Response to Jack, Singer, and Abeles

Abstract

My thanks to Jack, Singer, and Abeles for a stimulating paper that invites us to think more deeply about the methods of rhetorical analysis. I am also grateful for the invitation to offer some observations on their work as they each show the applicability of the figures of speech to discourses on three very different subjects, and as collectively they challenge a verbal/material dissociation in our understanding and application of the rhetorical tradition.