Sunday, October 14, 2012

Track that Rhetoric


We by now have several essays in what we have labeled rhetorical analysis, though it might equally be called depth linguistics, by analogy with the term depth psychology (which includes analytic psychology and psychoanalysis):  rooting around for the meanings and motivations burrowing beneath the syntactic surface -- presuppositions, spin, and the wily enthymeme.  The goal is largely one of public service:  to unmask the squirmy politicians and marketeers.
You can survey the lot of them here:

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