Re: Re[6]: THE RHETORICAL THEORY

janet cross (hceng028@DEWEY.CSUN.EDU)
Thu, 8 Aug 1996 14:00:49 -0700


On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Gretchen Rich wrote:

> audience to be aware of their world and their experience. If we deny
> authority as the "officious words of little minds," we are perhaps
> denying the experience of the officials we quote. On the other hand, if
> we refuse to take the biases of those authorities into consideration, we
> are misled and misinterprete the experience they note. That's another
> aspect of rhetoric which we haven't heard about yet, isn't it? Or did we
> discuss this concept before I joined the group? Consider the source, my
> mother always told me--and it still holds true for rhetorical studies.
> If the source has some other axes waiting for the grinding, perhaps I
> should examine them as well???

Welcome Gretchen and well said. My mamma always told me that too. That
axe has double blade action.

> I am SO glad you folks are out here talking about these issues!! I
> sometimes feel all alone and isolated because I have no permanent
> colleagues in the area.[I told you it was a small school, right??]

I feel the same way. This group is great. And I don't come from a small
town.

Janet

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