In short, rhetorical criticism seeks to understand how symbols act on people.

Body language is an important function of what scholars call "rhetorical criticism."

Kuypers' work falls into two broad categories: political communication and rhetorical criticism.

Fantasy theme analysis is a humanistic method of rhetorical criticism.

Fantasy and rhetorical vision: The rhetorical criticism of social reality.

This stage of cluster criticism can incorporate other methods in rhetorical criticism.

By the mid-1980s, however, the study of rhetorical criticism began to move away from precise methodology towards conceptual issues.

First, rhetorical criticism hopes to help form or improve public taste.

Brueggemann is an advocate and practitioner of rhetorical criticism.

Genre criticism has thus become one of the main methodologies within rhetorical criticism.