Responding to the essays that make up the 2020 decennial special issue on the state of the art in rhetorical criticism, this essay takes a rhetoric of inquiry approach that asks what metaphors, invocations, appeals, devices, or patterns of rhetoric drive the communicative practices of these scholars, and what the implications of those choices might be for understanding the present and influencing the future shape of the field.

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修辞探究的修辞学

针对构成2020年度修辞学批评最新研究专刊的文章，本文采用了一种问询方法，要求问问隐喻，调用，诉求，手段或修辞模式是什么推动了修辞学的交流实践这些学者，以及这些选择对于理解当前和影响该领域的未来形态可能产生什么影响。