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Kraemer, Don J. "Between Motion and Action: The Dialectical Role of Affective Identification in Kenneth Burke." Journal for the History of Rhetoric 16, no. 2 (2013): 141–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jhistrhetoric.16.2.0141.
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ABSTRACT Taking seriously Kenneth Burke's claim that identification follows property's logic discloses identification's rootedness not only in nonsymbolic motion but also in attitudinal sensation, that midway realm between sheer motion and symbolic action. Burke's key distinction is among three terms, not two—implying consubstantial (not antithetical) relations between pure persuasion and identification. Thus understood, these relations have implications for the New Rhetoric, in particular for how it frames the question of justice.
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Andres, Laura G. "Kenneth Burke's Theory of Identification: An Essential for Business Communication." Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication 55, no. 3 (1992): 53–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/108056999205500315.
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Jordan, Jay. "Dell Hymes, Kenneth Burke's "Identification," and the Birth of Sociolinguistics." Rhetoric Review 24, no. 3 (2005): 264–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327981rr2403_2.
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Gao, Ying. "On English Ceremonial Speeches from the Perspective of Identification Theory: A Case Study of British Prime Ministers’ New Year Speeches." BCP Social Sciences & Humanities 18 (June 30, 2022): 296–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v18i.999.
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Ceremonial speeches play different roles on different occasions, and Kenneth Burke's rhetorical Identification Theory provides a new perspective for the study of ritual speeches. Based on this theory, this study explores British Prime Ministers’ new year speeches with qualitative and quantitative methods. According to the findings, Identification by Inaccuracy is used most frequently, followed by Identification by Sympathy and Identification by Antithesis, the frequencies of which show no significant difference. The high frequency of Identification by Inaccuracy is mainly due to the repeated use of “we” and intensive depiction of future visions. Apparently, this strategy is in line with the thematic features of new year speeches, i.e., uniting people and looking into the future. This study, examining the rhetorical features of ceremonial speeches with the example of new year speeches, hopes to inspire speech enthusiasts with useful speaking strategies and rhetorical awareness.
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Schrader, Valerie Lynn. "‘Another National Anthem’: Public Memory, Burkean Identification, and the Musical Assassins." New Theatre Quarterly 33, no. 4 (2017): 320–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x1700046x.
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In this article Valerie Lynn Schrader examines the musical Assassins through the rhetorical lenses of public memory and Kenneth Burke's theory of identification. Offering a close textual analysis of the musical's script and cast recording, she argues that Assassins, along with its audiences, serves to co-create a public memory of the men and women who attempted to assassinate Presidents of the United States of America. Her article contends that Assassins creates a chilling consubstantiality between the characters in the musical and theatregoers through Burkean identification, which may cause cognitive dissonance for many audience members. Through identifying key themes in the musical, she argues that these both connect with the assassins' motives and are common human experiences, serving not only to create public memory of the stories, but also to humanize the assassins and create a bond between audience and characters – while the song ‘Something Just Broke’ undermines this connection and encourages audience members to identify with the mourning American public. Valerie Lynn Schrader is Associate Professor of Communications and Interim Director of Academic Affairs at the Schuylkill Campus of the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on rhetorical messages in theatre works, especially musical theatre productions. She is herself a classically trained lyric soprano/soubrette.
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Ivie, Robert L. "Kenneth Burke’s Attitude Toward Rhetoric." Rhetorica Scandinavica, no. 74 (2017): 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.52610/mfeg2857.
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This paper charts a course through Kenneth Burke’s extensive body of works by focusing on his rhetorically inflected theory of social criticism. It progresses from Burke’s ideas about symbolic action and dramatism to a discussion of identification. It features Burke’s definition of man, his treatment of the victimage ritual, and his notion of the comic corrective as three useful heuristics for understanding rhetoric as a vehicle for improving agonistic human relations without sacrificing diversity
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Overall, Joel. "Kenneth Burke and the Problem of Sonic Identification." Rhetoric Review 36, no. 3 (2017): 232–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2017.1318348.
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Crable, Bryan. "“Beat the Devil, Beat the Devil, Beat the Devil, Beat the…”: Kenneth Burke on the Cleansing of Tensions, Both Comic and Tragic." Literature of the Americas, no. 9 (2020): 12–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2020-9-12-42.
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There is no question but that Kenneth Burke transformed twentieth century scholarship in rhetorical studies—although too often scholars’ emphasis on identification has led them to neglect other portions of the Burkean canon with important implications for the theory and criticism of rhetorical discourse. In this essay, therefore, I draw upon Burke’s (ultimately unsuccessful) efforts to craft a follow-up to his groundbreaking volume A Rhetoric of Motives, and do so in order to focus specifically on his writings on catharsis. However, I do so not in order to provide a definitive account of this stage of Burke’s career, nor of his unfinished project on poetics (whatever that might be), but to instead engage a difficult question raised by these writings: are the rhetorical dimensions of catharsis necessarily restricted to the transformation of strictly civic motives? Might, in other words, catharsis act instead upon the troubling byproducts of our existence as “bodies that learn language”—the byproducts that drive our (human) rhetorical existence? In the conclusion of the essay, I flesh out this question through the creation of a “perspective by incongruity”— a juxtaposition between Burke’s writings on catharsis and Anne Carson’s innovative volume of Greek tragedy combining works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, An Oresteia. Ultimately, I argue, this planned incongruity might help us complete Burke’s account of catharsis, and to thereby outline a kind of pollution and cleansing of vital importance to the study of human social life, in all its vital manifestations.
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Tao, Huimin. "The Mechanism of Identification in the External Dissemination of the Discourse of “Community of a Shared Future for Mankind”." English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies 5, no. 5 (2023): p101. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/eltls.v5n5p101.
