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Gifted Tongues : High School Debate and Adolescent Culture.

Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with team...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fine, Gary Alan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; One: Learning to Talk; Two: Rites of Arguments; Three: Evidence and the Creation of Truth; Four: In the Round; Five: Our Team; Six: Debate Culture; Seven: Teachers and Coaches; Eight: Gifted Leisure and the Politics of Debate; Nine: Debate and the Adolescent Toolkit; Appendix: Communities of Debate; Notes; Glossary of Debate Terms; Index.