Rhetoric is often defined as “the art of language.” That might sound like a bit of a cliché (which it is), but it’s actually quite a nice way of saying that rhetorical devices and figures of speech ...

Joan Leach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is President of Australian Science Communicators and affiliated with the Association for Rhetoric of Science and Technology. We ...

I recently saw someone on Facebook post this, but it was posted as a repeated reply to several different alleged plans and policies of "the left", such as removing statues of Thomas Jefferson and ...

Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Aggie Agora, Texas A&M University Yet a recent poll has found that 37% of likely voters across the political spectrum agree with a “temporary ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. About five weeks ago, the psychology professor Drew Westen published a very long and not very persuasive essay ...

Who will win the presidential debates? What does each candidate’s use of words say about how he would govern as president? Can Obama’s rhetorical skills lift him to the heights of Lincoln, FDR, and ...

One of my all-time favorite posts on the Social Media Contractors blog is by one of our editors, Catherine: Me Talk Witty One Day: The Art of Social Media Rhetoric. First of all, I think it’s spot on, ...