| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Genre as social action | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1984 | 1,930 |
| 2 | Interpretive themes in relational communication | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1984 | 880 |
| 3 | Whiteness: A strategic rhetoric | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1995 | 491 |
| 4 | The “ideograph”: A link between rhetoric and ideology | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1980 | 487 |
| 5 | Constitutive rhetoric: The case of thepeuple québécois | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1987 | 476 |
| 6 | The rhetoric of identification and the study of organizational communication | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1983 | 450 |
| 7 | Fantasy and rhetorical vision: The rhetorical criticism of social reality | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1972 | 379 |
| 8 | They spoke in defense of themselves: On the generic criticism of apologia | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1973 | 372 |
| 9 | Manuscript referees | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1980 | 292 |
| 10 | Group decision‐making as a structurational process | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1985 | 274 |
| 11 | In search of ‘the people’: A rhetorical alternative | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1975 | 269 |
| 12 | TOPOIand rhetorical competence | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1979 | 268 |
| 13 | Structure of conversational argument: Pragmatic bases for the enthymeme | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1980 | 267 |
| 14 | The second persona | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1970 | 259 |
| 15 | Speaking “like a man” in Teamsterville: Culture patterns of role enactment in an urban neighborhood | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1975 | 213 |
| 16 | “To veil the threat of terror”: Afghan women and the ⟨clash of civilizations⟩ in the imagery of the U.S. war on terrorism | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 2004 | 208 |
| 17 | The rhetoric of women's liberation: An oxymoron | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1973 | 195 |
| 18 | Factors of source credibility | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1968 | 194 |
| 19 | Public memorializing in postmodernity: The Vietnam veterans memorial as prototype | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1991 | 185 |
| 20 | Notes in the history of intercultural communication: The Foreign Service institute and the mandate for intercultural training | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1990 | 164 |
| 21 | Publics and counterpublics (abbreviated version) | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 2002 | 157 |
| 22 | Knowledge, consensus, and rhetorical theory | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1976 | 155 |
| 23 | Political Parody and Public Culture | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 2008 | 153 |
| 24 | Location Matters: The Rhetoric of Place in Protest | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 2011 | 152 |
| 25 | A discourse theory of citizenship | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 2004 | 147 |
| 26 | Ethnography, rhetoric, and performance | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1992 | 145 |
| 27 | Polysemy: Multiple meanings in rhetorical criticism | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1998 | 141 |
| 28 | Rhetoric: Its functions and its scope | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1953 | 140 |
| 29 | Aristotle's enthymeme revisited | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1959 | 139 |
| 30 | Disciplining the feminine | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1994 | 137 |
| 31 | Archetypal metaphor in rhetoric: The light‐dark family | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1967 | 134 |
| 32 | Requirements, problems, and strategies: A theory of persuasion for social movements | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1970 | 133 |
| 33 | Resisting “national breast cancer awareness month”: the rhetoric of counterpublics and their cultural performances | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 2003 | 123 |
| 34 | Toulmin on argument: An interpretation and application | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1960 | 122 |
| 35 | The rhetoric of confrontation | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1969 | 118 |
| 36 | Kategoriaandapologia:On their rhetorical criticism as a speech set | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1982 | 118 |
| 37 | Constructivism and the study of human communication | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1977 | 116 |
| 38 | Remembering World War II: The rhetoric and politics of national commemoration at the turn of the 21stcentury | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 2002 | 113 |
| 39 | The rhetoric of historical movements | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1952 | 112 |
| 40 | A summary of experimental research on the effects of evidence in persuasive communication | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1969 | 112 |
| 41 | Entanglements of consumption, cruelty, privacy, and fashion: The social controversy over fur | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1994 | 112 |
| 42 | A synthesis of experimental research in stage fright | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1959 | 111 |
| 43 | The emerging concept of communication as dialogue | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1971 | 111 |
| 44 | The enthymeme in perspective | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1984 | 111 |
| 45 | Creating discursive space through a rhetoric of difference: Chicana feminists craft a homeland | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1996 | 110 |
| 46 | “Feminine style” and political judgment in the rhetoric of Ann Richards | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1993 | 109 |
| 47 | Rhetorical hybrids: Fusions of generic elements | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1982 | 104 |
| 48 | George W. Bush's post-September 11 rhetoric of covenant renewal: upholding the faith of the greatest generation | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 2003 | 104 |
| 49 | Telling America's story: Narrative form and the Reagan presidency | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1987 | 102 |
| 50 | The substance of rhetoric: Good reasons | Quarterly Journal of Speech | 1963 | 101 |
