Rhetorical Perspective

[Phil Gaines]

Yes, I said that the Western model of rhetoric is "only one" model, not "the
only one".  Glad we got that cleared up.  Right, so what does Navajo
rhetoric look like, I wonder?  And shouldn't someone be writing a
dissertation on rhetorical universals?

Phil

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>From: David Samuels <samuels at ANTHRO.UMASS.EDU>
>To: DISCOURS at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Rhetorical Perspective
>Date: Wed, Feb 3, 1999, 8:39 AM
>

>Maybe I'm misunderstanding Phil Gaines, but why would a gloss of "rhetoric"
>as "strategies of persuasion" mean that the Western model is the only one
>out there?  Don't Navajos ever try to persuade each other?  (If you
>conflate rhetoric and poetic, as many do, does that mean that a Western
>model of poetics is the only one available?)