Defining social movements by their rhetorical form
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Central States Speech Journal
- Vol. 31 (4) , 267-273
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10510978009368066
Abstract
How do we know that some collective behavior is a social movement? At what point is a movement perceived to exist? How do movements progress? The relevance of these three questions to a rhetorical theory of movements is discussed in this essay?Keywords
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