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political rhetoric  

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  • Political rhetoric is an art of articulating and promoting one's political interests through influence in the public sphere by symbolic manipulation of signs and symbols, including language, images, and the staging of events. The rhetorical theorist Lloyd Bitzer noted that political rhetoric was in action wherever there were groups of individuals with collective interests at stake in some public, decision-making situation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Rhetoric, Political]

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