Benefitting a wide audience, this text introduces rhetorical theory as applied to the law. Aristotle's definition of rhetoric--discovering all the available means of persuasion--encapsulates the benefits of rhetoric to lawyers. We know stories are persuasive, and narrative theory explains why. Law is built on metaphor and analogy. Argument structures are themselves persuasive. Rhetorical sensitivity and the features of the rhetorical situation offer...
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