Climbing the academic ladder: A critique of provincialism in contemporary rhetoric

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 375-385

  Cherwitz, Richard A ^a   Hikins, James W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical Rhetoric; De privileging; Epistemic; Provincialism; Reductionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042910299     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335630009384305     Document Type: Article

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