Epideictic research is a dynamic field of scholarship that continues to draw insight from contemporary practice and classical theory. This literature review has sketched out the primary streams of inquiry that epideictic scholarship will follow. Briefly summarized, these topics of inquiry include a range of areas. First, it continues to elaborate epideictic's conservative dimensions as a power and culture-preserving discourse as well as a progressive art capable of reconstituting communities. Second, epideictic relies upon its own unique form of reasons and arrangement of arguments. Third, the trends of epideictic scholarship reveal a continuing broadening of focus elaborating epideictic's function. Fourth, the connection between epideictic and deliberative discourse has transformed and scholarly understanding has elaborated the deliberative reliance upon epideictic forms of judgment. Fifth, epideictic's connection to time and its unique temporal dimensions in relationship to the past, present, and future have reinforced Aristotle's observation that marks this discourse as a multi-temporal one. Finally epideictic inquiry has fostered insight into other disciplines and offers a useful approach to understand how praise and blame operate in a diverse assortment of practices and contexts.
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