What Is Rhetoric?

by Michel Meyer

Book Overview

This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate issues or simply discuss questions. Rhetoric is the way in which we answer questions in an interpersonal context, when we want to have an effect on those with whom we are communicating. They can be convinced or charmed, persuaded or influenced, and the language used can range from reasoning to the sharing of narratives, literary or otherwise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198847238
• ISBN13: 9780198847236
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"