The Functions of Epideictic: The Boston Massacre Orations as Exemplar

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1985, Pages 284-298

  Condit, Celeste Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Boston Massacre; Boston Massacre orations; ceremonial address; community identity; declamation; Epideictic; functionalism; genre; occasional address; rhetorical criticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350092741     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463378509369608     Document Type: Article

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