Displays the relationship between rhetoric and dialectic. Waveland Press Inc. Taking sentential categories first, Weaver found these revealing in the kinds of intellectual operations that speakers would perform. Various parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives also reflect specific ethical perspectives. Nouns deal with essences and complete substances.
Verbs describe actions or states of being and therefore rank with nouns in force.
Adjectives are secondary in force and status since they are merely added to nouns and are therefore dispensable. Devil term - terms of repulsion, the greatest evil in a culture. Charismatic term - operate independently of referential connection. They are rhetorical by common consent.