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BURKE BABY!

By lminnis209

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 organism, always changing and evolving.   This seems true when you think about how many... »

Ethnocentrism in Rhetoric

By Kristen Phipps

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 understanding of Chinese rhetoric. He argues that because previous researchers had used and accepted... »