Lecture: Bazerman’s “Changing the Landscape: Kairos, Social Facts, and Speech Acts”
In “Changing the Landscape: Kairos, Social Facts, and Speech Acts,” chapter 5 of A Rhetoric of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 1, Charles Bazerman examines the role of social facts and speech acts in relationship to each other and to kairos. Social Facts Social facts, he explains, are things that people believe to be true with the consequences […]