Burke really felt that rhetoric happened from action. Rhetoric occurs when a person is in the moment a “dramatistic” approach to creating and defining what it is. I take from this that rhetoric never dies but is a type of…
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Burke
by jocias • • 0 Comments
“In the beginning was the word” that sparked the creation of language and its complex system of signifiers, an infinite loop expanding as new ideas breathe into existence. Burke calls the rhetorical use of these symbols magic; its practitioners, spellbinders.…
(Re)Defining Rhetoric
by jgreene • • 0 Comments
Based on the readings for the week, it seems to me that the 20th century recovery of rhetoric is about defining what is entailed when we talk about rhetoric. Not necessarily satisfied with the way rhetoric was being treated, intellectuals…
Commentary 6
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
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…
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…
Terministic Screens
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Tina Bell 5001 Commentary Week 6 26 March 2009 Terministic Screens What is reality? According to Kenneth Burke, reality resides in the symbol system we use. Members of societies in various cultures and from various time periods have used particular…
Commentary #2 A Rhetoric of Motives by Kenneth Burke
by Keri • • 1 Comment
In the chapter from A Rhetoric of Motives, author Kenneth Burke establishes that rhetoric serves a “realistic function” (Burke 43). He argues that rhetoric serves a purpose in our language–it has a job. Then, as a recurring theme in our…