Since its inception in Ancient Greece, the academic discipline of rhetoric—not to be confused with the knack of sophistry or what often is labeled “mere rhetoric”—has focused on the art of symbolic ...

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Summer, 2005), pp. 101-124 (24 pages) This article adds to the growing body of feminist scholarship critiquing Robert J. Connors' assertion that the ...

What happens when someone challenges your version of reality? That is, when someone argues that your justification system for why the world is the way it is wrong or bad? Well, most people get ...

This article considers how demagoguery gives meaning to violence by providing a symbolic, expressive outlet for resentment resulting from real or felt precarity. This rhetorical process redirects ...