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The “Community of a Shared Future for Mankind” has emerged as a pivotal notion in contemporary international relations and global governance. Drawing from President Xi Jinping’s public speeches concerning the topic, this article explores the rhetorical strategies by using Kenneth Burke’s Identification Theory. With the help of word cloud API and the Doccano text annotation tool, the research conducts a systematic analysis to delve into the application and tangible impacts of the identification mechanism in the external dissemination of the discourse. It is founded that the strategies of identification by sympathy and inaccuracy are predominant in the discourse, with identification by antithesis as a supplementary method.
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Syarifuddin, Achmad Sigit, and Irwansyah Irwansyah. "Analisis Identifikasi dan Guilt pada Teori Dramatisme Kenneth Burke dalam Film “They Live 1988”." JURNAL LENSA MUTIARA KOMUNIKASI 5, no. 2 (2021): 72–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.51544/jlmk.v5i2.1676.
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According to Burke, Dramatism means humans can learn and understand motives in all human interactions through symbols. Burke sees that the motives behind people's actions are essential for analyzing and finding out why people do and say what they do. Apart from the dramatic Pentad which is one of the important concepts in dramatism, there are identification, guilt and ratio. There are six ways of identification, formal patterns, framing, ambiguous symbols, mystification, and scapegoats. There are two forms of guilt, namely mortification and victimage. There are two forms of guilt, mortification and labeling the enemy or the victim of victimage. This study aims to analyze existing data to present the basic findings of dramatism theory, identification and guilt in the film "They Life 1988". This research was conducted with a qualitative descriptive approach, by analyzing findings from previous research or secondary data which will generate basic findings as the results of the analysis, namely: identifying which there are six parts, namely identification, formal patterns, framing, ambiguous symbols, mystification and scapegoat. Then it generates guilt in which there are two parts, mortification and labeling of the enemy or the victim of vicitimage.
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Yuan, Yetao, Malini Ganapathy, and Mohamed Abdou Moindjie. "The Rhetorical Communication of Identification Theory in the Translation of Chinese News into English." International Journal of English Linguistics 14, no. 1 (2024): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v14n1p1.
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To further understand the external news publicity effect of mainland media, the open-source data mining platform Social Bearing is applied to collect data of China’s 2021 Two Sessions on Twitter platform and relevant reports of the official accounts of Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network and People’s Daily, together with reports on 2020 Two Sessions. It is found that the topics chosen by mainland media are different from that of the Western media, and the acceptance of the reports of the three central mainland media in foreign readers is not remarkably high. Based on this research, this paper applied Kenneth Burke’s identification theory into news translation practice. It shows four translation approaches such as literal translation, amplification, omission, and adaptation can be used in the process of news translation to achieve narrative identification. Results of this study have some significance to translation for China’s global communication.
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Albrecht, James M. "Saying Yes and Saying No: Individualist Ethics in Ellison, Burke, and Emerson." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 114, no. 1 (1999): 46–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463426.
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The allusions to Emerson in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man are usually read as a scathing indictment of Emersonian individualism. Yet even as Ellison satirizes the Emerson canonized in Lewis Mumford's The Golden Day, the career of Ellison's narrator extends a pragmatic tradition of individualism leading from Emerson through Kenneth Burke. Though often accused of ignoring tragic limits, Emerson describes the self as existing only within the material limitations of culture—and thus as always socially implicated and indebted. While Emerson claims that the pursuit of one's own most vital work is a moral end that fulfills one's social duties, Burke and Ellison demand more complex scrutiny of one's ethical connections to others. Burke insists that the social context of our individual acts requires a comic ethics of identification: we must identify with others across social conflicts and recognize how our individual acts may be identified with those conflicts. Ellison's narrator progresses toward this Burkean ethic: in his final confrontation with Mr. Norton (who has recommended Emerson to him), the narrator adopts a mode of communication that asserts the democratic connection of all Americans at the same time that it confronts the systemic discrimination that separates them.
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Kraemer, Don J. "Between Motion and Action: The Dialectical Role of Affective Identification in Kenneth Burke." Advances in the History of Rhetoric 16, no. 2 (2013): 141–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15362426.2013.827596.
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Tendean, Meriell Jade E. "A dramatistic analysis of Indonesian influencers' statements in responding to sexual harassment allegations." International Journal of Communication and Society 4, no. 2 (2022): 235–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31763/ijcs.v4i2.752.
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This article aims to dig deeper and reveal the rhetorical strategies of three influencers who are alleged sexual harassment perpetrators in their statements on social media. Social media has given a way for sexual harassment victims to expose their perpetrators, including those who are public figures. However, the alleged perpetrators are also given the same platform to share their statements. Recently, there have been many sexual harassment allegations against social media influencers and celebrities. These public figures then used the same social media platforms they were already familiar with to publish their statements. The study uses qualitative assessment and observation on video statements from Indonesian influencers, Billy Joe Ava, Gofar Hilman, and Niko Al Hakim. Analyses were made based on Kenneth Burke’s Dramatism theory, defining the pentadic elements, and assessing the guilt and redemption approach, as well as the identification strategy. Findings from the assessment reveal that in addressing the allegations, two pentadic elements are dominantly used, agent and scene, with the aim of identifying themselves with the audience, providing a background of the accusation, and hence maintaining influence on their audience. Moreover, scapegoating is the main redemption strategy, with variations in the chosen scapegoats.
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Huglen, Mark. "Variations of Kenneth Burke's identification/division." Review of Communication 4, no. 3-4 (2004): 187–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1535859042000289441.
