Political rhetoric and its relationship to context: a new theory of the rhetorical situation, the rhetorical and the political.
Political rhetoric is underpinned by its relationship to context. Scholars have struggled to articulate this relationship by relying upon an ontological perspective of rhetoric and situation. This paper utilizes a new, problematological philosophy of rhetoric in context that overcomes these limitati...
| Published in: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 115 - 132 |
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