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Farías, Joann. "A Burkean logological analysis of Doctrine and Covenants section 88 /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1986. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTAF,37119.
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Behr, Martin. "Continuity and change in the thought of Kenneth Burke." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61124.
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This thesis analyzes Kenneth Burke's rhetoric of identification. I will examine the extent to which Burke's earliest critical writings, which focus on the suasive nature of literary forms, affected the writing of his later critical works, which deal with how language functions as a type of symbolic action. In his later texts, Burke breaks with his earlier concern with literary discourse by attempting to expound a critical theory that accounts for historical change, human motivation and the role of language in collective communities. He argues that language motivates people to identify with a certain sets of beliefs by transcending an opposing set of beliefs. Section One is an account of Burke's earlier conception of ideology in relation to his view of literary discourse. In Section Two the emphasis shifts toward a study of how Burke integrates his notion of ideology with his theory of a rhetoric of identification.
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Veach, Grace. "What the Spirit Knows : Charles Williams and Kenneth Burke." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001877.
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Reed, Meridith. "Kenneth Burke, John Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Aesthetics." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2721.
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Kenneth Burke and John Dewey each published books on aesthetics in the 1930s. These texts present parallel conceptions of aesthetics as holding a distinctly rhetorical role in society. My project is to line up these theories, focusing particularly on two key terms in each theory: Burke's eloquence and Dewey's expression. Together, these two terms explain what constitutes an aesthetic experience and explain how an aesthetic experience can open up individuals in a society to a variety of perspectives and identifications. As individuals are allowed to inhabit the experiences of others through their interactions with art, they are poised to become more cooperative and compassionate members of a democratic society.
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Wood, Nathan D. "Mystic Identifications: Reading Kenneth Burke and “Non-identification” through Asian American Rhetoric." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8482.
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Krista Ratcliffe’s term “non-identification” offers a version of identification that assumes identity is not always identifiable. As an attitude that fosters cross-cultural listening, non-identification asks us to listen to others from a place of “neutrality,” with “hesitancy,” “humility,” and “pause” in order to consider identity’s fluid nature (73). This thesis first argues that this term might also describe speaking strategies premised on non-identifiability. As I’ll show, an inventive non-identification would articulate some rhetorical strategies that neither “identification” nor “disidentification” currently articulate. However, rhetorical scholars need more theoretical and practical guidance for what this kind of speech looks like. So, this thesis also argues why, despite criticism to the contrary, the writing of Kenneth Burke offers an ideal account for inventive non-identification. Burke’s descriptions of the terms “synecdoche function,” the “mystic” and “poetic language” achieve the same effects as Ratcliffe’s non-identification, yet Burke describes these same effects from the perspective of the speaker. Following my re-reading of Burke, I ground the theory of inventive non-identification in a brief rhetorical analysis of Yan Phou Lee’s 1887 autobiography When I Was a Boy in China. By showing how this theory applies to Asian American rhetoric, I conclude that inventive non-identification has utility for the field of rhetoric more broadly.
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Petermann, Waldemar. "Attitudes toward Attitude : Kenneth Burke's views on Attitude." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-27558.
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In this thesis, a review of Kenneth Burke's use of the term attitude in his published works as well as in some unpublished notes, drafts and letters, is performed. Three periods of different usage are found. Early works feature a pervasive attitude with elements of both body and mind. This attitude is then subsumed into the pentad and the physiological connection is diminished, but attitude is given an important function as a connective between action and motion. The later Burke reinstates attitude as central to his theory of symbolic action, reconnects it to the physiological and includes it in the Pentad with parsimony-inducing effect. The attitude is then found to aid rhetorical analysis and show promise in being able to help analyse expressions not wholly in the realm of the conscious, be they in the form of a Bourdieu social practice or barely conscious rhetorical markers in conversation.
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Qvist, Susanne. "Den levande staden : En retorisk studie av motiv i Per Anders Fogelströms Mina drömmars stad." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för retorik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-217321.
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Jag har i denna uppsats, med hjälp av Kenneth Burkes pentadmodell, undersökt motiv i Per Anders Fogelströms Mina drömmars stad. För att analysera framställningen av individens förhållande till samhället har jag även använt mig av Burkes identifikationsbegrepp och hans tanke om att syften bakom människors och karaktärers handlingar kan bottna i en strävan efter rening av en skuld vi bär inom oss.Genom att undersöka fem olika sekvenser, kronologiskt jämnt fördelade i romanen, har jag sökt formulera tänkbara motiv som ligger bakom textens budskap. För att undersöka hur scen och agent interagerar har jag använt mig av Burkes begrepp ratio, det vill säga förhållandet mellan dessa två komponenter i pentaden. Resultatet består i att Fogelström ämnar berätta historien om de människor som skapade grunden för dagens välfärdssamhälle, vars historia sällan belyses. Han beskriver ett förhållandevis obarmhärtigt samhälle, en agent, som tar beslut om sina invånares livsvillkor. Genom sin text fastslår Fogelström att det inte är människan som är ond, utan samhällets oförmåga att förse alla med materiell och ekonomisk trygghet som kan få människan att handla omoraliskt. Räddningen finns i medmänskligheten och solidariteten människor emellan. Det finns alltså, trots stundvis brutala skildringar av fattigdom, ett positivt budskap i romanen. Människan står inte totalt handlingsförlamad inför stadens hänsynslöshet, utan kan genom uppvisad medmänsklighet skapa bättre förutsättningar för varandra. Människorna är också likvärdiga inför samhället, oavsett klasstillhörighet.För att urskilja med hjälp av vilka grepp Fogelström gör detta har jag använt mig av Aristoteles klassiska begrepp ethos, pathos och logos. Fogelström blandar genomgående historisk fakta med fiktion i romanen vilket inger ett trovärdigt ethos. Han vinner mottagarens förtroende genom detta starka författarethos, med vilket han låter påvisa sina kunskaper om Stockholms historia, men framförallt genom att väcka pathos hos läsaren. Fogelström vädjar till mottagarens känslor genom ordval, retoriska stilfigurer och fokalisering genom flera av romanens karaktärer. Fokaliseringen tillåter läsaren att se händelseförlopp genom karaktärernas egna ögon vilket skapar en förståelse för individernas känsloliv och handlingar.
