Rhetoric

According to Killingsworth and Palmer (1992), "Classically defined as the production and interpretation of signs and the use of logical, ethical, and emotional appeals in deliberations about public action" (p. 1).

According to Warnick (2007), Kenneth Burke in A Rhetoric of Motives (p. 41) said rhetoric is "the use of wrods by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents" (p. 13). It is a fucntion of language and is concerned with "the persuasive aspects of langage, the function of languages as addressed, as direct or roundabout appeal to real or ideal audiences, without or within (44: emphasis in the original)" (p. 13). It is also "the use o language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation [or response] in beings that by nature respond to symbols (A Rhetrotic, 43)" (p. 25).

According to Thomas Rosteck, rhetoric concerns "understanding how language and other symbolic systems provide frameworks through which we make sense of experience, construct our collective identity, produce meaning, and prompt action in the world" (p. 2).

According to Peeples and Hart-Davidson, Jeffrey Arthurs "defines the rhetor, therefore as one who practices and theorizes authorship-within-context" (p. 65).

Rhetoric

Killingsworth, M. J & Palmer, J.S. (1992). Ecospeak: Rhetoric and environmental politics in america. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP.

Peeples, T. & Hart-Davidson, B. (2012). Remapping professional writing. In Exploring composition studies, Kelly Ritter & P.K. Matsuda (Eds.), 52-72. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.

Rosteck, T. (1999). At the intersection: Cultural studies and rhetorical studies. New York: Guilford.

Warnick, B. (2007). Rhetoric Online: Persuasion and Politics on the World Wide Web. New York: Peter Lang.