Newswise — If you're looking for commentary on The Greatest, Muhammad Ali, and the way he used language to express himself, I'd like to suggest John Llewellyn of Wake Forest University.
As Associate Professor of Communication, Llewellyn studies and teaches rhetoric, analyzing persuasive language from the nation’s most prominent politicians, coaches and civil rights leaders. He’s also an expert on the public figure apology.
"Rhetoric is the art of using language persuasively. Adapting ideas to people and people to ideas, as scholars say. Muhammad Ali was an artist with rhetoric just as surely as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was. Like Churchill, Ali will be long remembered for what he said as well as for what he did," Llewellyn said.
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