Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama

English

ISBN: 0465031072

EAN: 9780465031078

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric

Publisher: Basic Books

Release Date: 05/01/2012

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis:

Rhetoric is all around us. It’s what inspires armies, convicts criminals, and makes or breaks presidential candidates. And it isn’t just the preserve of politicians. It’s in the presentation to a key client, the half-time talk in the locker room, and the plea to your children to eat their vegetables. Rhetoric gives words power: it persuades and cajoles, inspires and bamboozles, thrills and misdirects. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your life. After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, don’t you?

Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama

Illustrated: Yes

Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 320