This article states that in order to exercise citizenship with responsibility, language teachers need to popularize a discourse for criticism in which students and teachers transcend tacit knowledge and common sense due to meta-cognition and argumentation and reach systematic knowledge and procedures posed by experts in the different disciplines.…

The Watergate tapes reveal that Nixon and his aides were the prime victims of their own rhetoric in that they began to believe what they tried to sell the public. (JH)

Analyzes the logical and stylistic flaws in George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s "Politics and the American Language," suggesting a new approach to the study of public language. (DD)

Defines the terms "rhetorical discourse" and "knowledge" and explains the inherent relationship between the two concepts. Outlines some of the more important tenets for a systematic theory of rhetorical epistemology. (PD)

Argues that the nondiscursiveness thesis introduces more breadth into argumentation than do any of the present alternative points of view. Maintains that all communication modalites are called into play by ordinary arguers and that the meanings of statements oftentimes cannot be understood unless attributions are made. (PD)

Deprived of a given world an author can assume he shares with his readers, an author today is thereby also deprived of a given rhetoric and must create his own. (JH)

We should train our students to apply the tools of literary analysis to political language.