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Rhetoric

a term with supreme positive authority in a culture, which other terms are ranked beneath and borrow force from, such as 'progress' for Weaver.

In rhetoric, god term refers to a term with supreme positive authority in a culture, which other terms are ranked beneath and borrow force from, such as 'progress' for Weaver. This meaning comes from Weaver (1953) in The Ethics of Rhetoric.[1]

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authority4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs borrow1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct culture4 fields · 9 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Weaver, R. M. (1953). The Ethics of Rhetoric. Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 9781136753534

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