The readings for this week reinforced the idea that word choice is an essential component of rhetoric. In Burke’s, Language as Symbolic Action he makes reference to how Pascal found a way around dueling. While his sneakiness had very little…
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Fusion of Present and Past
by uzma • • 0 Comments
Man is a symbol using animal and dramatism functions as a philosophy of human relations. Burke’s dramatism answers many empirical questions of how people explain their actions to themselves and others, and explains the different cultural and social structural influence…
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Burke and Weaver and the Power of Filters
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
Can we ever see the world as it really is? Metaphysical questions such as this go back a long way, and my grasp of all the centuries of ontological and epistemological philosophical wrangling is superficial at best. That we are…
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Sweet and Sour
by lminnis209 • • 0 Comments
How can we see another culture as rhetorically important when we disregard the whole cultures validity as an equal? Maybe soon as a western culture we can start to acknowledge Chinese Rhetoric as an equally valid discourse. Our past concerns…
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Commentary 5
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
There are so many things in life that people say a person should “take with a grain of salt;” I can’t help but wonder if translation is something I should add to my list along with the fashion ideas my…
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Distinctions are What We Make Them: West v. East
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 0 Comments
The readings about Chinese rhetoric struck me as just that– readings about how others read Chinese rhetoric, rather than a way to get to the source of something and really understand it by myself. Moreover, because I would never understand…