Central States Speech Journal

Pilotta, Joseph; Murphy, John W.; Wilson, Elizabeth; Jones, Tricia

doi: 10.1080/10510978309368145pmid: N/A

Traditionally, law and justice have been conceived in a cognitive or formal mode, but in today's society the legitimacy of law must be based on its immanence: Does it address and make sense to the everyday concerns of citizens? This essay argues for a critical theory of justice based on the communicative competence of the community.

Scult, Allen

doi: 10.1080/10510978309368146pmid: N/A

Earlier work on the relationship between rhetoric and hermeneutics defined rhetoric as a function occurring within the hermeneutical situation. This essay critiques that position, and argues that the hermeneutical act is in fact the inventional means through which a text, considered sacred, is transformed into a fitting response to a rhetorical situation.

Perry, Steven

doi: 10.1080/10510978309368147pmid: N/A

After offering a metacritical commentary on the rhetorical and epistemological functions of metaphor, drawing on the work of Edwin Black and Susan Sontag, this essay examines Hitler's metaphorical characterizations of Jews as exogenous threats to the German national body.

Hahn, Dan F.

doi: 10.1080/10510978309368148pmid: N/A

From an archetype‐signature perspective on public discourse, this essay explores the community‐building and community‐maintaining aspects of the presidency. President Johnson's first major speech following his 1964 electoral victory provides the case study.

Payne, David

doi: 10.1080/10510978309368149pmid: N/A

Examining scholarship and historical interpretations of Bacon's project and the Renaissance, this essay argues that, in respect to the commonplaces of rhetoric and poetic, Bacon's work was compatible with his contemporaries’, yet in its historical thrust provides a valuable perspective on the declining oral tradition of its age.