Unit 4. (Final) Flashcards
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typically refers to anything that came after and was influenced by the Enlightenment.
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Modern
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In terms of Modernism/ Post Modernism, the 20th century was a time of rediscovering Rhetoric as an
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Interdisciplinary Theory of Language and Meaning-Making
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The following quote is an example of what?
“The problem for Rhetorical theory after the birth of Enlightenment liberalism lies in the central role of moral autonomy in the emerging view of the liberal self. The very philosophy of liberal democracy itself was based on a fundamental distrust of persuasion.” (James Arnt Aune)
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Modernism in Rhetoric
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What the alternative to the dominant model of expository writing in 20th century rhetoric and composition?
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Creative writing, reflective essays and autobiographies.
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Comprehensive theory of language as effective discourse.
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Rhetoric (20th century Modern vs. Post Modern)
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Overlapping Themes in the Modern/Post Modern 20th century.
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- Language vs. Meaning
- Ethics vs. Ideology
- Argument vs. Knowledge
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- Language vs. Meaning
- Ethics vs. Ideology
- Argument vs. Knowledge
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Overlapping Themes in the Modern/Post Modern 20th century.
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Typically refers to anything that came after and was influenced by the Enlightenment.
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“Modern”
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refers to what comes after modernism has broken down.
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“Postmodern”
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“Modern”
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typically refers to anything that came after and was influenced by the Enlightenment.
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“Postmodern”
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refers to what comes after modernism has broken down.
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- Not troubled by unanswered questions
- Get rid of the metanarrative
- Rejection of modern ideas
- More playful and fun
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Postmodern
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How is Postmodernism different from Modernism?
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- Not troubled by unanswered questions
- Get rid of the metanarrative
- Rejection of modern ideas
- More playful and fun
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The following quote is an example of what?
“originally used in the 1980s by American poet Charles Olson and literary critic Ihab Hassan to refer to a new style in architecture, literature, and music, characterized by a playful quality, as opposed to the high seriousness of modernist art [. . .]; erosion of boundaries between high and popular culture; and, finally, a celebration of ‘mere’ style, surface, the free play of signifiers without a signified” (James Arnt Aune)
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Postmodernism in Rhetoric
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Not troubled by unanswered questions
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Postmodern
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20th Century Rhetoric
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returns to the university as a legitimate academic discipline
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Returns to the university as a legitimate academic discipline
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20th Century Rhetoric
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Postmodern
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Not troubled by unanswered questions.
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People had become familiar with rhetorical education and practices in the 19th century.
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Changes in the practice and teaching of rhetoric
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In the early 20th century, rhetoric was seen as an effective means to teach the basic skills of writing and teaching.
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Changes in the practice and teaching of rhetoric
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Field of speech communication as a distinct academic discipline was formed in 1914 (National Association of Academic Teachers of Public Speaking)
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Changes in the practice and teaching of rhetoric
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Changes in the practice and teaching of rhetoric
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- People had become familiar with rhetorical education and practices in the 19th century.
- In the early 20th century, rhetoric was seen as an effective means to teach the basic skills of writing and teaching.
- Field of speech communication as a distinct academic discipline was formed in 1914 (National Association of Academic Teachers of Public Speaking)
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(National Association of Academic Teachers of Public Speaking)
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academic discipline was formed in 1914
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1920s: Academic departments of speech and composition moved from pedagogical to theoretical questions.
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Development of criticism and theory
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1940s and 1950s: Influential scholars from outside of the discipline “discovered” rhetoric.
Development of criticism and theory
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1960s and 1970s: New student movements challenged academia to seek justice for oppressed people.
Development of criticism and theory
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Development of criticism and theory
- 1920s: Academic departments of speech and composition moved from pedagogical to theoretical questions.
- 1940s and 1950s: Influential scholars from outside of the discipline “discovered” rhetoric.
- 1960s and 1970s: New student movements challenged academia to seek justice for oppressed people.
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Linguistics, Literary Theory, and Philosophy
Three Key Influences on the Spread of Rhetoric
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Three Key Influences on the Spread of Rhetoric
Linguistics, Literary Theory, and Philosophy
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Linguistic Development
- Semiotics: the study of signs
- Two primary figures: American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (?-1913).
