Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture: 8 (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)

by Gary Alan Fine (Author)

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  2001

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  Seeking to understand adolescents as social actors, this work considers the benefits and drawbacks of the debating experience. It analyzes the training of debaters in rapid-fire speech, rules of logical argumentation, the strategic use of evidence, and how this training instills the core values of such American institutions as law and politics.