Rhetoric And Human Consciousness

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781478635666

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Rhetoric and Human Consciousness by Craig R. Smith Pdf

For two decades, students and instructors have relied on award-winning author Craig Smith’s detailed description and analysis of rhetorical theories and the historical contexts for major thinkers who advanced them. He employs key themes from important philosophical schools in this well-researched chronicle of rhetoric and human consciousness. One is that rhetoric is a response to uncertainty. The modern philosophers, like the naturalists of ancient Greece and the Scholastics who preceded them, tried to end uncertainty by combining the discoveries of science and psychology with rationalism. Their aim was progress and a consensus among experts as to what truth is. However, where modernism proved ineffective, rhetoric was revived to fill the breach. Another significant theme is that different conceptions of human consciousness lead to different theories of rhetoric, and for every major school of thought, another school of thought forms in reaction. Classic and contemporary examples demonstrate the usefulness of rhetorical theory, especially its ability to inform and guide. By providing probes for rhetorical criticism, discussions also demonstrate that rhetorical criticism illustrates, verifies, and refines rhetorical theory. Thus, the synergistic relationship between theory and criticism in rhetoric is no different than in other arts: Theory informs practice; analysis of successful practice refines theory. Smith’s absorbing study has been expanded to include thorough treatments of rhetoric in the Romantic Era, feminist and queer theory, and historical context for the creation of rhetorical theory and its use in public address.

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781478610298

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Rhetoric and Human Consciousness by Craig R. Smith Pdf

The latest edition of Rhetoric and Human Consciousness remains a well-researched, accessible examination of rhetorical theory in Western civilization. Smiths coverage of the major figures who advanced rhetoric is strengthened by his keen analysis of developments in rhetorical theory that resulted from its interaction with other disciplines and the cultures surrounding it. The dialectic between rhetoric and other disciplines (notably philosophy and psychology) illuminate evolving definitions of rhetoric, from myth and display to persuasion and symbolic inducement. Well-chosen, engaging examples demonstrate how rhetoric can find truths, particularly at times when science and reason fail to solve important human crises. Paramount to this well-wrought survey is Smiths ability to show that rhetorical criticism illustrates, verifies, and refines rhetor-ical theory. Thus, the synergistic relationship between theory and criticism in rhetoric is no different than in other arts. Chief among the Fourth Editions enhancements are expanded discussions of the historical context for the creation of rhetorical theory and its use in public address; additional coverage of Isocrates, Cicero, Machiavelli, Kenneth Burke, and Michel Foucault; new material on the rhetoric of civil religion, ideological criticism, constitutive discourse, and feminist rhetorical theory; and many fresh examples. Each chapter ends with questions that sharpen readers retention of concepts and the ability to apply those to everyday life.

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-14
Category : Rhetoric
ISBN : 1478634545

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Rhetoric and Human Consciousness by Craig R. Smith Pdf

Author : Craig R. Smith
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1577661745

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Rhetoric & Human Consciousness by Craig R. Smith Pdf

This text illustrates the evolving definitions of rhetoric from myth & display to persuasion & symbolic inducement. This history of rhetoric includes unique, in-depth investigations of Greco-Roman, medieval, Renaissance, modern, existential & postmodern thinking.

Author : Walter J. Ong
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801466281

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Fighting for Life by Walter J. Ong Pdf

What accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into the role of competition in human existence. Focusing on the ways in which human life is affected by contest, Ong argues that the male agonistic drive finds an outlet in games as divergent as football and chess. Demonstrating the importance of contest in biological evolution and in the growth of consciousness out of the unconscious, Ong also shows how adversary procedure has affected social, linguistic, and intellectual history. He discusses shifting patterns of contest in such arenas as spectator sports, politics, business, academia, and religion. Human beings' internalization of agonistic drives, he concludes, can foster the deeper discovery of the self and of distinctively human freedom.

