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Journal of the History of Ideas, 1990
One of the remarkable features of the second half of our century is the revival of an interest in rhetoric, always alleged to be the art of persuasion not by truth or reason or any other authority but by a number of irrational, psychologically effective, devices, which an earlier more rational age might have dismissed as irrelevant tricks.
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One of the remarkable features of the second half of our century is the revival of an interest in rhetoric, always alleged to be the art of persuasion not by truth or reason or any other authority but by a number of irrational, psychologically effective, devices, which an earlier more rational age might have dismissed as irrelevant tricks.
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Philosophy & Rhetoric, 2015
ABSTRACTThe problem St. Augustine confronts in the Confessions is fundamentally one of rhetoric: God should be singularly desirable, yet rhetoric seems necessary to motivate our pursuit of him. Religion participates in the relative marketplace of rhetoric, where ideals need to be authorized because they lack a self-sufficient rationale.
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ABSTRACTThe problem St. Augustine confronts in the Confessions is fundamentally one of rhetoric: God should be singularly desirable, yet rhetoric seems necessary to motivate our pursuit of him. Religion participates in the relative marketplace of rhetoric, where ideals need to be authorized because they lack a self-sufficient rationale.
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Semiotics, Rhetoric and Composition-Rhetoric
2020 International Conference on Modern Education and Information Management (ICMEIM), 2020This paper, focusing on the study of rhetoric and composition-rhetoric, not only describes the historical origin, the nature, the basic elements, and multi-modality of rhetorical writing, but also explores the relationship between semiotics and linguistics, the relationship between semiotics and rhetoric and the relationship between semiotics and ...
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2020
This chapter offers an overview of the evidence for the Epicurean views on the technical status and utility of rhetoric. These views are broadly consistent with the School’s recommendation that the wise minimize engagement in most aspects of civic life.
Howard Burton, Quentin Skinner
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This chapter offers an overview of the evidence for the Epicurean views on the technical status and utility of rhetoric. These views are broadly consistent with the School’s recommendation that the wise minimize engagement in most aspects of civic life.
Howard Burton, Quentin Skinner
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The Rhetoric of Rhetoric â Political Rhetoric as Function and Dysfunction
2014‘Rhetoric’ has the contradictory distinctions of being both an ancient and highly regarded component of an elite education, and a vernacular term of reproof, as when we dismiss something as ‘rhetorical’ (significantly, both Marx and Freud studied rhetoric at school; Patterson, 1990).
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The Rhetoric of Rhetorical Inquiry
Western Journal of Communication, 2019Responding to the essays that make up the 2020 decennial special issue on the state of the art in rhetorical criticism, this essay takes a rhetoric of inquiry approach that asks what metaphors, inv...
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Rhetorical Criticism And The Rhetoric Of Science
Western Journal of Communication, 2001Skeptics have argued that scientific texts are resistant to scrutiny by rhetorical critics because of the recalcitrance of nature, the exegetical equality of scientific communication, and the institutionally driven nature of scientific text production. This paper argues that none of these purported differences between scientific and public texts bars a
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Vector Rhetoric: GPT’s Rhetorical Agency
Philosophy & RhetoricABSTRACT The growing capabilities of large language models (LLMs) pose important questions for rhetorical theory and pedagogy. This article offers an overview of how LLMs like GPT work and a consideration of whether they should be considered rhetorical agents. To answer this question, the article considers structural and argumentative
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Presidential Rhetoric and News Rhetoric
2014This study examines the role of U.S. presidents as a news source in the media agenda shaping process. DICTION text-analysis software was used to analyze transcripts of U.S. presidents' state of the union addresses and related news coverage from 1981 to 2007.
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