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Valdez, Renalyn J., Diondy A. Palagtiw, and Donnie T. Sacueza. "An Analysis of Russel Brand’s Vlog on “The Truth about Pfizer’s Vaccines”." Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication 40, no. 1 (2024): 483–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/jkmjc-2024-4001-27.
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The spread of misinformation is a growing concern in today's digital age. The Vlog by Russel Brand titled "The Truth about Pfizer's Vaccines" features various claims about the safety and efficacy of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. The study sought to answer the question, “How does the Vlog “The Truth about Pfizer’s Vaccines” constructed for public understanding and engagement?” The study used Kenneth Burke’s Dramatism Theory to examine the arguments in Russel Brand’s Vlog. It analyzed both stated and implied messages and made an in-depth look at the underlying reasons and purpose of such messages and meaning-making. In this study, Brand’s Vlog on Pfizer’s vaccines was examined using Burke’s Pentad. The study used a qualitative design with Textual Analysis as a tool. Concepts of construction, understanding, and engagement were examined using Dramatic Pentad while understanding and engagement were analyzed using Identification and Guilt. The Vlog “The Truth about Pfizer’s Vaccines” was constructed for public awareness and engagement, not so much for understanding. The Vlog emphasized the possible conspiracy between academic scientists and pharmaceutical giants. It, however, failed to provide an understanding as to how the system operates given the health crisis, professional and ethical standards of industries and communities involved, and policies, programs, and regulations both in the private and public sectors. Overall, Brand’s Vlog appealed to the public with this formula: Keep the discussion simple, center on the message by repetition, and target the public’s emotions. Keywords: Vlog, dramatism, conspiracy, pharmaceutical industry, Pfizer vaccine.
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Hawhee, D. "Kenneth Burke's Jungle Book." Minnesota Review 2010, no. 73-74 (2009): 171–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00265667-2010-73-74-171.
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Natalia, HALINA Nadežda PIVKINA. "AMERICAN RUSYNS: THE SLAVIC MOTIVE OF THE AMERICAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE. THE EXPERIENCE OF DISCURSIVE DESCRIPTION." Limbaj si context / Speech and Context International Journal of Linguistics, Semiotics and Literary Science 1/2022, no. 14 (2023): 15–24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7632937.
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<em>The discursive practices of describing American Rusyns presented in the works of English-speaking researchers are considered. There are two types of descriptions of the discourse of American Rusyns: discursive-social descriptions and discursive-confessional descriptions. The English-language nominations of Rusyns are considered as elements of frontier semantics. The code of the Rusyn culture integrates with the hierarchically organized American system of communicative codes, forming the semiotics of the American cultural landscape. The American Orthodox discourse becomes part of the American frontier, within which a special language of contact of linguistic consciousnesses is created, which is the basis of a diversified American identity.</em> <em>Descriptions of Rusyns allow, on the one hand, to focus attention on how an ethnic group produces a place, on the other hand, to observe the features of the created metalanguage of the description of Rusyns, to determine how a place is produced with the help of linguistic activity.</em>
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Rueckert, William H. "Kenneth Burke's Encounters with Walt Whitman." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6, no. 2 (1988): 61–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1207.
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Kholiq, Abd. "Kajian Dramatism Theory Kenneth Burke." Madinah: Jurnal Studi Islam 2, no. 2 (2015): 113–18. https://doi.org/10.58518/madinah.v2i2.163.
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Burke's theory compares life to a performance and states that, as in a theatrical work, life requires the existence of an actor, a scene, some tools for the scene, and a goal. This theory allows a rhetorical critic to analyze the speaker's motives by identifying and learning these elements. Furthermore, Burke believes, guilt is the main motive for the speaker, and Dramatism states that a speaker will be most successful when they give their audience a way to erase their guilt.
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Wudel, B. Diane. "Enticements to community: Formal, agonistic and destablizing rhetoric in the Sermon on the Mount." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 29, no. 3 (2000): 275–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842980002900301.
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Kenneth Burke's writings on rhetoric may guide an exploration of how the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew functions as a persuasive act, inviting hearers to identify with the community being formed around a promised kingdom of heaven. Burke's approach provides, first, a way to evaluate how other interpreters have described formal features of the Sermon's rhetoric. Second, Burke's insights help elucidate the Sermon's agonistic elements—its enticements to social identification and detachment. Finally, a reading à la Burke points to the paradoxically destabilizing effects of the Sermon on the Mount's perfectionistic demands.
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Bentz, Valerie Malhotra, and Wade Kenny. "“Body-As-World”: Kenneth Burke's Answer to the Postmodernist Charges against Sociology." Sociological Theory 15, no. 1 (1997): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0735-2751.00024.
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Postmodernism charges that sociological methods project ways of thinking and being from the past onto the future, and that sociological forms of presentation are rhetorical defenses of ideologies. Postmodernism contends that sociological theory presents reified constructs no more based in reality than are fictional accounts. Kenneth Burke's logology predates and adequately addresses postmodernism's valid charges against sociology. At the same time, logology avoids the idealistic tendencies and ethical pitfalls of radical forms of postmodernist deconstruction, which acknowledge neither pre-textual and extratextual worlds nor the ways in which experience is embodied. While not fully articulated, Burke's logology gives primacy to an embodied, social world prior to text (Body-as-World). Sociology can strengthen both its theoretical arsenal and its response to postmodernism by reacknowledging and reclaiming Burke's logology.
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Swartz, Omar. "Kenneth Burke's theory of form: Rhetoric, art, and cultural analysis." Southern Communication Journal 61, no. 4 (1996): 312–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10417949609373027.
