Call

CRAIG R. SMITH is the director emeritus of the Center for First Amendment Studies at California State University, Long Beach, where he taught for twenty-seven years. In 2010 he received the Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award from the National Communication Association for his contributions to rhetorical theory.MICHAEL J. HYDE is professor and University Distinguished Chair in Communication Ethics at Wake Forest University. He is a distinguished scholar of the National Communication Association, a fellow of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and a recipient of national, state, and university research grants for his work in “the rhetoric of medicine.”

This is an important new work. In many ways it returns to the rhetorical tradition of rhetoric in the service of the social good and of the good man skilled in speaking, and it does so through the creative and generative figure of ‘the call.’ This volume addresses issues of personal and socialcommitment that are central to understanding discourse today. Every scholar of rhetoric and ethics will want to read and use this important work.—Barry Brummett, Charles Sapp Centennial Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin

• Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. In the Beginning, and Before That, Too Chapter 2. The Elements of Eloquence Chapter 3. Cheating Eloquence Chapter 4. Epideictic Eloquence Chapter 5. Deliberative Eloquence Chapter 6. Forensic Eloquence Chapter 7. Religious Calls and Sacred Eloquence Chapter 8. Art and the Call of the Self/Other Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index