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The Realm of Rhetoric Chaim Perelman
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

It is instead about shaping and refining our feelings. Nov 27, 2012 - Throughout history, irony has served useful purposes, like providing a rhetorical outlet for unspoken societal tensions. Aug 21, 2011 - Yesterday I came across an article by Cristy Beemer published only a month ago on 'The Female Monarchy: Rhetorical Strategy of Early Modern Rule' (Rhetoric Review, 30, 8, pp. In the battle, set your sights on next season's targets! Jan 10, 2011 - And so, apparently, is it OK for people in the public eye to drag politics into the realm of violent rhetoric: To the teams that desire making it this far next year: Gear up! May 12, 2014 - Regarding expertism, Mirowski assumes that the distance between the deliberating public and the realm of experts is one made by the confusion and misinformation circulated in public disputes about the economy. Practicality isn't the realm of art; it is the realm of rhetoric—of political debate. They argued that rhetoric didn't say anything substantive about the world – it wasn't a proper body of knowledge, I agree with you that plain English has a useful role to play in “the realm of contracts and public service announcements”, but I'm arguing that it is essentially a style choice, and not a privileged insight into the way language works. Feb 14, 2012 - Art isn't practical in this sense. 5 days ago - In this rhetoric, politicians and legislators are constructed as the visible embodiments of power, and thus the (healthy) popular skepticism with which such roles are viewed has been turned into the "common sense" that the state can such links to be direct or immediate–rather, we must expect them to be diffuse, deferred, and not necessarily entailed at all. May 26, 2012 - Allegory (Greek alegoria - "description of one thing under the name of another'') has a two-fold meaning: as a stylistic term. May 7, 2014 - While Washington's risky behavior is understandable in terms of psychology, it is far outside the realm of normalcy in terms of political strategy, and for a reason. Feb 3, 2012 - The rot set in when the ancient Greek philosophers Socrates and Plato put the boot into rhetoric around the 5th century B.C.