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Archias, Susan Dana 1953. "Kenneth Burke's approach to language and theory construction." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276653.
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This thesis explains the "systematic" refinement of Kenneth Burke's theoretical process through his development of a theological paradigm for the dramatistic vocabulary. It describes the merging metaphysical and dialectical issues in Burke's critical thought and locates a theoretical shift in A Grammar of Motives, where Burke posits the prototype for his key term, "act." The study then interprets the formal treatment of the prototype in The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology, and demonstrates how the derived paradigm maintains and advances the convergence of metaphysics and dialectics, and how it reestablishes the interaction between language structure and usage in two types of definition or explanation (temporal-logical, narrative-tautological). This thesis also describes the purpose and functional range of Logology.
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Carleton, Lee A. "Rhetorical Ripples: The Church of the SubGenius, Kenneth Burke & Comic, Symbolic Tinkering." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3667.
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Humor has long been an effective way to engage difficult sociopolitical topics in a way that avoids polemical confrontation and provides opportunity for pleasure, catharsis and self-knowledge. In the context of today’s polarized politics and protest, creative satirical performance that deploys “symbolic tinkering” can provide a “comic frame of reference” that, according to Kenneth Burke, more effectively conveys its message while providing reflexive insight. The satirical Church of the SubGenius naturally practices this rhetorical frame in their multimedia creations. Using the lens of Burke’s Attitudes Toward History, this essay is an analysis of SubGenius rhetoric with a focus on their Hour of Slack live radio program and the book Revelation X to provide an informative example of Burke’s comic frame applied, and clarify the nature of its utility by exploring the rhetorical impact of the Church of the SubGenius and the relevance of its “comic corrective.” Politically cynical, SubGenii are nevertheless keen cultural critics whose sophisticated use of a complex comic rhetoric warrants more serious attention.
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Gonzaga, Deusimar. "O drama como método de investigação de linguagem: uma interpretação do dramatismo de Kenneth Burke." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2015. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5090.
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This study aims at presenting and discussing some of the aspects of dramatism, method of analysis of human relations and mainly of the acts of the language and of the thinking, as it is presented by the North American philosopher and literary critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993), from the years 1930 to 1960. Practically unknown in our language, Kenneth Burke‟s name and of his dramatism are compulsory presences in the recent compendiums which deal with the studies of performance and of cultural performances, for the comparison and the relation they establish between everyday life and the drama and thus require be better known. Among many theorists, Burke‟s works have influenced the literary critics Harold Bloom (1930) and Susan Sontag (1933-2004), his student at the University of Chicago, and mainly the theoretical founding of the sociologist Erving Goffman (1922-1982), being that in his studies of everyday life as well as in his “dramaturgical approach”. As it is implied from dramatism, we are not only language users, we are also used by it and language determines our actions. Dramatism is established as an instrument of analysis of language as symbolic action from five key terms (dramatistic pentad): the act in itself, what has been done; the agent of the act, the actor, who performed the act; the scene (the place, the where); the agency, the means/instruments or how the action is performed, or even the autonomous capability of people to make their own choices; and the purpose. The act is the central term around which the five categories of analyses are organized (pentad) and the investigation of the motives of the action is the fundamental strategy of the dramatistic analyses. Burke proposes that the field of observation of the human action and of its innumerable combinations, the transpositions and the transformations among the terms of the cited pentad, makes it possible for an analysis of the human action that has drama as its central term. Dramatism attempts to answer the questions of how human actions can be explained, and mainly how these actions are determined by the symbolic capability. Dramatism becomes a central element in the analysis of human theatricality, of the human being in performance.
Este estudo tem o objetivo de apresentar e discutir alguns aspectos do dramatismo, método de análise das relações humanas e principalmente dos atos da linguagem e de pensamento, tal como apresentado pelo filósofo e crítico literário norte-americano Kenneth Burke (1897- 1993), entre os anos de 1930 a 1960. Praticamente desconhecido em nossa língua, o nome de Kenneth Burke e seu dramatismo são presenças obrigatórias nos recentes compêndios que abordam os estudos da performance e das performances culturais, pela comparação e relação que estabelecem entre a vida cotidiana e o drama e necessitam ser melhor conhecidos. Entre tantos teóricos, seus trabalhos influenciaram os críticos literários Harold Bloom (1930) e Susan Sontag (1933-2004), sua aluna na Universidade de Chicago, e principalmente a fundamentação do sociólogo Erving Goffman (1922-1982), seja em seus estudos da vida cotidiana como em sua “abordagem dramatúrgica” (dramaturgical approach). Como se infere, a partir do dramatismo, não somos apenas utilizadores da linguagem, somos também utilizados por ela, ela determina nossas ações. O dramatismo se estabelece como um instrumento de análise da linguagem como ação simbólica a partir de cinco termos chave (pentad dramatístico): o ato em si, o que foi feito; o agente do ato, o ator, quem realizou o ato; a cena (o lugar, o onde); a agência, os meios/instrumentos ou como se realiza a ação, ou ainda a capacidade autônoma das pessoas fazerem suas próprias escolhas; e o propósito. O ato é o termo central em torno do qual se organizam as cinco categorias de análise (pentad) e a investigação dos motivos da ação é a estratégia fundamental da análise dramatística. Burke propõe que o campo de observação da ação humana e de suas incontáveis combinações, as transposições e as transformações entre os termos do citado pentad, possibilitem uma análise da ação humana que tem o drama como termo central. O dramatismo procura responder as questões de como podem ser explicadas as ações humanas e, principalmente, como estas ações são determinadas pela capacidade simbólica. O dramatismo torna-se elemento central na análise da teatralidade humana, do ser humano em performance.
