Presents a rhetorical criticism of Wayne Brockriede's article, "Arguers as Lovers," which suggests that argumentative rape, seduction, and love can be determined by examining the attitudes, intents, and consequences of arguers. Discusses definitional problems and the tentative attitude, as well as the one-dimensionality, of the original article.…

Presuming that rhetorical discourse comes into existence as a response to a situation in the same sense that an answer comes into existence in response to a question, or a solution in response to a problem, then Mexico is fertile ground for rhetoric and the study of rhetoric. Mexico is a country under fire. Economic and political problems threaten…