The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. - Kenneth Burke
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
- Kenneth Burke
Language does our thinking for us. - Kenneth Burke
Language does our thinking for us.
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with h… - Kenneth Burke
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with h…
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning. - Kenneth Burke
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
Man is rotten with perfection. - Kenneth Burke
Man is rotten with perfection.
Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull. - Kenneth Burke
Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.
A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing. - Kenneth Burke
A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as… - Kenneth Burke
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as…
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use … - Kenneth Burke
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use …
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