Lloyd Bitzer

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Lloyd Bitzer (born 1931) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science.[1] As a rhetorician he is best known for the concept of "the rhetorical situation."[2] Marilyn Young has characterized him as "one of the most respected rhetoricians of the latter half of the twentieth century."[3]

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  1. ^ http://www.wisc.edu/directories/results.php?name=LLOYD%20F%20BITZER&email=lfbitzer@wisc.edu
  2. ^ Bitzer. L. (1968). The rhetorical situation. Philosophy and rhetoric. 1:1. 1-14.
  3. ^ Young, M. J. (2001). Lloyd F. Bitzer: Rhetorical situation, public knowledge, and audience dynamics. In J.A. Kuypers and A. King (Eds.) Twentieth-century roots of rhetorical studies (pp. 275-6). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

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