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His dialogues featured his own teacher, Socrates, as a character.
For Alexander and Rhodes, "the terms 'digital writing' and ____ [do not] refer to fixed or even obvious practices."
What is digital rhetoric?
Asserting a notion of embodiment that resists culturally normative practices associated with the body, Jay Dolmage offers this concept (also a Greek goddess) to signify the validity and power of non-normative bodies.
What is metis?
As a slave, he had little access to education and literacy skills, yet he largely taught himself how to read and write and went on to use the dominant language of the culture to fight against slavery as an institution.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Some scholars suggest that Aspasia was this type of highly educated woman who might entertain men through her speech and wit; this position might or might not entail sexual relationships.
What is a hetaera?
In their article, these feminist scholars urge readers to move "beyond persuasion" in rethinking the purposes of rhetoric.
Who are Foss and Griffin?
Mary Queen argues that "the ____ of digital texts" is critical in understanding how human rights groups such as RAWA gain rhetorical influence.
What is circulation?
Zarah Moeggenberg, drawing from other scholars, brings up this concept as having "the power to authenticate queerness through the textual and visual rhetoric of the LGBTQ visibility that is (seemingly) real and tangible."
What is queer realness?
Zarah Moeggenberg argues that digital spaces can be safe spaces for people who identity thus, though she also notes that there are inherent dangers, as well.
Who are queer?
Plato developed this discursive technique, which countered the manipulative capacity of rhetoric, to allow men a means for pursuing transcendental truth.
What is dialectic?
Regina Spellers focuses on the discursive and cultural practices surrounding the "kink factor." Which group of people are most directly affected by these hair and body politics?
Who are Black women?
Jenny Edbauer Rice offers this theory/concept as a way of expanding the Aristotelian-based rhetorical situation: while she takes as an example the physical example of "Keep Austin Weird," she also allows that her theory can consider distribution and circulation online.
What is rhetorical ecologies?
Although she does not seek to revolutionize the social scripts concerning the roles of medieval men and women, Christine de Pizan does assert herself against sexist practices towards women. She thus earns this label.
What is protofeminist?
Madeleine de Scudéry's rhetoric exemplifies the power of a group of people to "take back" a term and reinvigorate it with positive potential: this term was initially used disparagingly to denote women enacting witty rhetorical skills in Renaissance salons.
What is précieuse?
Drawing from Cato the Elder, Quintilian foregrounds the importance this moral concept to Roman rhetoric.
What is vir bonus?
Who were veterans?
Les Hutchinson positions this concept from Aristotle against Plato's doxa: whereas doxa refers to uncritical beliefs/opinions of a group, this concept identifies beliefs/opinions that have undergone a more rigorous examination.
What is endoxa?
Frederick Douglass used his experiences as a former slave to illustrate for white audiences the very real evils of slavery as an institution, and his early autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, fits this genre.
What is the slave narrative?
Jay Dolmage expounds on this concept from Gloria Anzaldúa, a term that she describes as referring to "una mezcla de razas afines, una raza de color" and to "a cosmic race."
What is mestiza?
Aristotle delineated rhetoric as a pragmatic system of thought that combined both theory, or knowledge, and practice, or application: this is the Greek word for this combination.
What is techne?
What we know of her today is clouded by 5th-century BCE Athenian cultural constraints on women engaging in public discourse, yet some scholars argue that she was not only an eminently successful logographer but also a teacher of Socrates.
Who is Aspasia?
Hutchinson argues that this kind of approach "to doxing would see the practice of doxing as an action that brings harm not only upon an individual, but relationally on all of us."
What is decolonial?
The destructive pressures of Eurocentric cultural values is reflected in statements like "[E]ven our men tend to judge us how well we conform to the Eurocentric standards" in an article focusing on what?
What is Black women's hair/body politics?
Asao Inoue argues that these audience members need to be made to sit in discomfort; people of this heritage/identity are inherently involved in the structural racism perpetuated by standard written English.
Who are white people?
As he formulated Greek rhetoric for Roman culture and the Latin language, Cicero distilled these five canons of rhetoric.
What are memory, invention, arrangement, style, and delivery?