Rhetoric: art of persuasion. Often taken to refer to flowery or bombastic prose, or to deceitful persuasion, ‘rhetoric’ is also the name of a serious academic discipline and an important subject matter. The discipline of rhetoric is the study of the norms of effective communication. Classically (starting with Aristotle), rhetoric referred to the art of effective speech-making to… Read More
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