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The study of signs
Semiotics
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Semiotics
the study of signs
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The following are apart of what 20th century development?
- Semiotics: the study of signs
- Two primary figures: American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) and Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (?-1913).
Linguistic Development
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American philosopher (1839-1914)
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Swiss linguist (?-1913)
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Who was Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher (1839-1914)
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Who was Ferdinand de Saussure?
Swiss linguist
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Believed language was a systematic structure that refers to the world.
Peirce
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Peirce Sign =
referent and interpretant
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Believed Semiotics as a way to understand how meaning is produced.
Peirce
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Peirce: LANGUAGE
a systematic structure that refers to the world.
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Believed Sign = referent and interpretant
Peirce
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Peirce: Semiotics
as a way to understand how meaning is produced.
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Believed Meaning is determined by the relationship between the sign and the world.
Peirce
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Pierce: Meaning
is determined by the relationship between the sign and the world.
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Believed language was a timeless structure that refers primarily to itself.
Saussure
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Saussure: Sign =
Signifier and signified
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Believed Semiotics was a “science” of language.
Saussure
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Saussure: Meaning
Determined by the differences among signs in a system.
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Believed Meaning is determined by the differences among signs in a system.
Saussure
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Saussure: LANGUAGE
A timeless structure that refers primarily to itself.
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Believed Sign = signifier and signified
Saussure
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Saussure: Semiotics
A “science” of language.
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Peirce focused on ________
Meaning
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Saussure focused on _________
System
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According to Peirce in terms of sign the referent is
the actual thing
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According to Peirce in terms of sign the interpretant is
Idea in head
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Referent + Interpretant =
Sign (Peirce)
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Signifier + Signified =
Sign (Saussure)
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Sound-image like the word “tree” is an example of what?
signifier
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Concept in the mind
signified
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Signification
sign = signifier + signified
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According to Saussure ________ is a system we can study how it is without focusing on things of the world.
Language
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According to Saussure _______ Language is not dependent on reality.
Language
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No concern about, "what the author actually means."
Saussure (language)
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Developments in Literary Theory
- Literary critics stopped focusing on the author and background and more on the text itself.
- Scholars challenged the 19th-century distinction bewteen poetic and ordinary language
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The following are examples of what?
- Literary critics stopped focusing on the author and background and more on the text itself.
- Scholars challenged the 19th-century distinction bewteen poetic and ordinary language
Developments in Literary Theory
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Shifted away from the ideal of an inherent, universal rationality to the idea that reason is socially constructed.
Philosophical Developments
| 20th cent
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Philosophical Developments
Shifted away from the ideal of an inherent, universal rationality to the idea that reason is socially constructed.
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The following are examples of what?
- Toulmin, Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca challenged the formal logic of analytic philosophy and instead advocated for informal logic.
- Other philosophers took up the idea that rhetoric is epistemic, or knowledge-producing.
Philosophical Developments of the 20th century
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Toulmin, Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca challenged the
formal logic of analytic philosophy and instead advocated for informal logic.
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Other philosophers took up the idea that rhetoric is _____________
epistemic, or knowledge-producing.
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_________, __________, and ________ challenged the formal logic of analytic philosophy and instead advocated for informal logic.
Toulmin, Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca
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What does epistemic mean?
knowledge-producing
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The turn to rhetoric also addressed questions of identity and difference
- Identity as socially constructed
- Influence of structuralism on identity
- “Universality” challenged
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The following are examples of what?
- Identity as socially constructed
- Influence of structuralism on identity
- “Universality” challenged
The turn to rhetoric also addressed questions of identity and difference
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According to Burke, what is the answer to the central question, “What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it?”
- Using terms to explain human behavior
- Where is the motive (5 fingers)
- What people are doing and why they are doing it.
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Viewed Rhetorical Discourse as Drama, Identification over Persuasion
KENNETH BURKE
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Literary theorist who turned to rhetoric post- WWII
KENNETH BURKE
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Starts with language as symbolic action.
KENNETH BURKE
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Distinguishes action from motion.
KENNETH BURKE
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What thinker said:
“The ‘symbolism’ of a word consists in the fact that no one quite uses the word in its mere dictionary sense. And the overtones of a word are revealed ‘by the company it keeps’ in the utterances of a given speaker or writer.” (Philosophy of Literary Form 35)
KENNETH BURKE
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Globalist in the terms of definition of rhetoric.
