Rhetorical Theory

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The Future of Rhetorical Theory in the Electronic Age

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Abstract

This paper undertakes to understand the historical development of the rhetorical theory up to now and looks at some of the challenges the study is facing in the light of electronic development . The electronic age is slowly pushing the rhetoric studies out of the education system and lack of enough canonical texts is only making matters worse

Introduction

The understanding of the word rhetoric has generated some

confusion among scholars and public alike . More often than not the word is associated with politics and politicians and the media has always gone overboard to distort further the understanding of the word . Unlike other subject area like physics , rhetoric is not a definite body of knowledge and thus can be considered as the study as well as a practice of changing content . However , despite the never ending debates on what rhetoric means among scholars , it can be summarized as any forms of symbols use that operates within certain realms

Rhetoric in Ancient Times

Ancient Greece had produced a number of great men and women credited with the development of the discipline of rhetoric and communication in general . These forefathers and foremothers of rhetoric from ancient Greece consisted of Plato , Socrates , Aristotle and Aspasia of Miletus contributed immense to our understanding of today 's rhetoric (Cyphert 2002 . Aspasia of Miletus , one of the highly regarded women of ancient Greece , contributed to classical rhetoric as...