Jivan's area of interest is a good example of how rhetoric may be used
to probe design. Clothing, fashion, and accessories are some of the
most readily accessible products for study through a "rhetoric of
things." These products stress "ethos" or personal identity, and serve
to unite and separate groups. There is, of course, much literature
emerging in this area. A recent book from the University of Chicago
Press (name and author elude me at the moment) presses this point quite
well.
Dick
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