KENNETH BURKE
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Read Hitler's "Mincomff" to figure out his rhetoric and how he had so much power over people.
KENNETH BURKE
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GRAMMAR OF MOTIVES
| 1945
KENNETH BURKE
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The following describes what?
-Opposed to “scientism”
-Examines not motives per se but how
people attribute motives
-Explores internal relationships (“ratios”) among the five key terms
-Terms reveal places where “ambiguities” arise; ambiguities enable change.
DRAMATISM
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Opposed to “scientism
DRAMATISM
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Examines not motives per se but how
| people attribute motives
DRAMATISM
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Explores internal relationships (“ratios”) among the five key terms
DRAMATISM
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Terms reveal places where “ambiguities” arise; ambiguities enable change.
DRAMATISM
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DRAMATISM
-Opposed to “scientism”
-Examines not motives per se but how
people attribute motives
-Explores internal relationships (“ratios”) among the five key terms
-Terms reveal places where “ambiguities” arise; ambiguities enable change.
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“Men have talked about things in many ways, but the pentad offers a synoptic way to talk about their talk-about. For the resources of the five terms figure in the utterances about motives, throughout all human history” (Grammar, 1319)
Burke's :
| Act, Scene, Agent, Agency, Purpose
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Name of what took place, in thought or deed; related to realism
Act
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Background of act; related to materialism
Scene
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Kind of person performing act; related to idealism
Agent
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By what means or with what instruments the agent acted; related to pragmatism
Agency
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What is Act?
The name of what took place, in thought or deed; related to realism
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What is Scene?
Background of act; related to materialism
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Why the agent could be said to have acted; related to mysticism
Purpose
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What is Agent?
Kind of person performing act; related to idealism
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What is Agency?
By what means or with what instruments the agent acted; related to pragmatism
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What is Purpose?
Why the agent could be said to have acted; related to mysticism
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"Everything happens for a reason" is an example of what?
Mysticism (related to Purpose)
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"The hand of the market" is an example of what?
Idealism (related to Agent)
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The most basic mode of persuasion
Identification
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The following describes what?
“Here is perhaps the simplest case of persuasion. You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his.” (Rhetoric, not in excerpt)
Identification (Burke)
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Identification
The most basic mode of persuasion
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The following describes what?
“In being identified with B, A is ‘substantially one’ with a person other than himself. Yet at the same time he remains unique, an individual locus of motives. Thus he is both joined and separate, at once a distinct substance and consubstantial with another.” (Rhetoric 1325)
Consubstantiality (Burke)
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The following describes what?
“ _______ is affirmed with earnestness precisely because there is division. Identification is compensatory to division. If men were not apart from one another, there would be no need for the rhetorician to proclaim their unity.” (Rhetoric 1326)
Identification (Burke)
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The following describes what?
“A doctrine of _________, either explicit or implicit, may be necessary to any way of life. For substance, in the old philosophies, was an act; and a way of life is an acting-together; and in acting together, men have common sensations, concepts, images, ideas, attitudes that make them consubstantial.” (Rhetoric 1326)
Consubstantiality (Burke)
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The hoped-for result of identification. (identify but NOT identical)
Consubstantiality
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Identification
The most basic mode of persuasion
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Consubstantiality
The hoped-for result of identification. (identify but NOT identical)
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According to Burke Language =
Symbolic Action
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From Burke's "Language As a Symbolic Action" (1966) what was said to be Directing the Attention ?
Terministic Screens
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Terministic Screens
Directing the Attention
| Reflection, Selection, Deflection
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Symbolic Action =
Language (Burke)
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The following describes what?
“Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality” (Language 1341)
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DIRECTING THE ATTENTION
Terministic Screens (Burke)
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Reflection, Selection, Deflection are examples of what?
Terministic Screens (Burke)
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We must use terministic screens, since we can’t say anything without the use of terms” (Language 1344).
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OBSERVATIONS IMPLICIT IN TERMS
Terministic Screens (Burke)
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RHETORIC: using language to induce cooperation
Burke
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The following describes what?
“Many of the ‘observations’ are but implications of the particular terminology in terms of which the observations are made” (1341).
