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Fields of Rhetoric: Inquiry, communication, and learning

Abstract This article examines the disciplinary status and experiential underpinnings of C S. Peirce’s philosophical rhetoric.The first part explores the relationship between grammar and rhetoric in the context of Peirce’s theory of signs. Next, a possible tension in Peirce’s conception of the scope and function of rhetoric is identified, and a resolution is proposed.The field of rh etorical research is then provisionally characterised as spanning philosophical studies of communication, learning, and methods of inquiry. Rather than being a secondary application that the grammarian can ignore, the complex rhetorical field can be meaningfully construed as both the pre-theoretical starting point and the principal theoretical end of philosophical semeiotic. In the final part of the article, it is argued that the aim of Peirce’s pursuit of rhetoric ought to be the improvement of semiotic habits, and this goal is construed as the third and highest conception of learning furnished by his philosophy. Further, it ...