Language of Discourse

One of Kyle’s eleven primary thematic clusters — the tag that groups books and essays about how public speech, rhetoric, persuasion, and the norms of discourse shape culture and accountability. The cluster spans the craft of moving people with words (oratory, rhetoric, writing) and the systemic forces that degrade or transform those norms (social platforms, shame culture, propaganda).

Where this appears

• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed — belongs to the language-of-discourse cluster: how the norms governing public speech, shaming, and accountability evolved (and degraded) with the rise of social platforms.
• Speeches That Changed The World — the lost art of moving people with words; great oratory as the legacy form of language-of-discourse.