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Hahn, Dan F.; Gonchar, Ruth M. – Communication Quarterly, 1980
Argues that the development of a rhetorical theory for social movements is a lost cause. Examines two questions: (1) how movements differ from other forms of collective behavior, and (2) whether these differences create rhetorical differences. (PD)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Group Behavior, Persuasive Discourse, Rhetoric