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OBSERVATIONS IMPLICIT IN TERMS
Terministic Screens (Burke)
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LANGUAGE: symbolic action
Burke
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Burke METHOD:
using dramatism to understand how human beings attribute motives
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Burke RHETORIC:
Using language to induce cooperation
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Burke TRUTH/KNOWLEDGE:
our understanding of the world is never complete or unskewed; it is always “selected, reflected, deflected” from reality by our motives.
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METHOD: using dramatism to understand how
| human beings attribute motives
Burke
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TRUTH/KNOWLEDGE: our understanding of the world is never complete or unskewed; it is always “selected, reflected, deflected” from reality by our motives.
Burke
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Burke LANGUAGE:
Symbolic action
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Garbage truck is an example of what?
Substance
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Murder is an example of what?
Mixed mode
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Gold is and example of what?
Substance
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DISCUSSION: Why did Perelman feel the need to redefine rhetoric, and from which ancient rhetorician did his new definition borrow heavily?
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DISCUSSION: Does the new rhetoric have anything in common with the old? If so, what? How do they differ?
********
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Focused on Reviving Rhetoric as Argumentation
Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca
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Like Kenneth Burke, ________ turned to rhetoric in the 1940's
Perelman
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Although American departments of ______ had been established, European interest in rhetoric was still unusual. (Perelman)
Speech
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Scholars from many fields were turning to ______ as a source for the study of argumentation.
rhetoric
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Study of ___________ remains a vibrant subfield today.
argumentation
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The following were the goals of what thinker?
- To offer an alternative to formal logic as a means of understanding arguments.
- To help us understand value judgments.
- To bridge the gap between thought and action, which they see as widened by traditional philosophical approaches to knowledge.
Perelman
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Perelman’s main approach to understanding rhetoric
Argumentation
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Thinker who introduced the idea of Formal vs. informal logic
Perelman
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Wanted to offer an alternative to formal logic as a means of understanding arguments.
Perelman (Goals)
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Specialized language for philosophers
Formal
| Perelman
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Wanted to help us understand value judgments.
Perelman (Goals)
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Everyday argument is and example of what?
informal logic
| Perelman
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Tried to bridge the gap between thought and action, which they see as widened by traditional philosophical approaches to knowledge.
Perelman (Goals)
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The following describes what?
“Nonformal argument consists, not of a chain of ideas of which some are derived from others according to accepted rules of inference, but rather of a web formed from all the arguments and all the reasons that combine to achieve the desired result.”
Perelman's informal logic
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The following describes what?
“The argumentative process consists in establishing a link by which acceptance, or adherence, is passed from one element to another, and this end can be reached either by leaving the various elements of the discourse unchanged and associated as they are or by making a dissociation of ideas.”
Perelman's Two key forms of argument
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What thinker focused on universal vs. particular audience
Perelman
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What thinker focused on Practical reason?
Perelman
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What thinker focused on Association and dissociation
Perelman
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According to Perelman association is:
quasi-logical, arguments that resemble the real, arguments from particular cases
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Rhetoric: emphasized persuasion and the study of how people use “good reasons.”
Perelman
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Perelman Language:
Neither a mere reflection of reality nor completely arbitrary, but situated in and created by a community of users
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Method: must be general but responsive to particular situations
Perelman
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Perelman Truth/knowledge:
There is no such thing as absolute truth.
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Perelman Rhetoric:
Emphasized persuasion and the study of how people use “good reasons.”
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Language: neither a mere reflection of reality nor completely arbitrary, but situated in and created by a community of users
Perelman
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Perelman Method:
Must be general but responsive to particular situations
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Truth/knowledge: there is no such thing as absolute truth.
Perelman
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Proposed the idea of stripping away everything you've ever learned and replacing it with reason. In a sense responding to De Carte
Perelman
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The following are required in order for what?
- The giving of good reason
- From someone to someone else. (Addressed)
- Must have good will, conventional rules, common language.
- Certainty is impossible
Argumentation
| Perelman
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Always occurs in realms were certainty is impossible
Argumentation
| Perelman
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According to Perelman an Ideal audience would be
Universal
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Audience that is thought to made up reasonable and competent people
Universal
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According to Perelman target audience is
Particular
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Alternative to symbolic logic
Practical reason
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Would help to establish rules and models of reasonable action.
