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rhetorolects

rhetorolects is the plural of rhetorolect.

Meaning of rhetorolect

Noun

rhetorolect (plural rhetorolects)

  1. A type of discourse that has a characteristic configuration of topics, themes, and arguments.
    • If the elaborations "catch on" in some way, and themselves become developed, it is likely that we are looking at the creation of a "rhetorolect," a configuration of topoi and their argumentation that "is generated through a process whereby widely recognized topoi are recontextualized and...2003, Vernon Kay Robbins, David B. Gowler, L. Gregory Bloomquist, Fabrics of Discourse: Essays in Honor of Vernon K. Robbins, →ISBN, page 175

Questions about rhetorolects

What is rhetorolects the plural of?
Rhetorolects is the plural of rhetorolect.

Words near rhetorolects in the dictionary

  1. rhetorize
  2. rhetorized
  3. rhetorizes
  4. rhetorizing
  5. rhetorolect
  6. rhetorolects
  7. rhetorology
  8. rhetors
  9. Rhett
  10. rheum
  11. rheumarthritic

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