Booth 39-54, 85-128


Submitted by longaker on Thu, 04/27/2006 - 6:34am

In chapter 4, Booth offers us a taxonomy of rhetorical performance that includes various types of win-rhetoric, bargaining rhetoric, and listening rhetoric. He advocates one variation of listening rhetoric, though he finds value in certain forms of bargaining- and win-rhetoric as well. In your post, try to think of one contemporary example in which listening-rhetoric-a was practiced, and contrast that with an example of another kind of rhetoric described by Booth. In these examples, do you find the beneficial results of listening-rhetoric-a becoming manifest? Do you find that the other mode of rhetorical engagement was less productive, ethical, etc.?

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