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BURKE BABY!

Burke really felt that rhetoric happened from action.  Rhetoric occurs when a person is in the moment a “dramatistic” approach to creating and defining what it is.  I take from this that rhetoric never dies but is a type of…

Ethnocentrism in Rhetoric

At the basis of Yameng Liu’s argument in “To Capture the Essence of Chinese Rhetoric: An Anatomy of a Paradigm in Comparative Rhetoric” is the admonition to not allow preconceived or untested notions, ideas, or philosophies to taint your own…