i'm working on a paper right now on starbucks and feminism and i came across this statement in an essay by paula mathieu (a UIC grad) entitled "economic citizenship and the rhetoric of gourmet coffee":
"If rhetoric is the 'ability to see the available means of persuasion' as Aristotle suggests, rhetorical analysis can be an act of citizenship by interrogating how economic forces seek to predetermine and limit the available means to citizens" (mathieu 114).
you, my dear students, are now masters of rhetorical analysis, so what do you think of mathieu's claim? do you (or can you) see rhetorical analysis as "an act of citizenship"? and, if so, where does economics come into play? how do economic forces seek to predetermine and limit your available means?
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