The uses of defining rhetoric

David W. Smit

doi:10.1080/02773949709391092

Rhetoric Society Quarterly Mar 1997

The uses of defining rhetoric

David W. Smit

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In other words, Scott recognized that our individual felt sense of rhetoric participates in larger group and community practices, which give our sense of rhetoric both a purpose and a justification. Scott uses two key examples to illustrate his point. One of them concerns the way in which Huey Newton, the Black revolutionary of the 60s, confronts an unspecified number of policemen with a gun in his hand. Bobby Seale, Newton's colleague in the Black Panther Party, reports that these policemen were checking out some people hanging around the party office when Newton intervened:

Journal: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Published: 1997-03-01
DOI: 10.1080/02773949709391092
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