“Rhetoric is not only persuasion but identification as a social cohesive force.” Kenneth Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives This will introduce you to the vast sweep of Rhetoric’s history, as well as its pedagogical offspring, Composition Theory. We will be…
Tools
Inaugural Rhetoric
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
Political rhetoric is one of the oldest kinds around, and presidential rhetoric has received plenty of attention itself, but semantic analysis tools are adding some new possibilities for how we study and visualize this material. Within minutes of President Obama’s…
Ideas
Ethereal what?
by Kim De Vries • • 1 Comment
You may well ask. I argue in a number of places that things, like archives and communities, can be ethereal, that is existing only or mainly in the connections between people and groups. Social connections and also links or data…