Final

Question 1

Foucault

genealogy

Answer 1

power associated with knowledge

Question 2

Foucault

archaeology

Answer 2

record of the development of knowledge (rules) in discourse

Question 3

Foucault

power

Answer 3

the overall system of force relations spread through the entire discourse

Question 4

Foucault

discursive formations

Answer 4

formal arrangements of discursive use which create knowledge for a culture and give power

Question 5

Foucault

characteristics of discursive formations (8)

Answer 5

rules
objects
voices
circumstances
sites
structure
roles
power

Question 6

Foucault

epistemes

Answer 6

discursive formations linked to events and epochs

Question 7

Foucault

knowledge

Answer 7

what can be talked about in a particular discourse community

Question 8

Eco

degrees of fake (5)

Answer 8

the realistic copy
the realer than real
the more fake than real
the fake
the hyperreal or absolute fake

Question 9

McLuhan

media

Answer 9

any and all technological extensions of body and mind

Question 10

Ellul

modern propaganda

Answer 10

scientific analysis of psychology and sociology
method
analysis of the environment
scientific approach to effects

Question 11

Barthes

levels of meaning

Answer 11

linguistic
non-coded iconic
coded iconic

Question 12

McNair

goals of political ads

Answer 12

candidate’s identity
candidate’s essential policies
endowing the candidate with positive meaning linked to current values
attacking the opponent

Question 13

cultural studies

Answer 13

a discipline that is concerned with the production, circulation, and reception of meanings in industrialized societies

Question 14

critical studies

Answer 14

a group of theorists that are critical in attitude, methodological, concerned with power, and interventionist”

Question 15

characteristics of rhetoric (6)

Answer 15

symbolic
involves an audience
involves a context
establishes what is probably true
practical
inventive and analytic

Question 16

Saussure

characteristics of language (5)

Answer 16

unnatural
arbitrary
multiple
over-complex/over-determined
remaining and changing

Question 17

Saussure

structural characteristics of language

Answer 17

relational
linear
lasting

Question 18

Burke

types of discourse

Answer 18

conventional
repetitive
progressive

Question 19

Burke

types of indentification

Answer 19

obvious/direct
antithesis
unnoticed remarks

Question 20

Burke

characteristics of man

Answer 20

symbol user (maker mis-user)
inventor of the negative
separated from natural condition by his own making
goaded by the spirit of hierarchy
rotten with perfection

Question 21

Burke

the pentad

Answer 21

act
agent
purpose
agency
scene

Question 22

Toulmin

causistry

Answer 22

resolving of moral problems by applying specialized knowledge and communal practices to particular instances

Question 23

Perelman

two types of bases of agreement

Answer 23

facts truths and presumptions

values hierarchies

Question 24

Perelman

classification of arguments

Answer 24

quasi-logical
based on the structure of reality
attempting to establish the structures of reality

Question 25

considerations and goals of new rhetoric (5)

Answer 25

occasion & context
particular audiences
speaker’s interaction with the audience
adherence to the audience (affinity, meeting of minds)
shared societal/community habits, values & beliefs