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Publication details [#40779]

Roberts, Kathleen. 2004. Liminality, Authority, and Value: Reported Speech in Epideictic Rhetoric. Communication Theory 14 (3) : 264–284.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

authority | epideictic | reported speech | rhetoric | value

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

ct.oupjournals.org/

Annotation

This paper suggests that the role of reported speech in epideictic rhetoric serves to validate authority and to construct value. It also asserts that liminality is at the heart of all epideictic rhetoric.