COMM 8535 - Advanced Rhetorical Theory II: Contemporary Rhetorical Turns

3 Hours
Influential twentieth century thinkers repeatedly turned to the rhetorical tradition as a resource to understand the relationship between speech, power, violence and identity by studying the representative functions of language and the limits of language and logic. The course focuses on the way these thinkers understood rhetoric’s connection to social change, subject formation, and performance.

Prerequisite(s): None.
Corequisite(s): None.
Pre/Corequisite(s): None.
Requirements: None.