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Mohammad, Nadia, and Majid Mgamis. "Reframing “Literature as Equipment for Living:” Kenneth Burke's Theory and the Social Function of Literature." World Journal of English Language 14, no. 5 (2024): 271. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v14n5p271.
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This article delves into Kenneth Burke's seminal essay, "Literature as Equipment for Living," presenting a fresh perspective on literary criticism that underscores the pragmatic, societal, and political roles of literature. Burke posits that literature functions as an active agent, offering viable courses of action in response to worldly matters. Departing from traditional analyses of form and structure, Burke advocates for classifying works based on shared strategies for addressing situations. He contends that literature acts as a navigational tool, aiding in comprehension and interpretation of the world while urging readers to engage with texts for insights and inspiration in confronting life's challenges. Burke's viewpoint underscores the subjective nature of language, reflecting our individual experiences and perspectives on the world. His critical methodology advocates for a comprehensive and nuanced approach to literary critique, expanding the horizons of scholarly considerations.
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Enoch, Jessica. "Becoming Symbol-Wise: Kenneth Burke's Pedagogy of Critical Reflection." College Composition and Communication 56, no. 2 (2004): 272. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4140650.
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Kastely, James L. "Love and Strife." Rhetorica 31, no. 2 (2013): 172–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rh.2013.31.2.172.
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In A Rhetoric of Motives Kenneth Burke revises the traditional understanding of rhetoric as persuasion.He introduces the concept of identification to define persuasion dialectically by locating it in a formal opposition to identification. The ultimate motives that drive this dialectical tension are love and strife. As dialectical creatures, human are drawn toward each other and seek to distinguish themselves from one another. For a world threatened by its own misunderstanding of ambition and its unreflective acceptance of historical identities, Burke's philosophy of rhetoric offers a way to understand what itmeans to be a dialectical being at a particular point of history, and it does so because it has the practical objective of making the world more just.
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Fajaria Menur Widowati and Maharina Novia Zahro. "Pentadic analysis of environmental communication: a case study of East Kalimantan, Indonesia." Jurnal Studi Komunikasi (Indonesian Journal of Communications Studies) 9, no. 1 (2025): 169–84. https://doi.org/10.25139/jsk.v9i1.9162.
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Abstract This research hoped to find out the environmental communication practices in the management of the Wehea protected forest in Nehas Liah Bing Village, East Kutai, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, through the perspective of Kenneth Burke's Dramatism. This research sought human relations in performing symbolic actions by paying attention to the sources, limits, and paradoxes of using symbols, particularly regarding motives in communication actions and revealing discourse contestation among environmental rhetorics. This research used ethnographic communication methods. The data collection was conducted by observation, in-depth interviews, and analysis of archival, textual, or visual data obtained from field research. The data was analysed using Kenneth Burke's Pentad analysis. The researchers conclude that four key actors are involved and six distinct scenes or phases in the cycle of drama related to environmental communication in Nehas Liah Bing Village. Among the four actors, three are environmental actors or rhetors, each with different motives and interests driving their involvement in establishing the Wehea protected forest. Nevertheless, they can collaborate to save the environment. This study's theoretical implication shows that dramatism as a new rhetorical theory can be used in environmental communication studies to explore the relationship between agencies, institutions, and power in certain situations or conjunctions involved in the establishment and management of Indigenous community-based protected forests.
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Gornykh, Andrei A. "Symbolic Action and Communication: Metaphor and Money in Kenneth Burke." Literature of the Americas, no. 9 (2020): 174–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2020-9-174-194.
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The article examines how the social-critical vision of modern society stems from the key notions of Kenneth Burke's conception of “symbolic action”. The bridge between literary criticism and Burke's socio-anthropological constructions is the concept of motive. An authentic source of motives for human action is a metaphor that gives an image that is simultaneously poetic, imaginary and dynamic, moving (in the form of “third term” of the metaphor). The metaphor reveals unexpected, but essential unity of dissimilar things. And in this sense it serves as a model of inter-subjective relations. Group cohesion can be understood as an “extended metaphor” in which all group members have a common “third term”. Thus, Burke brings the fields of anthropology and poetics closer together. A metaphor is a relationship in which the elements do not absorb each other, but reveal the essence of each other, sublate their partiality, contingency, that is make up a collective form. This is the “paradox of substance”. The commonality of a tribe is not an abstraction that arises “after” individuals, but exists in the form of a generic substance in the individuals themselves. This defines the dialectic of identification: the individual coincides with himself by mediation of not-himself (some external “character”). The paradox of substance places symbolic actions in the general field of “symbolic communication,” in which the word is not only an external instrument, but an internal quality of individuals. Poetic imagery is the substance of the social. Metaphor in this capacity is contrasted with money, which, displacing metaphor as a principle of social coherence, undermines truly human motives (utilitarianism instead of communal poetics).
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McMahon, Robert. "Kenneth Burke's Divine Comedy: The Literary Form of The Rhetoric of Religion." PMLA 104, no. 1 (1989): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/462331.
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Seigel, Marika A. "" One little fellow named Ecology": Ecological Rhetoric in Kenneth Burke's Attitudes toward History." Rhetoric Review 23, no. 4 (2004): 388–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327981rr2304_6.
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Brueggemann, Brenda Jo. "Deaf, She Wrote: Mapping Deaf Women's Autobiography." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 120, no. 2 (2005): 577–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900167926.
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I believe, as did one of the greatest Rhe-torical scholars of the twentieth century (or probably any century), Kenneth Burke, that “[t]he human animal, as we know it, emerges into personality by first mastering whatever tribal speech happens to be its particular symbolic environment” (1346). Applying Burke's idea, I am interested in mapping the emergent personality of deaf women writers as they master the tribal speech (and sign too) of their particular region, nation, or era as well as the tribal speech of gender overlaid with the tribal speech of deafness, disability, “normalcy,” and difference.
