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Edward M. Clift (ed): How Language is Used to do Business: Essays on the Rhetoric of Economics

The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, 2008, 462 pp, ISBN-10:0-7734-5143-9

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  1. Carter (2008, p. 8) defines rhetoric in terms of two main activities ‘production and analysis’ of text and speech. On the production side, rhetoric relates to the “crafting of speeches, construction of arguments, making of manuals [for] the persuasion of audiences”. Analytically, it is the application of critical theories to these texts and speeches, including the analysis of social systems and relations.

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Mbatha, C.N. Edward M. Clift (ed): How Language is Used to do Business: Essays on the Rhetoric of Economics. J Cult Econ 33, 151–155 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-008-9090-y

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