Practical reason
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Greek word for a type of wisdom or intelligence, specifically the virtue of practical thought, which is a common topic of discussion in philosophy. (Perelman)
Phronesis
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The following is an example of what?
"I am muslim but not a terrorist"
Dissassociation
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DISCUSSION: Although the term “signify” is discussed in depth, it is difficult to form a solid definition of what signifying is. How would you define the term signify, as discussed in the Gates reading?
************
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_________ the master trope of black speech
Signifyin(g)
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__________ became an important category for scholars studying language. (Gates)
Identity
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Gates’s approach to Signifyin(g) critiques
the dominant way of theorizing language use.
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Responds to Saussure’s understanding of language and signification.
Gates
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The rhetorical strategies used by members of the black community to draw attention to their own verbal power and communicate through indirection.
Signifyin(g)
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Signifyin(g)
- Black
- Rhetorical
- Vertical (paradigmatic)
- Inclusion of many meanings
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The following describes what?
- Semantic
- Horizontal (syntagmatic)
- exclusion
signifying
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The following describes what?
- Rhetorical
- Vertical (paradigmatic)
- Inclusion of many meanings
Signifyin(g)
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signifying
- White
- Semantic
- Horizontal (syntagmatic)
- exclusion
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RHETORIC: daily speech as a form of action
Gates
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Gates METHOD:
METHOD: Signifyin(g) is learned through constant practice; the concept of Signification can be used to better understand black speech and literature.
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LANGUAGE: see all language as “tropological”
Gates
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TRUTH: not as important as language
Gates
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Gates RHETORIC:
Daily speech as a form of action
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Gates LANGUAGE:
See all language as “tropological”
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Gates TRUTH:
Not as important as language
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METHOD: Signifyin(g) is learned through constant practice; the concept of Signification can be used to better understand black speech and literature.
Gates
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Applies only to black speech
Signifyin(g)
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The following are examples of what?
Rapping
yo mama jokes
street cred
shade.
Signifyin(g)
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What song (discussed in lecture) used indirection and double meanings was said to an example of Signifyin(g) ?
Steal Away to Jesus by Angola Choir
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Character used to mobilize blacks
Signifyin(g) Monkey
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Saw discourse as a form of social action rather than a reflection of “reality” or a representation of “truth”
Foucault
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Thinker best known for two concepts: discourse and discipline.
Foucault
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Main focus was prison reform
Foucault
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Thinker that took an “anti-foundational” approach to intellectual inquiry.
Foucault
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His work draws on the “sophistical” line of thought in the rhetorical tradition.
Foucault
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Foucault's Archeology of the Knowledge seeks to
“unearth” how discourse creates knowledge
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Contextual conditions that enable discourse to create meaning
Foucault's Rules of Formation
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What are Foucault's Rules of Formation
1. Step One: map the surfaces of their emergence.
2. Step Two: describe the authorities of delimitation.
3. Step Three: analyze the grids of specification.
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Seeks to “unearth” how discourse creates knowledge
Archeology of the Knowledge (Foucault) 1969
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The following describes what?
“One might say, then, that a discursive formation is defined (as far as its objects are concerned, at least) if one can establish such a group; if one can show how any particular object of discourse finds in it its place and law of emergence; if one can show that it may give birth simultaneously or successively to mutually exclusive objects, without having to modify itself”
Foucault On discursive formations
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The “limit” of discourse: neither internal nor external to discourse.
Discursive relations
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What questions must be asked when establishing Discursive relations?
1. First question: “Who is speaking?”
2. Second question: What are the “institutional sites” from which the speaker produces discourse?
3. Third question: What is the position of the subject?
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The ______ of discourse: neither internal nor external to discourse.
“limit”
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The _______ is another word for the human self, but it emphasizes the idea that the individual is “created” by discourse—that is, your experience of who you are and where you fit in society is not created by you but by the discursive systems in which you live.
“subject”
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The positions (modes) a subject can occupy when creating (enunciating) a discourse
Enunciative modality
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Statement: discourse:: part: whole
Enunciative Function
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The following are required in order for what?
* It is linked to a “subject position.”
* It appears in an “associated domain.”
* It has a “material existence.”
