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Function Quotes by Kenneth Burke
- Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of…
- Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as…
- The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by…
- Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and…
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