Rhetoric
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Rhetoric, along with storytelling and greeting is one of Young's additions to her expanded conception of democratic communication. She describes it as the, "respect for emotional and figurative language that is denigrated by deliberation" (130). Rhetoric can be further broken down into two aspects which include sittuatedness and the link to desire. The value of rhetoric as Young puts it, is that it constructs the speakers position in relation to those of the audience, and also constructs the occasion of the speech. By incorporating rhetoric into the deliberative process, Young hopes that we can transgress the cultural bias inherent in deliberation that ignores figurative styles of speech.