Enunciative Function
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Work focuses on how humans try to control discourse and make it serve their “will to truth”
The Order of Discourse (Foucault)
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The following describes what?
“that in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organized, and redistributed by a certain number of procedures whose role is to ward off its powers and dangers, to gain mastery over its change events, to evade its ponderous, formidable materiality”
Foucault's main hypothesis in “The Order of Discourse”
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The following describes what?
* The forbidden speech
* The division of madness from reason
* The will to truth
External Procedures: Systems of Exclusion
-The Order of Discourse (Foucault)
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_________ serve to classify, order, or distribute discourse in particular ways.
Internal procedures
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The following are required in order for what?
* Primary and secondary texts
* Author
* Disciplines
Internal procedures
-The Order of Discourse (Foucault)
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The following are required in order for what?
* Rituals
* Societies of discourse
* Doctrines
* Social appropriations
Final Procedures: Rules for Subjects
-The Order of Discourse (Foucault)
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The following describes what?
“We must call into question our will to truth, restore to discourse its character as an event, and finally throw off the sovereignty of the signifier.”
Facing our fear of discourse
-The Order of Discourse (Foucault)
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Another word for Foucault’s “discourse”
RHETORIC
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Foucault LANGUAGE:
follows Saussure’s general system of signs, but emphasizes the material reality of this system.
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METHOD: deconstructive and anti-foundational; uses language strategically in his writing to challenge accepted ideas.
Foucault
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LANGUAGE: Follows Saussure’s general system of signs, but emphasizes the material reality of this system.
Foucault
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RHETORIC:“discourse”
Foucault
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Foucault METHOD:
deconstructive and anti-foundational; uses language strategically in his writing to challenge accepted ideas.
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TRUTH/KNOWLEDGE: produced through discourse
Foucault
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Foucault TRUTH/KNOWLEDGE
produced through discourse
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Gates sees ________ as the master trope of black rhetoric.
Signifyin(g)
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According to Gates, the setting for speech interactions in the black community include
- Church
- Home
- Streets
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Speech interactions in the black community do not occur in
School
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Gate's understanding of the process of signification is influenced most by
Ferdinand de Saussure
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In the Monkey Tales, the Monkey uses language to trick the ______
Lion
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Like _______, Gates views rhetors as a set of tropes that constitute language.
Nietzsche
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During the end of the 20th century, a "theory of sign and signification" was developed. This theory is called
Semiotics
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The editors claim that which two disciplines had the most influence on modern and post modern rhetorical theory?
Literary theory and philosophy
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Foucault was born in
Poitiers, France
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What we have called "rhetoric" in this course, Foucault would call
Discourse, or Discursive Formations
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Foucault concentrates most on the relationship between
Power and Knowledge
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Foucault lived during the ____ century CE.
20th
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According to Foucault, the table of context of your textbook is an example of a
Grid of specification.
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According to Foucault, What is taken to be true always depends upon the _______, or a particular field of discourse.
Context
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According to Foucault, __________ is produced by discourse.
Knowledge
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In his anti-foundational tendencies, Foucault is most like which 19th century thinker?
Nietzsche
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Burke promotes the process of _______ over ____ as the central function of rhetoric.
Identification, persuasion
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Burke was born in
Pittsburgh, PA
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To best describe the 5 terms of dramatism, Burke compares them to
the fingers on a hand
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Burke calls the relationships between the various dramatistic terms
Ratios
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Burke argues that _______ idea of substance is ambiguous rather than clearly defined, as that person had thought.
Locke's
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Identify the 5 terms of dramatism (Burke)
1. Act
2. Scene
3. Agent
4. Agency
5. Purpose
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Perelman claims that philosophy is a
a form pf rhetoric
249
According to Perlman and Lucie O-T, the members of the ________ audience are brought together by shared values, whereas the members of the imagined _______ audience are persuaded purely by rational argument.
particular, universal
250
Perelman and O-T argue that language is
created by community
251
"Quasi-logical" arguments are a type of
association
252
For Perelman, a speaker most effectively gains adherence for her arguments by
giving good reason
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In The Realm of Rhetoric, Perelman summarizes several thinkers' ideas on rhetoric. Identify two individuals mentioned by Perelman that we have read in class.
Plato, Aristotle, Gorgias
