See[ing] the Available Means of Persuasion: A Shift to Rhetorical Practices

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Abstract

Despite evolving thinking about texts, rhetorical critics are still bound to the limits of this theory. I outline a theory of rhetorical practices that scholars could study in addition to texts and performances. This essay examines definitions of text and performance and highlights the flaws with these concepts, then defines rhetorical practices to explain how such a concept could expand rhetorical thinking.

Author

• Samantha Senda-Cook, University of Utah