Public Rhetoric

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(PL) Public Rhetoric: Messages, Power, Influence Critically and historically addresses public discourses revolving around a particular issue or genre with regard to how rhetoric is used to initiate change or maintain power. Through contemporary methods of rhetorical criticism,\ considers how context shapes messages and messages shape context in a way that constructs U.S. identities and ideologies. Past topics have included social movement rhetoric and the rhetoric of public memory.