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- Title
The Weight of Rhetoric: Studies in Cultural Delirium.
- Authors
Farrell, Thomas B.
- Abstract
The article presents a discourse on rhetoric which is defined as the art of making things matter or giving significance to something in everyday life. The author mentions people's ability to adapt to events where rhetorical propaganda has been effective. The discussion focuses on the tension between situations that are influenced by rhetoric and situations that produce rhetoric. Topics include: reasons why magnitude and ambiguity in language are rhetorical subjects; paradoxes of magnitude such as distraction and obsession; incongruity, inversion, and resilience of magnitude in cultural language; and public relations.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHY of rhetoric; CRITICAL analysis; LANGUAGE &; culture; DISCURSIVE practices; RHETORIC &; psychology; ADAPTABILITY (Personality)
- Publication
Philosophy & Rhetoric, 2008, Vol 41, Issue 4, p467
- ISSN
0031-8213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/par.0.0018