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Dilber, Anton. "Henry V - en ärans man : En dramatistisk analys av Sankt Crispiani dag-talet i Shakespeares Henry V." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-10971.
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The purpose of this essay is to understand the rhetoric presented by Henry V in Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s day speech. More specifically, it examines the speech from a "dramatistic" point of view, i.e. the way Henry V is labeling agent, scene, act, agency and purpose in the narrative that his rhetoric constitutes. These labels are in themselves strategic spots, allowing the rhetorician to stage a reality that seeks to promote certain ways of thinking, feeling and acting that are beneficial to him. By examining these labels closely, we gain knowledge of their workings and – perhaps more importantly – their interchangeability. The analysis is based on Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic pentad and his ideas on how dialectical transformation can deepen our understanding of certain representations of reality. The methodology used is mostly that of Kenneth Burke when dealing with the elements of the pentad and its transformations, found in his work A grammar of motives. But it is also inspired by Hahn & Morlando’s (1979) Burkean analysis of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address. The main conclusion is that Henry V overcomes his rhetorical obstacles (his men’s lack of motivation and questioning of the war) by reducing his narrative to the purpose. This purpose (and key term) is "honor", treated by Henry V as a term primarily rooted in the act, which is beneficial to his cause, since it allows men of all ranks to view themselves capable of gaining honor by performing the act of fighting. Furthermore, his focus on honor (and its dreaded counterpart – mediocrity and unmanliness) has the added side effect of drawing attention from some of his men’s critique of the war.
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Dagli, Kinjal J. "The Gujarat carnage of 2002 a rhetorical analysis /." Click here for download, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1212795411&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Day, Stacy Lyn. "The Rhetoric Of Nostalgia: Reconstructions of Landscape, Community, and Race in the United States' South." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195614.
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My dissertation analyzes the rhetorical nature of nostalgia within American discourse communities. To accomplish this I analyze the construction and manipulation of nostalgia at the Middleton Place Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina, and in Alan Lomax's memoir, The Land Where the Blues Began. Nostalgia is an emotional response to displacement and occurs when an individual is separated either physically or emotionally from a specific time and place. Because an individual cannot simply return to the place and moment that they long for, nostalgia is hard to remedy and easy to manipulate. The danger of nostalgia is that although it seems individual, it is controlled by social expectations. Because nostalgia can be socially controlled and manufactured, it serves the communal needs of a society rather than the needs of the individual. Therefore, nostalgia can entrench an individual even more deeply into the constructions of their society. In this manner, nostalgia acts as a mechanism of restraint in society, and history based upon or associated with nostalgia becomes a history of containment.My project argues that we recognize the rhetorical work achieved by nostalgia. Three elements must be present if nostalgia is to be rhetorical: it must be purposefully evoked, satiated, and impact the community. Here I define rhetorical activity as any activity that seeks to persuade an individual or a community towards any action. This project analyzes how sites of public memory evoke and satiate nostalgia in their visitors, and reveals the actions that sites request of their visitors. I argue that these sites familiarize their visitors with a time and a place that the visitor cannot have full access to. Because of this, the visitor is displaced and nostalgia is evoked. Sites of public memory then respond to that same nostalgia through the presentation of values, ideals, and beliefs. Consequently, visitors depart sites of public memory with reinforced and realigned values and--due to their newly acquired discourse community--a community of fellow participants. It is in this way that public sites of memory evoke nostalgia for rhetorical ends.
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Kuroiwa-Lewis, Nathalie Marie. "Oedipus, Runaway Planes, and the Violence of the Scapegoat: A Burkean Analysis of Catharsis in the Rhetoric of Tragedy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193741.
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In this dissertation, I develop a theory of rhetorical catharsis and apply this theory primarily to George W. Bush's rhetoric of the War on Terror in Iraq. Contrary to the standard Aristotelian perspective of catharsis as the "purging of pity and fear" that brings relief and resolution to an audience, I turn to Kenneth Burke's claim that catharsis is tied to the scapegoating process and argue that catharsis is the purging and projection of one's trauma to a victim who serves as the sacrificial vessel for one's pain. I thus redefine catharsis as the purging of trauma that plays a key role in catharsis and leads to the victimage and scapegoating of the Other in language and public life.To explore how rhetorical catharsis functions in language use, I analyze the concept of a rhetorical catharsis through literature, presidential rhetoric, and print media and show how catharsis operates in the rhetoric of war, particularly that of President Bush's war on terror in Iraq. In addition to Kenneth Burke, I draw on scholars such as Rene Girard, Deborah Willis, Terry Eagleton, Robert Ivie, Allen Carter, Robert McChesney, and Bartholomew Sparrow, among many others. I argue that communities experiencing tragedy use language to name people and entire nations as the scapegoat for their ills.By understanding how language makes possible the victimage and scapegoating of vasts groups of people and even entire nations in times of national trauma, I offer ways of speaking about trauma that may help redirect the violent impulse of catharsis.
