Persuasion
For Aristotle, rhetoric is the counterpart to...
What is dialectic?
What is Schiappa's overall stance on definitions
Definitions are not universal; thus, as a learned activity, definitions are more or less necessary
Constitutive rhetoric is primarily concerned with...
What is identity construction through rhetoric?
This theorist discusses how language can reflect, select, and deflect reality
Who is Kenneth Burke?
McGee wrote what essay.
What is "In Search of the People?"
Known also as the artistic proofs, these three terms are deemed the modes of persuasion, according to Aristotle
What is logos, ethos, and pathos?
Schiappa argues language is a tool...for what
What is categorization?
Which theorists fall under "Constitutive Rhetoric" for our class...
McGee, Charland, and DeVinney
This theorist primarily focuses on definitions.
Who is Schiappa?
"Desiging the People"
Original teachers of public speaking
Burke differs between two forms of language
What is scientific and dramatistic?
Identity formation via "the people", for McGee, is...
What is temporary?
The 4 stages (dormat, advocate, identification, dissolution)
This theorist talks about interpellation.
Who is Charland?
"Language and Definitions: How we make sense of reality"
What critique does Plato (and then Aristotle) wage against the Sophists?
Sophists have no concern for truth or reasoning; they use rhetoric as a tool for manipulation
Schiappa argues that definitions are persuasive because of three reasons. Name one of the three reasons.
1. definitions can present the world
2. definitions can induce conformity
3. definitions can produce perceptions (in/out groups)
The three shifts from constitutive oneness to constitutive wholeness include...
Unity to Solidarity
Unanimity to Division
Division to Health
This theorist emphasizes political myth and the process of constitutive rhetoric
Who is McGee?
"Constitutive Rhetoric"
What is audience, method, and purpose?
This idea, from Burke, argues that whenever there is an articulation, like claiming something is "good" -- this also occurs
What is... man is the creator of the negative?
aka, something then is "bad"
How does McGee differ from Charland?
McGee is more acute; Charland's idea of constitutive rhetoric can be conceived of as a longer-term identity formation
(Charland, identification is key to interpellation, people identify with political narratives)
This individual was the first to deploy the term rhetoric, in their critique of....
Two parts
Plato; the Sophists
Hallsby wrote an entitled
"The 'Origins' of Rhetorical Theory"