Author : Todd Oakley
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789206708

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Rhetorical Minds by Todd Oakley Pdf

Minds are rhetorical. From the moment we are born others are shaping our capacity for mental agency. As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition. Each chapter reflects on a different dimension of human thought based on the fundamental proposition that our rhetoric thinks and acts with and through others.

Author : Ann Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : PSU:000026752969

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Rhetoric and Human Understanding by Ann Gill Pdf

This book introduces basic concepts of human signification, explains both primal & contemporary rhetoric experience, & offers challenges to common-sense understandings.

Author : Sonja K. Foss,Karen A. Foss,Robert Trapp
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781478622154

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Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric by Sonja K. Foss,Karen A. Foss,Robert Trapp Pdf

The anniversary edition marks thirty years of offering an indispensable review and analysis of thinkers who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary rhetorical theory: I. A. Richards, Ernesto Grassi, Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, Stephen Toulmin, Richard Weaver, Kenneth Burke, Jürgen Habermas, bell hooks, Jean Baudrillard, and Michel Foucault. The brief biographical sketches locate the theorists in time and place, showing how life experiences influenced perspectives on rhetorical thought. The concise explanations of complex concepts are clear, engaging, insightful, and highly accessible, serving as an excellent primer for reading the major works of these scholars. The critical commentary is carefully chosen to highlight implications and to place the theories within a broader rhetorical context. Each chapter ends with a complete bibliography of works by the theorists.

Author : Mark Backman
Publisher : Mark Backman
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0918024919

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Sophistication by Mark Backman Pdf

Author : Jim A. Kuypers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442252738

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Rhetorical Criticism by Jim A. Kuypers Pdf

Now in its second edition, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action presents a thorough, accessible, and well-grounded introduction to contemporary rhetorical criticism. Systematic chapters contributed by noted experts introduce the fundamental aspects of a perspective, provide students with an example to model when writing their own criticism, and address the potentials and pitfalls of the approach. In addition to covering traditional modes of rhetorical criticism, the volume presents less commonly discussed rhetorical perspectives, exposing students to a wide cross-section of techniques.

Author : Christopher N. Gamble,Joshua S. Hanan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000426342

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Figures of Entanglement by Christopher N. Gamble,Joshua S. Hanan Pdf

Recent and ongoing "new materialisms" scholarship seeks to fundamentally reshape the humanities and their relationship with the sciences. While this work comprises multiple and varied currents, one of the most important, yet whose distinctive merits are arguably often underappreciated, is that influenced by the theoretical physicist and feminist philosopher Karen Barad. The first volume devoted to bringing Barad’s work into conversation with the disciplines of rhetoric and communication studies, this collection organizes that conversation primarily around her notion of "entanglement", which encourages an understanding of meaning as inherently performative, material, and ecological. In doing so, the essays in this collection variously approach rhetoric as a "figure of entanglement" in ways that contribute to and enrich both rhetoric and Barad’s theorizing. Topics range from politics to breast cancer, genealogy, the trope of academic "turns," Marx’s notion of exchange, and the "prehistoric" emergence of human consciousness. With a new foreword by the editors and afterword by Laurie E. Gries, this collection is otherwise reprinted from the 2016 "Figures of Entanglement" special issue of the journal Review of Communication.

Author : Barbara Couture
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0809320339

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Toward a Phenomenological Rhetoric by Barbara Couture Pdf

Current rhetorical and critical theory for the most part separates writing from consciousness and presumes relative truth to be the only possible expressive goal for rhetoric. These presumptions are reflected in our tradition of persuasive rhetoric, which values writing that successfully argues one person's belief at the expense of another's. Barbara Couture presents a case for a phenomenological rhetoric, one that values and respects consciousness and selfhood and that restores to rhetoric the possibility of seeking an all-embracing truth through pacific and cooperative interaction. Couture discusses the premises on which current interpretive theory has supported relative truth as the philosophical grounding for rhetoric, premises, she argues, that have led to constraints on our notion of truth that divorce it from human experience. She then shows how phenomenological philosophy might guide the theory and practice of rhetoric, reanimating its role in the human enterprise of seeking a shared truth. She proposes profession and altruism as two guiding metaphors for the phenomenological activity of "truth-seeking through interaction." Among the contemporary rhetoricians and philosophers who influence Couture are Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Martin Buber, Charles Altieri, Charles Taylor, Alasdair Maclntyre, and Jürgen Habermas.