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Stewart, John. "A Burkean Method for Analyzing Environmental Rhetoric." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2291.
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The work of Kenneth Burke provides a method of rhetorical analysis that is useful in terms of bringing features of texts to the surface that are not readily apparent, such as how they produce identification in their audiences, and in revealing rhetorical factors related to but outside the text, for example the authors' motives. Burke's work is wide-ranging and open to many interpretations, so it can be difficult to apply. This study condenses some of his more important concepts into a simplified method which has several practical applications; it focuses on how Burke's theories can be applied to analyzing environmental texts, and helps reveal how those texts are rhetorically effective. This method is also shown to be useful for rhetoricians and other students of language in analyzing the motives and meanings behind complicated texts. An example analysis is developed in detail to demonstrate the utility of this approach for analyzing environmental rhetoric and help clarify how to apply it to other texts. A publication by the Center for Ecoliteracy (CEL), a nonprofit organization engaged in environmental education, provides the basis for a concrete example of applying this method to a current work of environmental rhetoric. The CEL serves as an example of current environmental organizations and their rhetoric, and a Burkean analysis of its publications begins by revealing some of the principles operating in the texts that make them rhetorically effective. This analysis also goes beyond basic dialectics to question how the texts function as "symbolic action" and how they fit into Burke's hierarchic system of language. The method developed in this study not only determines how the text produces identification in an audience, but also the motives behind producing the text. The CEL's publications are good representative examples of current environmental writing, so the conclusions drawn from an analysis of the CEL's texts can be applied to other environmental rhetoric.M.A.
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Watson, Paul Joseph. "A world with two moons an analysis of reader identification /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2010. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Iuli, Maria Cristina. "The human is the limit. Modernity and the ideology of the human in late American Modernism Kenneth Burke, Nathanael West, and Richard Wright /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3252771.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2007.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 18, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0571. Adviser: Thomas Foster.
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Dennison, James A. "Rhetorical criticism and the development of dogmatic statements." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Schoen, Steven W. "The Rhetoric of Evidence in Recent Documentary Film and Video." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4399.
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Documentary is a genre of film that portrays "real" events using depictions that connote the objectivity and facticity implied by the processes of photorealism. Many contemporary documentary theorists and critics observe a constitutive problem in this ethos: despite the apparent constructions and agendas of documentary filmmaking, the framing and assumption of documentary as a window on the world tend to naturalize its own constructions as "real." Critics who engage documentary trace the multitude of ways this problem plays out in particular films. These projects yield many important insights, but they most often approach documentary as a form of inherently deficient representation fraught with ethical questions-- questions created by the frame and ethos of objectivity it fails to achieve. Are events portrayed truthfully? Are people depicted fairly? Are filmmakers misrepresenting?
In this study I seek to show that a rhetorical approach to documentary shifts the critical focus to instead examine how documentary constructions and images work as evidence in the claims and rhetorical agendas of documentary. I study recent film texts (2000-2012) that explicitly and primarily structure their documentary materials as evidence for the truth of an argument or interpretation, and I argue that documentaries, when they work as documentary, establish and verify their depictions as evidence by drawing on the elements of their "scene." I use Kenneth Burke's dramatistic approach to observe that the "real world" as depicted in documentary is at once experienced as representation of the world outside the documentary, but also constructed as the scene of a dramatization. Understanding the dramatism of documentary helps me to characterize what I call a "rhetoric of evidence" that may be particular to documentary expression. In the films I study documentary "scene" interacts at key moments and particular ways to locate the events of films in the "real world," not just as evidence that something is real, but also as meaningful for particular arguments and rhetorical moves.
This study reveals the often extremely subtle ways that documentaries wield the influence of "truth," and also offers filmmakers an understanding of how evidence might be deployed more deliberately to present a social world that is open for transformation.
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Bruér, Axel. "Mellan digitala och fysiska världar : En utredning av immersionens och realismens retorik i kommersiella datorspel." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-24725.
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This master thesis examines commercial video games and their relation to the concept of immersion and realism. Games as a communicative medium is quite a new area of interest within rhetorical research in Sweden. Most of the research conducted has, however, been focused on gaming and formation on opinion – games that explicitly tries to persuade the player, unlike commercial games that focus on entertainment, that is. But that does not mean that commercial games cannot influence us. From time to time we can read about video games in the press and the discussions they generate. Most recently, China has banned the Swedish video game Battlefield 4 when Chinese government officials was claiming that the game portrays the Chinese military in an unfair manner. Thus we seem to ascribe meaning to the things that happen to us in the digital world, and that what happens in the digital world also has effects in the physical world, which the example clearly implies. With all the advanced gaming consoles today, I often find that game journalists and game developers in many contexts are talking about realism and immersion as two concepts that make up a good gaming experience. But what is realism and immersion: what does it mean and how do they relate to each other, and what kind of rhetorical impact do they really have on the player in the game? Although there is more research about commercial games and rhetoric in an international context, there is no one to my knowledge that has been exploring the concept of immersion and realism in games in this way. In this essay I argue that it is crucial to understand immersion and realism in order to fully understand the video game medium and its persuasive aspects. By examining three popular games Battlefield 4, Grand theft auto V, and The last of us, and by applying the theories of Nelson Goodman and Kenneth Burke to my examination, my aim is to increase the understanding of the effect of realism and immersion in games. I find that there are several ways that rhetoric can help us in understanding the two concepts. Both realism and immersion could be seen as something that enables the creation of identification within the realms of gaming. My suggestion is that we should understand realism as something that is enabled by the use of symbols and that it is enabled through the use of procedures in gaming. While my other suggestion is to perceive immersion as something that transfer the player from the couch and into the game world through argumentation and narrative. Both realism and immersion is something that make the player feel that he or she is one with the characters, the events and the story in the game.
