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Merleau‐Ponty is an existential phenomenologist whose theory of communication is based upon a sign system linking perception and expression in speech. His concepts of “authentic” and “empirical” speech suggest an original approach for describing and explaining “man speaking.” Such an approach represents a vital addition to those theories constituting the New Rhetoric.
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Richard L. Lanigan (1975) studied this question.
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