deep rhetoric
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- The assumptions implied by analysis of a discourse.
- 1981, Dissertation Abstracts International: The Humanities and Social Sciences, University Microfilms International, page 2363:
- “Deep rhetoric” — the normally tacit presuppositions of discourse — functions in the Weaverian view as “practical wisdom” does in Aristotelean ethics. Thus, Weaver is seen to advance an essentially eudaemonist account of rhetoric […]