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Capua, Brighton Joan. "Mommy Blogs and Rhetoric: Reading Experiences That Shape Maternal Identities." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3596.
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The transition to motherhood is difficult and jarring for many women. Not only does this transition demand life-altering changes to a woman's life, but especially in more recent times, this transition offers nothing but uncertainty. As the role and understanding of women continues to change, what motherhood means becomes increasingly difficult to define; additionally, the traditional narratives of stay-at-home mothers who are always happy to do housework and nurture their children no longer apply for many 21st-century women, leaving new mothers feeling uncertain about who they are and who they want to become. Since the turn of the century, mothers have turned to the blogosphere to document and share the events of their everyday lives, making the blogosphere a space for mothers to share the highs and lows of modern family life with their family, friends, and other mothers. The scholarship published on mommy blogs suggests that for the writers of these blogs, the act of blogging provides writers with the opportunity to literally revise the events that occur in their lives on their blogs, which allows them to actively shape and create their maternal identities. In turn, their blogs are read, complicated, and validated by a community of other readers, which implicitly suggests that readers are being affected in some way by their reading experiences. Although the relationship between the blog and the blog writer has been given adequate attention in the scholarship on mommy blogs, the relationship between the blog and the blog reader has not been fully explored. Consequently, my research attempts to explain how a reader's perception of her maternal identity is influenced by her reading experiences. By applying Kenneth Burke's theory of literary form to the public texts of mommy blogs, I suggest that readers are affected in equally profound ways as the bloggers themselves. Looking at reader responses through Burke's theory of form demonstrates that the act of reading a mommy blog allows readers to experience life as someone else lives it, which often reveals a gap between the reader's real experiences and her vicarious experience reading. This space prompts a shift in attitude in readers; however, these shifts vary from reader to reader. Some readers may feel inspired, while others feel envious or inadequate by the same blog, which suggests that either way, a reader's perception of her maternal identity has changed. And although these shifts depend in part on the experience offered by the blog, their response reflects their own experiences of motherhood and expectations for how motherhood should be represented, making mommy blogs ultimately a place where readers actively shape their maternal identities as well.
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Wright, Courtney J. "The Cultural Rhetorics of After-Dinner Speaking." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1467997152.
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Isaksen, David Erland. "Indexing and Dialectical Transcendence: Kenneth Burke's Critical Method." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3091.
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Kenneth Burke has been described as arguably the most important rhetorician and critical theorist of the twentieth century, and yet an important part of his scholarship has been generally overlooked by the academic community. The pentad has become the most prominent "Burkean" framework for analyzing texts, yet Kenneth Burke himself preferred "a more direct" way of approaching texts which he named "indexing." This thesis recreates this method from the pieces found in his scholarly writing, personal correspondence, and the papers his students produced for the class he taught at Bennington College. Kenneth Burke believed indexing could uncover the "pattern of experience" or "motivational structures" a text embodies, and thereby help people become aware of the persuasive power different texts have. The method of indexing has two parts: 1. Finding the implicit equations in a text, and 2. Tracking the hierarchies of terms and God-terms in those equations. Identifying equations in a text starts with finding "key terms" in a text, meaning terms which carry special significance as indicated by their intensity and frequency of usage. One then tracks the context of these terms throughout a text to find which other words frequently occur together with these words. The second step, tracking hierarchies of terms, is done by finding how the terms in the equations relate to each other in a hierarchy. We start with specific and move upward to more general terms. On the top of the pyramid we find the God-term, which is the driving motivation and ground of all possibility in the text. Kenneth Burke hoped his method of indexing could help us understand the power language and motivational structures have to drive human action, and that we could question our own motivational structure as well as that of others and of the communities we operate in.
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Dagnell, Lars. "Det är inte vi som har brutit mot mänskliga rättigheter : En kriskommunikationsanalys av fallet TeliaSonera utifrån Kenneth Burkes pentadanalys." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för retorik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-227504.
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Hill, Christopher Austin. "“But It Was Changing,” “And Now I Can’t Go Back”: Reflections of a Changing Ireland In the Work of Conor McPherson." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274909465.
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Farnworth, Xanthe Kristine Allen. "Burke, Dewey, and the Experience of Aristotle's Epideictic: An Examination of Rhetorical Elements Found in the Funerals of Lincoln, Kennedy, and Reagan." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2155.
