Abstract
Wayne Booth's neologism rhetorology, introduced in 1981, hasn't caught on in rhetorical scholarship. Nevertheless, in this essay I hope to revive rhetorology by harmonizing it with Paul Woodruff's work on reverence. I show how harmonizing these terms makes each more comprehensible. In order to illustrate how reverence and rhetorology might be made more practical I also analyze two arguments in the health care debate leading up to the passing of the Affordable Health Care for America Act in early 2010. Ultimately I hope to show that rhetorology is a reverent rhetorical practice, one that can help us restore a needed sense of communal reverence in contemporary democracy.
Degree
MA
College and Department
Humanities; English
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Ogden, Jonathan D., "Reverence and Rhetorology: How Harmonizing Paul Woodruff's Reverence and Wayne Booth's Rhetorology Can Foster Understanding Within Communities" (2010). Theses and Dissertations. 2297.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2297
Date Submitted
2010-06-24
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd3656
Keywords
reverence, rhetorology, Wayne Booth, Paul Woodruff, civility
Language
English