The Crisis of Rhetoric: Workshop 2 - Concepts

Scholars researching rhetoric and political speech share a tradition of thought and practice which may provide a common vocabulary for analysis and evaluation. However, such scholars are also embedded in very different disciplines with their own concepts and methods and their own ways of using classical ideas. That may mean that we misunderstand or misuse each other’s thinking or that we are failing to see areas where conceptual development and clarification are required.

With that in mind the aim of this workshop is to strengthen our understanding of each other’s disciplinary approach to the study of rhetoric, oratory and political speech and to do so in ways which enable us to reflect on Workshop 1 and on the current ‘crisis’ of political speech. 

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