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This article examines the role of epideictic rhetoric as a tool for promoting civic virtue in the public realm through the application of Kenneth Burke's theory of identification and John Dewey's explanation of an aesthetic experience. Long the jurisdiction of Aristotle's logical arguments, civic discussion usually works within the realm of forensic or deliberative persuasion. However, scholarship in the last fifty years suggests there is an unexplored dimension of Aristotle's discussion of epideictic and emotion that needs to be examined in an attempt to identify its usefulness as a tool for examining human experience and practical behavior in the political realm. I attempt to add to the discussion by exploring the presidential funerals of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan as opportunities for a nation to display a hero's virtues as extensions of society's virtues. Virtues often define what a nation considers good which, in turn, influences the nature of the discussion and often determines political action.
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Boyce, Tara Brock. "Kenneth Burke as Educator: What His Theories of Aesthetic Form and (Non-Symbolic) Motion/(Symbolic) Action Suggest for Teachers in the Literature Classroom." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3708.
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Burke scholars oftentimes overlook Burke's fundamental role as educator and how his work can and should be applied to the classroom. This paper explores Burke's theoretical works and centers on two concepts important to developing rhetorical skills necessary for functioning and participating in a democratic society: his theory of aesthetic form and his distinction between motion and action. Specifically, this paper (1) clarifies these concepts and explains how they relate to each other and the emotional experience of literature, and (2) demonstrates how these concepts work together to imply a new method of practicing rhetorical criticism in the literature classroom necessary to meet Burke's goals of education: to help students become critically aware of the symbolic influences working upon them and to make critical judgments about them. To do that, I explain Burke's theory of form outlined in Counter-Statement, as clarified in additional texts, and how this form engages readers in a sequential and dialogical process, which creates in readers a specific emotional experience. I discuss how this experience subjects those who encounter form to what I describe in Burke's terms as a "motional" and consequently passive experience. I then discuss how practicing a method of reflection during and after the experience of form can help subject this experience to critique, into what Burke defined as the realm of "action"—conscious, deliberative choice.
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Grau, Brenda M. "Beyond Performance: Rhetoric, Collective Memory, and the Motive of Imprinting Identity." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5028.
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This thesis reconsiders Maurice Halbwachs' theory of collective memory in terms of rhetoric. My purpose is to examine specifically how fading generations conform the present to the past as they fight to maintain and defend their collective identities. Although rhetoric and memory studies have often focused on the complex matters of national collectives, Halbwachs was also concerned with the individual and his or her interaction among those groups that matter in everyday living and memory's role in generational shifts that slowly transform culture. Halbwachs' theory helps determine exactly how attempts at conflict resolution are sometimes guarded defenses against threats to one's personal and collective identity. In contrast to the generally accepted use of memory as selectively adapting the past for present purposes, this protection of identity may require the present to remain faithful to one's past. To examine how memory and rhetoric are complementary, I draw a parallel between Maurice Halbwachs' collective memory theory and Jim Corder's notion of individual identity as historical narrative. Then, in further retracing Kenneth Burke's influence on Corder's work, I also compare Halbwachs' social constructionist view of memory to Burke's theories of symbolicity and identification. Finally, I apply these theories to the recent 2012 debate in Ybor City, Florida over the Spanish spelling of Seventh Avenue in which passing generations struggle to preserve their identity and sense of belonging in the changing social milieu. In demonstrating how people seek a more permanent sense of identity articulated through memory, this debate offers an alternative to the theory of identity as a rhetorical performance negotiated in the present.
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Mays, Christopher. "The Failure to Meet “The Challenge of Our Time”: The Demise of Bill Clinton’s Plan For Universal Health Care." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1207252348.
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Shetzline, David William. "Quantum dialogues : the rhetorics of religion and the metaphors of postmodern science /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978254.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 309-316). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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McKinney, Joshua Evans. "Persuasive Performance: Articulating a Space Between the Disciplines of Rhetoric and Performance Studies." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6018.
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This work explores persuasive performances, or performances which are wrought in order to affect changes in the thoughts, attitudes, emotions, ideas, beliefs, and opinions of others. Such performances are located in a space between the disciplines of performance studies and rhetoric. This work offers one way in which such performances might be better understood by proposing a model of negotiation comprised of the techniques of rhetorical dramatism and performance studies. A political debate and parts of Shakespeare's The Tempest are analyzed as examples using the model. This work represents an invitation to scholars of the disciplines of rhetoric and performance studies to act together -- to consubstantiate-- in order to better explore the space between their disciplines.
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Teusch, Jacqueline Aquino. ""Making Ourselves Over in the Image of the Imagery": Overcoming Alienation Through Poetic Expressions of Experience." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4131.
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My focus for this essay is on understanding the rhetorical process that occurs when people come together despite their differences—that is what rhetoric is all about. Kenneth Burke argues that this process, for alienated people especially, happens poetically, more than semantically because there are too many differences to overcome semantically between alienated people and the dominant community. This essay is about how the rhetorical process of identification as described by Burke helps us to explain how we cross barriers that divide people who are different to create moments of mutual understanding—identification. In this essay, I look at the experience of reading Gloria Anzaldúa's work from the rhetorical perspective that Burke's theory of rhetorical identification provides. In the case of Borderlands, Anzaldúa helps us understand how an alienated person can prompt a momentary, present space of shared experience through poetic language.
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Hambrick, Margaret 1959. "The Language of Peace: A Burkeian Analysis of the Peace Rhetoric of William Sloane Coffin, Jr." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332840/.
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The purpose of this research was to identify the motives and use of language of William Sloane Coffin, Jr., president of SANE/FREEZE organization. The rhetorical elements of his peace speeches between the years 1978-1988 were analyzed using Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad as a method of analysis.
