1. Theodore F. Sheckels, Jr., is Associate Professor of English and Director of Forensics at Randolph-Macon College , Ashland, VA 23005.
2. Annette C. Warfield is an Associate in the law firm of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran and Arnold , San Francisco, CA. An earlier version of this essay was presented at the 1988 Speech Communication Association Convention in New Orleans, LA.