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Bhusal, Mahendra. "The Rhetoric of Origin: American National Ethos in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." SCHOLARS: Journal of Arts & Humanities 6, no. 1 (2024): 66–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sjah.v6i1.62724.
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This paper examines how Barack Obama ruminates on trials and tribulations from his past and ponders over his root in terms of biracial identity to explore his American ethos in his first memoir Dreams from My Father (1995). The paper argues that Obama struggles hard to locate his ethos out of the complexities of the relationships that his parents underwent in terms of their mixed marriages. Eventually he settles to his American identity, which is essentially biracial. From the perspective of Kenneth Burke's notion of 'identification', Obama evokes an awareness of American national ethos identifying with the American character as such and with this he explores his sense of purpose in life to be a public figure. He asserts that one of the fundamental characters of American national ethos is the biracial or multiracial that emanates from the contemporary American mixed society.
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Kraemer, Don J. "Identification and Property: Burke's and Lincoln's Ratio of Act and Purpose." Advances in the History of Rhetoric 11-12, no. 1 (2008): 35–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15362426.2009.10597379.
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Adamidis, Vasileios. "Mind the Audience: Forensic Rhetoric, Persuasion, and Identification by Reference to the Social Identity of Athenian dikastai." Rhetorica 42, no. 1 (2024): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rht.2024.a925230.
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Abstract: This paper highlights the importance of an audience-centric approach in the study of Athenian forensic rhetoric and leverages insights from Social Identity Theory and Burke's concept of 'identification' to examine courtroom speeches. Litigants, perceiving the Athenian dikastai as a distinct group marked by a salient social identity, rhetorically employed the group's prototypes, norms, and interests to establish their identification—and underscore the opponent's division—with the audience. This prominent role of social identity and the potential for jury bias affecting the large audiences of dikastai prompt a reconsideration of the nature of Athenian trials and suggest that, in addition to upholding the law, Athenian courts functioned as platforms for the imposition of social and legal conformity.
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Popyk, Nadiia. "NARRATIVE OF COSSACK SPIRIT: FOLK SONG «OH, IN THE MOUNTAIN THE REAPERS ARE REAPING» AND ITS RE-SINGING «#МОСКАЛЬ_НЕКРАСІВИЙ» BY JERRY HEIL". Problems of music ethnology 19 (24 жовтня 2024): 121–30. https://doi.org/10.31318/2522-4212.2024.19.319768.
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The relevance of this study lies in identifying how military discourse of Ukraine appears in song texts from different historical periods and analyzing them within the context of its modern state-building. The aim is to compare the narrative of the Cossack spirit through two songs: the historical folk song “Oh on the Mountain and the Reapers Reap” and its modern reinterpretation “#MOSKAL_NEKRASIVYI” by Ukrainian pop singer Jerry Heil. The study uses Kenneth Burke's theory of symbolic social interaction, focusing on key narrative elements: act, scene, agency, agent, and purpose. These elements are first explained literally and then generalized to reflect the rhetoric of military life. In both songs, the primary act is preparation for a possible battle. The agents and the settings consistently emphasize strength and readiness for an impending fight. The purpose is to reveal the enduring essence of Ukrainians, centered on the anticipation of the war. The modern reinterpretation closely follows the plot of the folk song but celebrates the bravery of “modern Cossacks”, referencing contemporary Ukrainian political figures. Since the song is officially “dedicated to the Armed Forces of Ukraine”, this can be viewed as a media-driven substitution of concepts. The analysis examines agency in both historical and modern contexts, focusing on the relationship between characters and their environment. Differences in agents lead to differences in the scene. The Cossack spirit is presented as a communal reflection on Ukraine’s current war time. In modern media, promoting such narratives requires both broad and specific imagery. Therefore, the concept of modern Ukrainians as "Cossacks" is emphasized. Future research should explore what features of modern Ukrainians are identified as Cossack’s ones and what reasons are for assigning non-military people a Cossack characterization.
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Daniel, Plate1* James Hutson2. "Reclaiming the Symbol: Ethics, Rhetoric, and the Humanistic Integration of GAI - A Burkean Perspective." ISRG Journal of Arts Humanities & Social Sciences (ISRGJAHSS) II, no. II (2024): 76–80. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10802908.
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<em>This study delves into the intersection of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and the Humanities, guided by the critical insights of Kenneth Burke, a seminal figure in the study of rhetoric and a vocal critic of scientism and positivism. The skepticism of the American literary theorist towards an uncritical embrace of science and technology, and his concerns over the inclination of the Humanities to adopt scientific methodologies at the expense of traditional forms of inquiry, provide a critical framework for examining the new role played by GAI within the Humanities. By framing these tools in the context of Burkean rhetorical theory, this research argues that AI in general should not be viewed as a foreign invader to the Humanities tradition but as an opportunity for them to reassert their indispensable role in guiding the ethical and purposeful integration of STEM into humanistic studies. Drawing on Burke's concepts of humans as "symbol-using animals" and literature as "equipment for living," the study positions AI as a sophisticated extension of human symbolic action, equipped to engage with ethical considerations and profoundly influence human life. This theoretical grounding underscores the importance of maintaining a humanistic perspective in the development and application of AI technologies, emphasizing the capacity of the Humanities to provide ethical direction and meaningful context to technological advancement. By highlighting Burkean critique of the overreliance on scientific approaches in the Humanities, the study advocates for a balanced integration of AI, where technology enhances rather than replaces traditional humanistic inquiry. This approach not only honors the legacy of the theorist but also addresses contemporary concerns within the Humanities about the ethical implications of these evolving generative technologies, suggesting a collaborative pathway forward that leverages the best of both humanistic and scientific traditions. Through this lens, AI emerges not merely as a tool for innovation but as a catalyst for reaffirming the Humanities' critical role in shaping a technologically advanced society with ethical depth and cultural significance.</em>
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Daniel, Plate1* James Hutson2. "Reclaiming the Symbol: Ethics, Rhetoric, and the Humanistic Integration of GAI - A Burkean Perspective." ISRG Journal of Arts Humanities & Social Sciences (ISRGJAHSS) II, no. II (2024): 76–80. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10802930.