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Berndtsson, Tim. "Stilbrottning : Om stilbrott som figur, funktion och tendens i modern svensk poesi – Werner Aspenström, Kristina Lugn, Katarina Frostenson, Aase Berg." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-179449.
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Midfjäll, Hanna. "Människan bakom maskinen : En studie av hur subjektet "gruvarbetaren" retoriskt konstitueras i Sara Lidmans Gruva." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för retorik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-230490.
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Patrón, Galindo Pedro. "Inclusión social, ¿nueva fase política en el Perú o eslogan de campaña?" Politai, 2011. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/92767.
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La ‘inclusión social’ está de moda, pero ¿qué significa? El concepto es analizado en este artículo a través de los lineamientos del mercadeo político y los postulados de Kenneth Burke, teórico de la retórica. Teniendo como marco la más reciente campaña presidencial en el Perú, el objetivo del presente artículo es analizar hasta qué punto ‘inclusión social’ es un postulado estratégico o algo meramente coyuntural. Para ello, el análisis discursivo considera tanto elementos de la campaña del Partido Nacionalista Peruano (PNP) como promesas políticas del gobierno del presidente Humala, tal como la creación del Ministerio de Desarrollo e Inclusión Social.
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Singer, Ross B. "Ethics of Identification in the Organizational Production of the War on Terror: The Rhetoric of the U.S. Department of Agriculture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1211410751.
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Malcolm, Nigel I. "One More River to Cross: The Therapeutic Rhetoric of Race in the Post-Civil Rights Era." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001199.
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Breckenridge, Adam. "Acts of Rebellion: The Rhetoric of Rogue Cinema." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5191.
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The purpose of this project was to articulate a definition and understanding of the emerging genre of rogue cinema through the lens of rhetorical theory. To this end, I lay out a theoretical groundwork based principally on the works of Kenneth Burke and Slavoj Zizek to build a definition and to analyze the works of four filmmakers whose work could be considered rogue: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Dusan Makavejev, Lars von Trier and Werner Herzog.
The first chapter is dedicated to articulating the theorists I use and showing how they can be used to examine rogue films. The second chapter is dedicated to the films of Jodorowsky, focusing in particular on his films Fando y Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain, looking at how these films form a critique of our conventional views of religion and spirituatity. Chapter three looks at Makavejev's films WR: Mysteries of the Organism and Sweet Movie and discusses how they undermine the capitalist/communist dichotomy that has defined most of 20th century politics. Chapter four examines Lars von Trier's films Europa and Dancer in the Dark, framing them in particular with the Dogme movement and looking at how von Trier rebels against cinematic convention. The last chapter looks at Herzog's films Aguirre: Wrath of God and Stroszek and discusses how Herzog blends fiction and reality in ways that question our cultural and moral values.
Since little has been written on rogue cinema to date my aim here has been to help develop rogue cinema as a concept and begin the work of building a theoretical basis for the idea of this as a genre. In my conclusion I suggest avenues for future scholars to expand on this idea and discuss what further work needs to be done for rogue cinema to become an accepted idea.
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Rowan, Stephen Charles. "A dancing of attitudes : Burke’s rhetoric on Shakespeare." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25965.
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Since F.S. Boas coined the term in 1896, All's Well That Ends Well, Troilus and Cressida, and Measure For Measure have been generally accepted as "problem plays," and many critics have offered biographical, thematic, and formal explanations of why these plays are so "dark."
In this thesis, I accept that these plays are "problems" and I propose a rhetorical explanation for dissatisfaction with them, especially with their endings. Drawing on Kenneth Burke's philosophy of literary form and his anthropology of man as the symbol-using animal, I show that in these plays Shakespeare frustrates the expectations of an audience for a definite ending through death or marriage which would define the "terms" characterized in each play; secondly, he provides no scapegoat whose victimage would allow the audience to recognize an order clearly proposed for its acceptance; finally, he supplies no symbol of order which credibly demonstrates its power to establish a renewed society.
As rhetoric, these plays show an intense "dancing of attitudes" toward symbols of order and toward conventional forms which would provide a clear sense of an ending. As such, they show what Burke calls "self-interference" on the part of the playwright — a deliberate balancing of arguments for the sake of "quizzicality" toward language as symbolic action.
According to this analysis, the problem plays remain problems for an audience which seeks identification with symbols of order; they are, however, a tribute to the agile mind of a master rhetorician.Arts, Faculty of
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Nilsson, Persson Cajsa. "VemFörVem? : En retorisk studie av den feministiska jämställdhetskampanjen SheForHe." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Retorik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34438.
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All around society, examples are found for how the debate for equality is being rhetorised, giving various suggestions for how the struggle should, or may, be fought, as well as suggestions for who and whom should be included within the term equality. Here a study is presented on the feminst equality campaign SheForHe and the debate article ”Men can – but you need our help”, in which a critique of malevolent norms of masculinity encourages women to free the man from the chains of patriarchy. The purpose is to investigate how, within the perspective of rhetorics, the article can be seen as to challenge the present discourse in the debate about equality through the following questions: Which motives are being constructed? Which rhetorical strategies are at play? Which ”men” and which ”women” as well as their internal relations are constructed? This is done based on Kenneth Burke’s theories on dramatism and the pentad as method of analysis for change of perspectives, as well as Karlyn Khors Campbell’s theories on the rhetoric of women’s liberation. The analysis is discussed drawing from Judith Butler’s terms performativity and the heterosexual matrix. The main conclusion is that the article can be seen as a rhetorical action in solidarity that through a societal critique aims to offer men new possibilties of identification. At the same time the article can be regarded as, within the scope of the equality debate, a rhetorical provocation that gives women actorship in the struggle for equality and highlights a male dominance within the debate. A further conclusion is that the article, although it may be viewed as an important act of resistance, is at risk of reproducing the view of ”men” and ”women” as homogenous collective identities, further constituting the gender system and contributing to the consolidation of a learned mandatory heterosexuality.
