POSTING #12

When I think of the word rhetoric I automatically think of English and the way a person speaks.  I didn't know, but judging from the blog question I guess it is more than just the way you speak.  The only place I ever really hear the word is in English class when teachers are teaching about proper use of grammar and annunciation.  I really don't associate any type of connotation with the word, but now that I think about it I guess it would have to have a negative connotation to it, because every time I hear it it is dealing with correcting the way a person speaks.  I do believe there is rhetoric that coincides with my culture.  Members of the hip-hop community speak a language that can be perceived by outsiders as a whole new language in itself.  Due to this fact it would probably be a good idea for me to incorporate a section in my mini-ethnography that deals solely on the rhetoric of the culture.