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<em>This study delves into the intersection of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and the Humanities, guided by the critical insights of Kenneth Burke, a seminal figure in the study of rhetoric and a vocal critic of scientism and positivism. The skepticism of the American literary theorist towards an uncritical embrace of science and technology, and his concerns over the inclination of the Humanities to adopt scientific methodologies at the expense of traditional forms of inquiry, provide a critical framework for examining the new role played by GAI within the Humanities. By framing these tools in the context of Burkean rhetorical theory, this research argues that AI in general should not be viewed as a foreign invader to the Humanities tradition but as an opportunity for them to reassert their indispensable role in guiding the ethical and purposeful integration of STEM into humanistic studies. Drawing on Burke's concepts of humans as "symbol-using animals" and literature as "equipment for living," the study positions AI as a sophisticated extension of human symbolic action, equipped to engage with ethical considerations and profoundly influence human life. This theoretical grounding underscores the importance of maintaining a humanistic perspective in the development and application of AI technologies, emphasizing the capacity of the Humanities to provide ethical direction and meaningful context to technological advancement. By highlighting Burkean critique of the overreliance on scientific approaches in the Humanities, the study advocates for a balanced integration of AI, where technology enhances rather than replaces traditional humanistic inquiry. This approach not only honors the legacy of the theorist but also addresses contemporary concerns within the Humanities about the ethical implications of these evolving generative technologies, suggesting a collaborative pathway forward that leverages the best of both humanistic and scientific traditions. Through this lens, AI emerges not merely as a tool for innovation but as a catalyst for reaffirming the Humanities' critical role in shaping a technologically advanced society with ethical depth and cultural significance.</em>
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Pestana, Carla Gardina. "Plymouth Plantation's Place in the Atlantic World." New England Quarterly 93, no. 4 (2020): 588–607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00864.
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When Boston entered its pandemic lockdown in early March, it forced the cancellation of the Congregational Library's symposium “1620: New Perspectives on the Pilgrim Legacy.” With the cooperation of the director of the library, the Rev. Stephen Butler Murray, the four presenters—Carla Gardina Pestana, David Silverman, John G. Turner, and Francis Bremer—agreed to have the QUARTERLY publish revised versions of their talks with Kenneth P. Minkema as the guest editor of the papers. Far from seeing Plimoth as a minor backwater in the English settlement of Massachusetts, each of the essays situates the history of Plymouth Colony in more complex contexts: in its web of Atlantic connections, in the Indigenous identification of Anglo settlement as a cause of mourning, in its participation in the processes of enslavement, and in its larger impact upon the puritan, New England Way.
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Silverman, David J. "Ungrateful Children and Days of Mourning: Two Wampanoag Interpretations of the “First Thanksgiving” and Colonialism through the Centuries." New England Quarterly 93, no. 4 (2020): 608–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00865.
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When Boston entered its pandemic lockdown in early March, it forced the cancellation of the Congregational Library's symposium “1620: New Perspectives on the Pilgrim Legacy.” With the cooperation of the director of the library, the Rev. Stephen Butler Murray, the four presenters—Carla Gardina Pestana, David Silverman, John G. Turner, and Francis Bremer—agreed to have the QUARTERLY publish revised versions of their talks with Kenneth P. Minkema as the guest editor of the papers. Far from seeing Plimoth as a minor backwater in the English settlement of Massachusetts, each of the essays situates the history of Plymouth Colony in more complex contexts: in its web of Atlantic connections, in the Indigenous identification of Anglo settlement as a cause of mourning, in its participation in the processes of enslavement, and in its larger impact upon the puritan, New England Way.
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Turner, John G. "The Yoke of Bondage: Slavery in Plymouth Colony." New England Quarterly 93, no. 4 (2020): 634–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00866.
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When Boston entered its pandemic lockdown in early March, it forced the cancellation of the Congregational Library's symposium “1620: New Perspectives on the Pilgrim Legacy.” With the cooperation of the director of the library, the Rev. Stephen Butler Murray, the four presenters—Carla Gardina Pestana, David Silverman, John G. Turner, and Francis Bremer—agreed to have the QUARTERLY publish revised versions of their talks with Kenneth P. Minkema as the guest editor of the papers. Far from seeing Plimoth as a minor backwater in the English settlement of Massachusetts, each of the essays situates the history of Plymouth Colony in more complex contexts: in its web of Atlantic connections, in the Indigenous identification of Anglo settlement as a cause of mourning, in its participation in the processes of enslavement, and in its larger impact upon the puritan, New England Way.
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Bremer, Francis J. "“after Mr. Robinson's pattern”: Plymouth and the shaping of the New England Way." New England Quarterly 93, no. 4 (2020): 654–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00867.
