A rhetorical question is a question asked to make a point, rather than get an answer. If you have ever been late, someone might say: 'What time do you call this?' This person doesn't want an answer to ...

Simply sign up to the Work & Careers myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Everyone knows about rhetorical questions, don’t they? Don’t answer that. This figure of speech – a question that ...

Rhetorical questions expressing premises are situated at the intersection of two disciplines whose object of study is argumentation: dialectic and rhetoric. This paper examines arguments in biblical ...

More than 60 years ago a dramatic rhetorical flourish filled with contempt during a nationally televised hearing helped bring down a demagogue senator from Wisconsin. The power of a rhetorical ...

Questions of science, science and progressDo not speak as loud as my heart. [Yes, those are Coldplay lyrics. Congratulations on guessing it right.] Often, and ironically enough, the questions that do ...

WHO RULES AMERICA?—John McConaughy—Longmans ($3). Last October Author John McConaughy dropped dead on a Manhattan street, leaving behind him, as all men must, unfinished business. But this particular ...