RhetoricA.net
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The Rhetorica Network: Analysis of Rhetoric, Propaganda, and Spin in Politics and Journalism
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"Oh, that's just rhetoric!"
In other words, whatever the statement is, the amateur critic believes it to be simply empty or evasive language. And perhaps it is. So is it rhetoric? Certainly. Every human utterance is rhetoric because, from my particular theoretical perspective, all human utterances are speech-acts meant to persuade. In an academic, non-pejorative sense, rhetoric is the effective use of language. Effective to what end? There are lots of answers to that question, and you now know mine: persuasion. The quality of a rhetorical performance can be anything from sublime to insipid, but what is most important is to decide if rhetoric is working to persuade and, if it is, how it is working to persuade.
The Rhetorica Network, including my Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal web log, is my attempt to explain the persuasive tactics of politics and the press.
I am particularly interested in the office of the President of the United States. I say "office" because the presidency is more than one person; it is many voices that speak through one person in an attempt to create a unified political agent we call the president. President George W. Bush speaks as the president, but his words are crafted for him by speech writers and edited for style and political content by political aides. The voice we come to know as that of George W. Bush is actually a complex amalgam, although Bush is ultimately politically responsible for these words and this voice.
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