The acoustics of argumentation and advocacy

Abstract

The “Acoustics of Argumentation and Advocacy” claims that sound offers us a new starting point to rethink argumentative form (structure), flow (how it unfolds in time), and force (the effects). starting with sound supplies new ways to theorize how a form of reasoning escapes linguistic explicability, how a dialectical exchange of reasons happens concurrently, and how a medium of exchange affects bodies. This essay situates the special issue on sound within the broader intellectual currents in the academy that pool into the study of argumentation.