For rhetorical theory now, language is ulways persuasive in intent, always imbued with elhics and ideology
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For rhetorical theory now, language is ulways persuasive in intent, always imbued with elhics and ideology
Noting
The themes or language and meaning, ethics and ideology. and argument and knowledge recur and overlap al each stage in the formulation of rhetorical theories during the twentieth century.
Not to belittle anything that people did for rhetoric during the 20th century, but weren't these the same ideas present in rhetorical form during the height of the Greek philosophers? Is the difference in the theory rather than the practice?
It reminds me of earlier point Raj made about the difference between rediscovery and reinventing; was this the rediscovery aspect?