A functional approach to the rhetoric of social movements
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Central States Speech Journal
- Vol. 31 (4) , 298-305
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10510978009368070
Abstract
This essay develops a functional approach to the rhetoric of social movements that views rhetoric as the agency through which social movements perform functions essential to their furtherance and maintenance.Keywords
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