Dear Mr. Government, Can We Please Communicate?

Political communication is not particularly different from other ways of using language. It is only sensitive and more political. Every one of us is, after all, a rhetorician. A mother cajoling her two year old son to finish his food is using rhetoric. Similarly, the government communications minister needs a bite of rhetoric to assure … Read more

Dear Mr. Government, Can We Please Communicate?

Political communication is not particularly different from other ways of using language.  It is only sensitive and more political.  Every one of us is, after all, a rhetorician.  A mother cajoling her two-year-old son to finish his food is using rhetoric. Similarly, the government communications minister needs a bite of rhetoric to assure us that … Read more