Rhetoric in Claims-Making: Constructing the Missing Children Problem
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 34 (2), 101-121
- https://doi.org/10.2307/800710
Abstract
Claims-making about social problems is a persuasive activity, subject to rhetorical analysis. I use Toulmin's categories, which classify statements aKeywords
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