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| Ambiguity | 1 |
| Comparative Analysis | 1 |
| Debate | 1 |
| Discourse Analysis | 1 |
| Persuasive Discourse | 1 |
| Poetry | 1 |
| Rhetorical Criticism | 1 |
| Theoretical Criticism | 1 |
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| Journal of the American… | 1 |
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| Rickert, William E. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedRickert, William E. – Journal of the American Forensic Association, 1978
Debate is compared to modern poetry in its tension between content and form. From the perspective of this comparison, debate is defended against charges that it is unnecessarily structured, a distortion of normative language use, uncommunicative, and pertinent only to an esoteric group of listeners. (JF)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Comparative Analysis, Debate, Discourse Analysis