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O'Brien, William Eugene. "Constructing the problem of "slash-and-burn" agriculture." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38766.
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"Slash-and-burn" agriculture, or shifting cultivation, is perceived by many to be the leading cause of land degradation in tropical forests. Performed mainly by resource-poor farmers, shifting cultivation is the most widespread form of agriculture in the tropics. Concern over its environmental impacts has led to calls throughout the twentieth century for alternatives by policy-makers and development planners. This study employs a constructivist framework, post-colonial perspectives, and rhetorical methods to understand the images which support such assertions regarding shifting cultivation, primarily in policy-oriented depictions. Elements of Kenneth Burke's "dramatistic" method are used, including the analysis of hierarchies which structure discourse, and pentadic analysis.Ph. D.
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Mueller, Eric. "The Terministic Filter of Security: Realism, Feminism and International Relations Theory." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3040/.
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This study uses Kenneth Burke's concept of terministic filters to examine what the word security means to two different publics within the academic discipline of international relations. It studies the rhetoric feminist international relations theorists and contrasts their view security with that of realist and neo-realist interpretations of international affairs. This study claims to open up the possibility for studying the rhetoric of emergent movements through the use of dramatistic or terministic screens.
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Cumberbatch, Melissa Alicia. "Using Kenneth Burke's Equipment for Living to Explain Teenage Girls' Engagement with Online Media in Trinidad and Tobago." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1395397954.
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Sproat, Ethan McKay. "Dialectic, Perspective, and Drama." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2441.pdf.
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Fossum, Debra N. "Identification is Persuasion: Eisenhower’s Call for Unity and the Founding of NATO’s Military Headquarters." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_theses/82.
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Historians of the founding years of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) acknowledge General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s role as the first Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), yet they ignore the effect Eisenhower’s rhetoric had in the creation of a sense of unity among Western European nations. Rhetorical analysis of Eisenhower’s time as SACEUR offers scholars a unique look into the founding years of NATO and the beginning of European unification. Using Kenneth Burke’s theory of the four master tropes, I analyze how Eisenhower’s role in the development of NATO was important to the eventual development of a unified Europe.
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Atchison, Bradley Tilman. "Assistive technology as an accommodation on accountability assessments : an analysis of attitudes and knowledge of special education professionals." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/709.
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Smith, Gregory Vance. "Rhetorics of Fear, Deployment of Identity, and Metal Music Cultures." Scholar Commons, 2009. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3676.
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the rhetorics of fear operating in public discourses surrounding metal music. This analysis focuses on how the public rhetorics deploy identity on listener populations through both the mediation and legislation of identities. Specifically, this mediation takes place using both symbols of fear and arguments constructed on potential threats. Texts for analysis in this study include film and television documentaries, newspaper articles, book-length critiques of and scholarship on heavy metal, and transcripts from the U.S. Senate Hearings on Record Labeling.
"Heavy metal" and "metal music" are labels that categorize diverse styles of music. While there is no exemplar metal song that accounts for a definition of the genre, the terms have been consistently used in rhetorics of fear. These rhetorical movements produce and deploy deviant identities, depend on the construction of cultural crisis, and generate counter rhetorics of agency for individuals and subcultures. The study moves 1) chronologically through metal history, 2) geographically from the United States to
Norway, and 3) contextually through media events that produce the public discourses of identity, crisis, and counter rhetorics. This study charts the rhetorical movements that have created fear within communities, leading to threats of legislation or criminalization of segments of the population.
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Blau, Aimee E. "Composing 'An Experience': Experiential Aesthetics in First-Year Writing." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3209.
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Students often struggle to understand why the required writing course is important in their academic and non academic life. My project seeks to bring these two parts of students' lives together by urging writing teachers and students to consider a richer concept of the term "composition," one that includes the fundamental work of composing meaningful knowledge by assembling and reflecting on raw experiences. Dewey's term "an experience" clarifies how students constitute knowledge from their experiences, and Burke's methodological concept of form offers students a model for writing that accommodates that Deweyian sort of learning. Building off of these aesthetic theories, I suggest that significant learning experiences must be composed and organized through critical reflection.
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Ensign, Emily. "From Plato to iPads: Dialogical Opportunities in Twenty-First Century Secondary English Classrooms." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3618.
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Technology offers students and educators an uncharted digital landscape of possibilities. Some educators feel strongly that technology enhances the classroom; others feel that it doesn't necessarily improve traditional teaching methods, and some even feel that it is detrimental to students' ability to focus or engage in face-to-face conversations. My project focuses on critical dialogue as defined by various theorists, and explores whether or not secondary English classrooms that use iPads continue to use the dialogical methods as outlined by these theorists (most of which could not have foreseen today's technological advancements). By relying on these theorists and scholars to provide definitions and descriptions of dialogue and its benefits, I explain unique opportunities that the iPad offers students for dialogical learning in general. In particular, I describe ways educators can use iPads in the secondary English classroom that clearly overcome the potential disadvantages that concern some teachers.