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When Boston entered its pandemic lockdown in early March, it forced the cancellation of the Congregational Library's symposium “1620: New Perspectives on the Pilgrim Legacy.” With the cooperation of the director of the library, the Rev. Stephen Butler Murray, the four presenters—Carla Gardina Pestana, David Silverman, John G. Turner, and Francis Bremer—agreed to have the QUARTERLY publish revised versions of their talks with Kenneth P. Minkema as the guest editor of the papers. Far from seeing Plimoth as a minor backwater in the English settlement of Massachusetts, each of the essays situates the history of Plymouth Colony in more complex contexts: in its web of Atlantic connections, in the Indigenous identification of Anglo settlement as a cause of mourning, in its participation in the processes of enslavement, and in its larger impact upon the puritan, New England Way.
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Minkema, Kenneth P. "Plimoth at 400 Editor's Introduction." New England Quarterly 93, no. 4 (2020): 586–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_e_00863.
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When Boston entered its pandemic lockdown in early March, it forced the cancellation of the Congregational Library's symposium “1620: New Perspectives on the Pilgrim Legacy.” With the cooperation of the director of the library, the Rev. Stephen Butler Murray, the four presenters—Carla Gardina Pestana, David Silverman, John G. Turner, and Francis Bremer—agreed to have the QUARTERLY publish revised versions of their talks with Kenneth P. Minkema as the guest editor of the papers. Far from seeing Plimoth as a minor backwater in the English settlement of Massachusetts, each of the essays situates the history of Plymouth Colony in more complex contexts: in its web of Atlantic connections, in the Indigenous identification of Anglo settlement as a cause of mourning, in its participation in the processes of enslavement, and in its larger impact upon the puritan, New England Way.
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Rust, John. "The Limits of Inference with Theory: A Review of Wolpin (2013)." Journal of Economic Literature 52, no. 3 (2014): 820–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jel.52.3.820.
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This essay reviews Kenneth I. Wolpin's (2013) monograph The Limits of Inference without Theory, which arose from lectures he presented at the Cowles Foundation in 2010 in honor of Tjalling Koopmans. While I readily agree with Wolpin's basic premise that empirical work that eschews the role of economic theory faces unnecessary self-imposed limits relative to empirical work that embraces and tries to test and improve economic theory, it is important to be aware that the use of economic theory is not a panacea. I point out that there are also serious limits to inference with theory: 1) there may be no truly “structural” (policy invariant) parameters, a key assumption underpinning the structural econometric approach that Wolpin and the Cowles Foundation have championed; 2) there is a curse of dimensionality that makes it very difficult for us to elucidate the detailed implications of economic theories, which is necessary to empirically implement and test these theories; 3) there is an identification problem that makes it impossible to decide between competing theories without imposing ad hoc auxiliary assumptions (such as parametric functional form assumptions); and 4) there is a problem of multiplicity and indeterminacy of equilibria that limits the predictive empirical content of many economic theories. I conclude that though these are very challenging problems, I agree with Wolpin and the Cowles Foundation that economists have far more to gain by trying to incorporate economic theory into empirical work and test and improve our theories than by rejecting theory and presuming that all interesting economic issues can be answered by well-designed controlled, randomized experiments and assuming that difficult questions of causality and evaluation of alternative hypothetical policies can be resolved by simply allowing the “data to speak for itself.” (JEL B41, C18)
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Cherney, James L. "The Rhetoric of Ableism." Disability Studies Quarterly 31, no. 3 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v31i3.1665.
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This essay argues that rhetoric is both the means by which ableist culture perpetuates itself and the basis of successful strategies for challenging its practices. Public demonstrations, countercultural performances, autobiography, transformative histories, and critiques of ableist films and novels all apply rhetorical solutions to the problem of ableism. The study employs Kenneth Burke's theory of identification and Stuart Hall's configuration of ideology to uncover those commonplace "languages of practical thought" that generate and sustain ableist perspectives and ideas. Focusing on the rhetoric of ableism at the level of the warrants used to interpret disability, this article closely examines the way Aristotle's Generation of Animals relies on the equivocation "normal is natural."
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McCarron, Gary. "Lecture 8: Hegemony and Rhetoric Analysis." Scholarly and Research Communication 12, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.22230/src.2021v12n1a377.
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The connection between rhetoric and hegemony leads us back to Kenneth Burke’s work on political critique and the subtle ways discourse shapes political consciousness. This lecture also looks at how Ernesto Laclau connects rhetoric and the theory of articulation; Joseph Nye’s work on soft power; Timothy Borchers’ discourse on the work of rhetorician Dana Cloud; and Robert Ivie’s thoughts on balancing the opposing notions of identification and division. La connexion entre rhétorique et hégémonie nous ramène aux écrits de Kenneth Burke sur la critique politique et les façons subtiles dont le discours forme la conscience politique. Ce cours examine aussi : la manière dont Ernesto Laclau relie la rhétorique et et la théorie de l’articulation; le travail de Joseph Nye sur le soft power (« pouvoir de convaincre »); les réflexions de Timothy Borchers sur l’œuvre du rhétoricien Dana Cloud; et les pensées de Robert Ivie sur l’utilité d’équilibrer les notions opposées d’identification et de division.
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Baumlin, James S. ""Empathy and Abjection after Burke (1): On the Rise and Fall of “Listening-Rhetorics,” 1936–2023"." Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies 5, no. 4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.71106/zepl5788.
