By Gerard Hauser, Amy Grim
This assortment provides theoretical, severe, utilized, and pedagogical questions and instances of publics and public spheres, studying those contexts as assets and websites of civic engagement. Reflecting the present country of rhetorical thought and learn, the contributions come up from the 2002 convention lawsuits of the Rhetoric Society of the US (RSA). The accumulated essays collect rhetoricians of alternative highbrow stripes in a multi-traditional dialog approximately rhetoric's position in a democracy. as well as the wide range of subject matters awarded on the RSA convention, the quantity additionally contains the papers from the President's Panel, which addressed the rhetoric surrounding September eleven, 2001, and its aftermath. different issues contain the rhetorics of cyberpolitical tradition, race, citizenship, globalization, the surroundings, new media, public reminiscence, and extra. This quantity makes a novel contribution towards enhancing the knowledge of rhetoric's position in civic engagement and public discourse, and should serve students and scholars in rhetoric, political experiences, and cultural reports.
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SO WHAT'S A RHETORICIAN TO DO? Before I conclude, I really should engage in direct address to this audience. What are we to make of a rhetorical democracy that's powered by Intel and shepherded by Microsoft, Inc.? Now, of course, it's obvious that we should be looking at more than single speeches. Don't get me wrong: I love to analyze speeches, I still teach speeches from Kennedy to Bush in my contemporary political rhetoric class, and I even publish books and book chapters analyzing political speeches.