Book Review| December 01 2018 The Language of the Third Reich: LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist’s Notebook The Language of the Third Reich: LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist’s Notebook. By Victor Klemperer. Translated by Martin Brady. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013; pp. 320. $19.95 paper. Jerry Blitefield Jerry Blitefield University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (4): 744–746. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0744 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jerry Blitefield; The Language of the Third Reich: LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist’s Notebook. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2018; 21 (4): 744–746. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.4.0744 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay grows out of a larger project, one in which I look to account theoretically for ways in which underpowered groups creatively manage limited physical resourcesfor maximum rhetoricaleffect. My assumption in that larger project is that underpowered groups - groups whose publicness must be either granted or commandeered from same more greatly pouered group (e.g., government) - suchgroups encounter and engage constraints ofpublic rhetoric in way not necessarily of concern to the overpowered. For example, the mayor of any city can, at his or her choosing, call together a press conference inside City Hall to address tbe issue of homelessness: the homeless do not possess tbat same rhetorical option. Of the three terms central to that larger project - place, kairos, and delivery - it is upon kairos that I will focus this essay. My argument here is that. while I am respectful of the literature accounting for kairos as a rhetorical concern in ancient Athens, most of that literature focuses on the etymology, philosophy, or theology of the term, Fully acknowledging that literature, I wish to add politial dimension, and propose that kairos becomes even more complex when coupled with perhaps the most Significant political development in the democratization of classical Athens: isegoria, or the right of any citizen to address the Assembly.