneutic dialogue as a remedy to overcome homelessness and tensions in composition studies.

ISBN: 0599848847Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019205
Language, Rhetoric and Composition.

Discovering a discipline: A philosophical hermeneutic reading of composition studies.
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