Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Rhetorical analysis

I'm not even sure how the analysis of rhetoric fits into semantic programming, except that (1) it's NLP kind of, (2) it's research and therefore database-oriented kind of, and (3) I keep coming back to it.

The trigger is an article on CNN [HNN discussion] by Bill Bennett of the Claremont Institute tearing down the concept of spending public money on education (god forbid the teacher's unions should get tax money). There are a few little nasty tricks he throws in. I think it would be possible to analyze this kind of rhetorical treatment, maybe. Eventually. I'm not sure how to start, but it fascinates me.

Anyway, the article just pissed me off, so I thought I'd bookmark the stuff with this post.

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