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Rhetoric has sometimes lived down to its critics, but as set forth from antiquity, rhetoric was a comprehensive art just as much concerned with what one could say as how one might say it. Indeed, a basic premise for rhetoric is the '''indivisibility of means from [[meaning]]'''; how one says something conveys meaning as much as what one says. Rhetoric studies the effectiveness of language comprehensively, including its [[emotion]]al impact (see [http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Persuasive%20Appeals/Pathos.htm pathos]), as much as its propositional content ( see [http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Persuasive%20Appeals/Logos.htm logos]). To see how language and [[thought]] worked together, however, it has first been necessary to artificially divide content and form. [http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Encompassing%20Terms/rhetoric.htm]

Rhetoric has sometimes lived down to its critics, but as set forth from antiquity, rhetoric was a comprehensive art just as much concerned with what one could say as how one might say it. Indeed, a basic premise for rhetoric is the '''indivisibility of means from [[meaning]]'''; how one says something conveys meaning as much as what one says. Rhetoric studies the effectiveness of language comprehensively, including its [[emotion]]al impact (see [http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Persuasive%20Appeals/Pathos.htm pathos]), as much as its propositional content ( see [http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Persuasive%20Appeals/Logos.htm logos]). To see how language and [[thought]] worked together, however, it has first been necessary to artificially divide content and form. [http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Encompassing%20Terms/rhetoric.htm]

 

[[Category: Languages and Literature]]

[[Category: Languages and Literature]]