Contributes to scholarship advancing the understanding of human communication by examining a powerful set of imperialist symbols that have a lingering impact on the British national psyche. Investigates the Queen's Diamond Jubilee speech and the performative rhetoric of the Jubilee celebration itself, to illustrate how rhetorical depiction may…

Asserts that Great Britain's National Curriculum is based on the flawed assumption that by attending to purpose and audience, the student will write in a preferred manner. Argues that form needs conscious formulation, using a language that needs to be taught and that is not self-evident from an attention to either "purpose" or…

Argues that scholars need to develop a more rhetorical perspective on the history of rhetoric to encompass rhetoric's dual nature as an intellectual discipline and a practical political art. Reviews history of rhetoric in England and Scotland during the 18th century when the distance between the educated world and the public sphere narrowed when…