Title: Adam Smith
Description: "In this volume, Stephen J. McKenna provides the first book-length treatment of Adam Smith's rhetorical theory, focusing on his theory of rhetorical propriety - the means by which effective communication is adapted to the variables of subject, audience, speaker or writer, purpose, and moment - and the centrality of this concept to his thought."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: English language, Ethics, History, Knowledge, Language and languages, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Rhetoric, Rhetoric, Scots language, Study and teaching, Smith, adam, 1723-1790, Knowledge and learning
Places: Scotland
People: Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Time periods: 18th century