The Rhetorical Personality explored in a new study from Lexington Books by Gary C. Woodward
For them, the pleasure of being in the company of an audience surpasses the satisfaction of communicating particular sets of attitudes or facts.
Chapter 1, A Conceptual Map of the Rhetorical Personality
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The plea for understanding that goes unheard, the pain or joy that fails to register, the disclosive statement that raises no curiosity: all of these represent malignancies of self-absorption that cheat communication of its richness. And they define by opposites a key feature of the rhetorical personality, who remains alive to the possibilities of engaging an audience on the terrain of their interior lives.
Chapter 2, Empathy: Finding Ourselves in Others
