Rhetorical Terms PART 1 Flashcards
The discourse forms African Americans have used to respond to Eurocentric oppression
Public speaking,preaching,poerty
Do the Right Thing
A metonymization of the black experience in urban America
Eurocentric discourse
Is based upon hierarchy and power, aims to gain control over the audience
Media-centered criticism
Describes media as the fundamental factor in perceptions and motivations
Afrocentric art forms that defy prediction and control
Rap, hip-hop, jazz
The rhetorical condition in the U.S Today
Eurocentric domination
The audience requirement during Afrocentric discourse
Participation or reaction to the presentation of a text
The concepts of TV includes
Commodification, realism, intimacy
What TV’s intimacy turns public attention toward
The personal dimensions of any great public importance
The rules of Eurocentric rhetorical structure
Acceptable discourse is static, is an ongoing human imposed model governing actions,assuming that the way things are is natural and unchanging
The Afrocentric rhetorical structure
Recognizes that rhetorical structures are variable,not static; that structures are negotiable
Media logic
As people become accustomed to a technology and to the social uses to which it is put, they internalize certain ways of thinking and perceiving
The name given to the improvisational interaction that takes place in African-derived discourse
Call and response
What Afrocentric readings of texts are trying to resist
Oppression
Culture centered criticism
Understands artifacts and texts through methods of interpretation that arise from the cultures generating the artificacts
