A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the analysis of public rhetoric, Modern
Rhetorical Criticism teaches readers how to examine and interpret rhetorical situations …

The modus operandi of far-right political groups is crafted through strategic and systematic
relationships between symbolic and material forms of violence. This article considers the …

Now that it has become so commonplace, we rarely blink an eye at camera footage framed
by the crosshairs of a sniper's gun or from the perspective of a descending smart bomb. But …

Recent revelation of disinformation campaigns conducted by external adversaries on social
media platforms has triggered anxiety among western liberal democracies. One focus of this …

In this article, we introduce the special issue Language Weaponization in Society and
Education. We begin the manuscript with a preface, sharing an event that transpired during …

While critical scholars often focus on the ontological boundaries of rhetoric and violence, this
article analyzes the rhetoric/violence relationship from the perspective of cultural …

The study examined through ideological discourse analysis (IDA) 38 widely spread
disinformation-laced news stories (or “fake news”) regarding the Macedonian Name Dispute …

The article delves into English neologisms associated with the Russia-Ukraine war, which
gained significant media prominence from its onset on February 24, 2022, until the end of …

Persian, the lingua franca of Iran, is spoken as a mother tongue by all monolingual or
polyglot Iranian citizens who belong to a rich variety of pedigree-Iranian ethnic populations …

Rhetorical theory often deploys an energy trope to name how rhetorical action occurs. This
chapter details how rhetorical scholarship uses this trope to explain the rhetorical power of …