Author : Mark Backman
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 109016114X

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Sophistication by Mark Backman Pdf

The years since its publication in 1991 have proven this book's central thesis--that our digitized, technological culture is controlled by five principles of language and reality that were first enunciated during the fifth century BCE in the city-states of Greece as the basis of the art of rhetoric:Words are toolsImages are realInformation is powerChange is inevitableTruth is relativeThese rhetorical principles have enlivened Western Culture ever since, and they flow into our time in the guise of conflicting concepts of history, politics, education, ethics and aesthetics. These principles shape our innermost thoughts about living well in a world that depends on technological innovation and the embodiment of theory in products as well as in practice. They invest our art and literature with the archetypal themes and symbols by which we portray the most rudimentary emotions. They control the processes of decision-making by which we choose the goods we consume, the leaders we follow, the things we study, and the opinions we believe or doubt. They give rise to the fundamental concepts and methods of our political, cultural, and educational institutions. Most important, as recent history demonstrates, the sophistication of our culture is a Faustian bargain of epic proportions that is played out in all the realms of self-consciousness, self-expression, and self-realization that are defined by rhetoric.

Author : Michael Billig,Cristina Marinho
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474297752

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The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration by Michael Billig,Cristina Marinho Pdf

In recent years there has been much interest in collective memory and commemoration. It is often assumed that when nations celebrate a historic day, they put aside the divisions of the present to recall the past in a spirit of unity. As Billig and Marinho show, this does not apply to the Portuguese parliament's annual celebration of 25 April 1974, the day when the dictatorship, established by Salazar and continued by Caetano, was finally overthrown. Most speakers at the ceremony say little about the actual events of the day itself; and in their speeches they continue with the partisan politics of the present as combatively as ever. To understand this, the authors examine in detail how the members of parliament do politics within the ceremony of remembrance; how they engage in remembering and forgetting the great day; how they use the low rhetoric of manipulation and point-scoring, as well as high-minded political rhetoric. The book stresses that the members of the audience contribute to the meaning of the ceremony by their partisan displays of approval and disapproval. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that, to uncover the deeper meanings of political rhetoric, it is necessary to take note of significant absences. The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration illustrates how an in-depth case-study can be invaluable for understanding wider processes. The authors are not content just to uncover unnoticed features of the Portuguese celebration. They use the particular example to provide original insights about the rhetoric of celebrating and the politics of remembering, as well as throwing new light onto the nature of party political discourse.

Author : Qiaoyun Liao,Lijun Meng
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000762723

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Cognitive Neural Mechanism of Semantic Rhetoric by Qiaoyun Liao,Lijun Meng Pdf

This book is a necessary supplement to the theoretical exploration into semantic rhetoric, particularly a breakthrough in the study of the relationship between the source domain and target domain involved in the construction of semantic rhetorical discourse. The study focuses on rhetorical expressions constructed by means of semantic variation or deviation of concepts. Based on the holistic cognitive pragmatic model and the framework of impartment and inheritance of connotation and denotation, this book constructs a new framework, the Annotation-Denotation Relevance-Inheritance Model (ADRIM) to explain the construing of semantic rhetoric. Besides, rooted in the Index Hypothesis Theory and the research paradigm of affordance derivation in language comprehension, three ERP experiments on metaphor, irony, and pun, are conducted to demonstrate the psychological reality that people activate possible feature extraction in the process of understanding semantic rhetoric. With those sample analyses and experiments, the feasibility and operability of ADRIM are proved. The book unfolds a combined approach of speculative research and empirical research, and can provide a new methodological alternative for semantic rhetorical studies in different languages. This title will be an essential read to students and scholars of Linguistics, East Asian Studies, and social workers who are interested in Language Studies in general.