The Handbook also reflects the diversity of views among public address scholars, advancing on-going discussions and debates over the goals and character of rhetorical scholarship.With its emphasis on the state-of-the-art and its guidance on many of the most basic theoretical and methodological questions relating to the subject, the Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address promises to become the definitive statement on the purposes and character of research and teaching in public address at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and will have a major impact on the discipline for years to come.