A tool to analyze how a speaker attempts to get an audience to accept his or her view of reality by using five key elements of the human drama—act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose.
What is the dramatistic pentad?
100
A theoretical framework that views narrative as the basis of all human communication.
What is narrative paradigm?
100
Generic term for all human-invented technology that extends the range, speed, or channels of communication.
What is media?
100
The study of the social production of meaning from sign systems; the analysis of anything that can stand for something else.
What is semiotics?
100
The mental frameworks which different classes and social groups deploy in order to make sense of the way society works.
What is ideology?
200
The dramatistic term for what was done.
What is act?
200
A conceptual framework or worldview; A universal model that calls for people to view events through a common interpretive lens.
What is a paradigm?
200
An acoustic era; a time of community because the ear is the dominant sense organ.
What is the tribal age?
200
The physical form of the sign as we perceive it through our senses; an image.
What is the signifier?
200
The process of speaking out on oppression and linking that subjugation with the media representations; the work of cultural studies.
What is articulation?
300
The dramatistic term for the context for the act.
What is scene?
300
Symbolic actions—words and/or deeds—that have sequence and meaning for those who live, create, and interpret them.
What is narration?
300
A visual era; mass produced books usher in the industrial revolution and nationalism, yet individuals are isolated.
What is the print age?
300
The meaning we associate with the sign.
What is the signified?
300
The subtle sway of society’s haves over its have-nots.
What is hegemony?
400
The dramatistic term for the person or kind of person who performs the act.
What is agent?
400
A scientific or philosophical approach to knowledge that assumes people are logical, making decisions on the basis of evidence and lines of argument.
What is rational-world paradigm?
400
An era of instant communication; a return of the global village with the all-at-once sound and touch.
What is the electronic age?
400
The connotative meaning that signs carry wherever they go; _______ makes what is cultural seem natural.
What is myth?
400
The belief that human behavior and relationships are ultimately caused by a difference in financial resources and the disparity in power that those gaps create.
What is economic determinism?
500
The word a speaker uses to which all other positive words are subservient.
What is the god term?
500
Internal consistency with characters acting in a reliable fashion; the story hangs together.
What is narrative coherence?
500
A worldwide electronic community where everyone knows everyone’s business and all are somewhat testy.
What is the global village?
500
Knowledge presented as common sense or “natural,” especially when its social construction is ignored or suppressed.
What is ideology?
500
The myth that society is held together by common norms such as equal opportunity, respect for diversity, one person-one vote, individual rights, rule of law.