Definitions of Rhetoric

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* "Rhetoric is the study of the personal, social and historical elements in human discourse--how to recognize them, interpret them, and act on them, in terms both of situational context and of verbal style."  
* "Rhetoric is the study of the personal, social and historical elements in human discourse--how to recognize them, interpret them, and act on them, in terms both of situational context and of verbal style."  
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'''Bryant, Donald C.'''
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'''[[Donald C. Bryant]]'''
* "I take rhetoric to be the ''rationale of informative and suasory discourse''."
* "I take rhetoric to be the ''rationale of informative and suasory discourse''."
* "Rhetoric, or the rhetorical, is the function in human affairs which governs and gives direction to that creative activity, that process of critical analysis, that branch of learning, which address themselves to the whole phenomenom of the designed use of language for the promulgation of information, ideas, and attitudes."
* "Rhetoric, or the rhetorical, is the function in human affairs which governs and gives direction to that creative activity, that process of critical analysis, that branch of learning, which address themselves to the whole phenomenom of the designed use of language for the promulgation of information, ideas, and attitudes."

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This page will have definitions of rhetoric according to authors from our past and current theories courses. Authors are listed alphabetically by last name.

Bizzell, Patricia

Donald C. Bryant

Burke, Kenneth

Ehninger, Douglas

Fogarty, Daniel

Frye, Northrop

Halloran, Michael S.

Nichols, Marie Hochmuth

Perelman, Chaim

Richards, I.A.

Weaver, Richard


References

1. Breuch, Lee-Ann M. Kastman. "Post-Process 'Pedagogy'." Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader. Ed. Victor Villanueva. Urbana, Ill: National Council of Teachers of English, 2003. 116. Print.

2. Bryant, Donald C. "Rhetoric: Its Functions and Its Scope." Professing the New Rhetorics: A Sourcebook. Ed. Theresa Enos and Stuart C. Brown. Boston, MA: Blair Press, 1994. 271, 282. Print.

3. Ehninger, Douglas. "On Systems of Rhetoric." Professing the New Rhetorics: A Sourcebook. Ed. Theresa Enos and Stuart C. Brown. Boston, MA: Blair Press, 1994. 319. Print.

4. Fogarty, Daniel John. Roots for a New Rhetoric. New York: Bureau of Publication; Teacher's College, Columbia University, 1959. Print.

5. Frye, Northrop. The Well-Tempered Critic. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1963. Print.

6. Halloran, S. Michael. "On the End of Rhetoric, Classical and Modern." Professing the New Rhetorics: A Sourcebook. Eds. Theresa Enos and Stuart C. Brown. Boston, MA: Blair Press, 1994. 333. Print.

7. Nichols, Marie Hochmuth. Rhetoric and Criticism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963. Print.

8. Perelman, Chaim. "The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning." Professing the New Rhetorics: A Sourcebook. Ed. Theresa Enos and Stuart C. Brown. Boston, MA: Blair Press, 1994. 146, 153, 158. Print.

9. Perelman, Chaim. "Rhetoric and Philosophy." Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Invention in Writing. Eds. Richard E. Young and Yameng Liu. Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1994. 51. Print.

10. Richards, I.A. The Philosophy of Rhetoric. New York: Oxford University Press, 1936. Print.

11.) Weaver, Richard M. The Ethics of Rhetoric. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1953. Print.

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