Politically Speaking

Cross-Cultural Studies of Rhetoric

Edited by Robert p
Series: Social and Economic Papers
Publisher: ISER Books
Hardcover : 9780919666375, 232 pages, January 1981

Description

This volume focuses on the organization of meaning in the verbal culture of politics. Of ten chapters, six examine the rhetoric of a specific speech or event, and four are theoretical discussions of rhetoric in terms of context, strategy, performance and persuasion.

Reviews

"...a wealth of insight, intellectual challenge, and fascinating ethnographic detail..." - American Ethnologist