I just registered for #ISHR2025, this July at Copenhagen, how 'bout you, my fellow #rhetoricians? Oh, and yes, it's going to be particularly interesting if you're interested in #Isocrates...#SocIsoc
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fellow #rhetoricians: Anyone else find Wayne Booth absolutely insufferable to read?
Going through 'A Rhetoric of Irony' atm. It contains some useful stuff on recognizing irony in texts. But MY GOD these points are smothered in annoying filler and weird digressions..
#TFG is an avid practitioner of a debating method known among #philosophers and #rhetoricians as GISH GALLOP. Its aim is simple: to defeat one’s opponent by burying them in a torrent of #incorrect, #irrelevant, or idiotic arguments aka bull💩 like his entire life
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