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What is it that leads rhetoric to succeed, or fail, as an instrument of persuasion? What is it in human psychology that makes individuals susceptible, or resistant, to rhetorical appeals? What are the moments and movements in recent history that have led theorists to revise their understanding of rhetoric in its aims and techniques? These questions underlie the two-part survey that follows. It was in 1950—at mid-20th century—that Kenneth Burke published his Rhetoric of Motives, whose agonistic model of discourse rested in a group psychology of identification bound to a social anthropology of scapegoating. Through subsequent decades, Western rhetorical theory has stayed in touch with Burkean concepts; methods as diverse as Rogerian argument, Corderian expressivism, and Booth’s “listening-rhetoric” took Burke’s identification as a precursor and starting point. Though their vocabularies diverged, each shared an audience psychology grounded in “empathetic understanding” (Rogers), seeking common ground between opposing factions and the possibility of mutual assent (Booth). For the authors surveyed here wrote in times of war—from World War II and the Cold War to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the post-9/11 “war on terror.” And each wrote in times of social-political unrest, with protests—often violent—raging across U.S. city streets and college campuses. Their collective aim was salutary: to reduce conflict, induce cooperation, and increase social cohesion. And yet, with each version of this “new” rhetoric, a criticism arises. Whereas a rhetoric of empathy seeks to overcome divisiveness, the Burkean model remains agonistic at its core: identification entails division, and vice versa. So, even as the “new” rhetoric evolved, an alternative was being articulated in fields of feminism, postcolonialism, and cultural studies generally: Theirs became a rhetoric, not of identification, but of cultural/bodily difference. Representing what was largely unassimilable in the voice of the subaltern “Other,” their critique of the rhetorics of “empathetic understanding” made these latter seem naïve.
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Baumlin, James S. "Empathy and Abjection after Burke (2): Embodied Narrative and the Resistance against Persuasion." Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies 5, no. 4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.71106/dpbe7469.
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This present essay continues a two-part survey devoted to Kenneth Burke’s agonistic model of rhetoric—specifically, its binary of identification/division among speakers and audiences—and its permutations throughout late-20th century theory. Like Part 1, Part 2 of this double essay asks, What is it in rhetoric that leads it to succeed, or fail, as an instrument of persuasion? The latest advances in cognitive science have rhetorical implications, in that the neurophysiological effects of language (written as well as spoken) can be mapped with seeming precision via the brain’s “mirror neuron system.” This discovery reinforces the role of empathy in contemporary models of “embodied narrative.” Yet a further discovery, the neurophysiological basis of abjection—that is, of visceral responses of rejection, expulsion, and disgust (Kristeva)—reinforces, in some audiences on some occasions, one’s strength of resistance to opposing discourses. It seems that we must learn to speak of persuasion, not as a change of mind, but as a change of brain chemistry. One’s politics, it turns out, often correlates to specific personality traits, which are themselves “hardwired” into individuals’ brain functions where cognitive-affective “triggers” of empathy dominate in some, of abjection in others. It’s not an empathetic “listening-rhetoric” (Booth) so much as a rhetoric-of-resistance that dominates in American popular/political culture. This insight undergirds the political philosophy of “agonistic pluralism” (Mouffe), an emerging theory in politics and the social sciences; Burkean in implication, it’s a theory custom-made for contemporary models of rhetoric. Returning to ethical/ethotic themes introduced in Part 1, this present essay ends with a meditation on public discourse in the United States today.
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Shouse, Eric, and Bernard Timberg. "A festivus for the restivus: Jewish-American comedians respond to Christmas as the national American holiday." Humor 25, no. 2 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2012-0008.
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AbstractDrawing on scholars who have discussed humor's capacity to simultaneously unite and divide (Appel 1996; Mintz 1999; Meyer 2000) and on Kenneth Burke's (1969b) rhetoric of identification and division, this paper describes the rhetorical strategies Jewish-American humorists have used to respond to Christmas as a national American holiday. An examination of Jewish humor about Christmas contributes to the growing literature describing how Jewish humorists have helped shape American popular culture (Bloom 2003; Cohen 1987; Gabler 1988; Limon 2000; Zurawik 2003). In addition, our paper makes a theoretical contribution to the study of humor by expanding upon previous research that has focused on how humor creates unity and division. Specifically, we explain how humor can foster identification and division simultaneously not only between groups, but inside each of us, often resulting in partial forms of identification and division with our humorists.
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Jodlowski, Denise, Barbara F. Sharf, Loralee Capistrano Nguyen, Paul Haidet, and Lechauncy D. Woodard. "‘Screwed for life’: Examining identification and division in addiction narratives." Communication 4, no. 1 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cam.2007.003.
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AbstractIn this study, we investigate the use of narrative in online conversations among persons suffering from chronic opiate addiction and evaluate both its positive and negative uses. Illness narratives, as argued by sociologist Arthur Frank and psychiatrist/medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman, enable patients to give order to life experiences and receive support from others. We wished to explore under what circumstances online support coalesces and breaks apart. The narratives we examined exemplify two topics frequently discussed on the message board: the recovery process and what it means to be ‘clean’. To better understand these narratives from a theoretically based approach, we used the work of rhetorical theorist Kenneth Burke. Burke's description of two human motives, suffering and perfection, led us to an understanding of how unification and division happened within the online community. We found that the recovery narrative primarily embodied the author's suffering and, consequently, received support from other members of the message board. The second narrative centered on what it means to be ‘clean’ through a discussion of the author's desire to court temptation, revealing what Burke calls the rotten nature of perfection. As a result, the author of the narrative provoked disagreements and did not receive support.
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Đurković, Uroš. "Ekokritika i geopoetika: ekopsihološki pejzaži." Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne 1, no. 22 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pss.2022.22.6.
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Based on comparative research on ecocriticism and geopoetics ( Kenneth White) as two theoretical discourses concerning the relationship between literature and environment, the aim of this paper is to explore the connection between literary landscapes and their psychological foundation. Ecocriticism, as a dynamic, complex, and sometimes inconsistent system of thinking about nature and literature, can be enriched byWhite’s geopoetics, which has not only a theoretical but also an important practical dimension. A question of landscape in art is viewed, through these theoretical positions, as one of the crucial moments for personal and collective human self-identification in environment.