Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Advertising Rhetoric

A short article in the latest issue of the Chronicle features a rhetoric professor who has made T-shirts with phrases like "Ask Me About Rhetoric" and "Isocrates, Youplato," in the hopes of raising public awareness of rhetoric as a discipline.

After a little searching at CafePress, I've decided to put these T-shirts on my Christmas list:Plus, this rhetoric sticker. As a public service I might order a few hundred of these and plaster them on telephone poles and stuff wherever I go.

The Chronicle also featured a piece about a Dictionary of Canadianisms, including the following quiz. (Match the term with the corresponding image. I'll post the answers tomorrow).

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5 comments:

  1. chrisJuly 18, 2007 at 11:56 PM

    i like The Canon shirt. but popularity of dead white guys since 1616? the significance of 1616 in the history of rhetoric is... miss historiographer???

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  2. jordynnJuly 19, 2007 at 2:26 AM

    Yeah, I don't know. I think the canon t-shirt must actually be for literature. Because if it were for rhetoric it would be waaaaaaaaaay earlier....

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  3. chrisJuly 19, 2007 at 9:03 AM

    true dat.

    i came across this about the dead white guys...
    your instincts are so smart.

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  4. AnonymousJuly 19, 2007 at 10:44 AM

    Scott's got one of those "Ask me about Rhetoric" t-shirts, but it shrank. His brother made it for him, and I should ask him to make more in bulk.

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  5. AimeeJuly 19, 2007 at 1:36 PM

    Shouldn't that be:

    "I love rhetoric?"

    (with a question mark)?

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