1. Invitational rhetoric has a different stated purpose than traditional rhetoric. What is the purpose of invitational rhetoric, and how does it differ from that of traditional conception of rhetoric?
2. Many people would claim that power comes from individuals, such as king or a president. Michel Foucault disagrees. Where does Foucault argue that power comes from?
3. Kenneth Burke believed that word choice often revealed preferences and argumentative strategies. Give one example of an instance when someone might choose one specific word over others to help them achieve their rhetorical goals.
4. Many rhetorical theorists define language as a system signifying words. Jacques Derrida disagrees. How does Derrida’s definition of language differ?
5. Why did Mikhail Bakhtin believe that all discourse was inherently ideological?

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