Abstract
John Dickinson’s famed Letter appropriates pastoral design and convention for rhetorical ends. Through a close reading of the text, we can discern the ways in which literary idiom lends its force of expression to meet the needs of public controversy. A standard of rhetorical judgment emerges from the text which is both instantiated in the argument and is its chief mode of appeal.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 46-57 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Quarterly Journal of Speech |
Volume | 76 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 1990 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Communication
- Language and Linguistics
- Education