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Political Science History & Theory

Politically Speaking

Cross-Cultural Studies of Rhetoric

edited by Robert Paine

Publisher
ISER Books
Initial publish date
Jan 1981
Category
History & Theory

  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780919666375
    Publish Date
    Jan 1981
    List Price
    $26.95

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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.

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

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