Bitzer: "A rhetorical audience
consists only of those persons who
are capable of being influenced by
discourse and of being mediators of
change"
Rhetor (self)
Reality
Subjectivity
the quality of being based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes,
or opinions. "he is the first to acknowledge the subjectivity of memories"
the quality of existing in someone's mind rather than the external world.
"the subjectivity of human perception"
Something being a subject, broadly meaning an entity that
has agency, meaning that it acts upon or wields power over
some other entity
Agency
Kenneth
Burke
inherently human capacity to act
and is an intrinsically human ability
to act upon evaluations and to
question.
individual agency as the process
through which organisms create
meanings through acting into the
world and changing their structure in
response to the perceived
consequences of their actions -
Marilyn Cooper
Dialogism
Monologic
centripetal: drawing in towards the center
voice of the parent: tyrant
unilateral (Johnston)
Dialogic
Centripetal Force
Moving outward and away
Multiplicity in meaning
Postmodernism
Paralogy
Paralogy is the ongoing
creation of meaning. You
say something and it
inspires me to say
something in return
bilateral (Johnston)
Alterity
the state of being different
Room to be different
used in media to express something other than the
sameness of an imitation compared to the original.
Spivak
it is imperative for one to uncover the histories and inherent historical behaviors in order to exercise
an individual right to authentic experience, identity and reality. Within the concept of socially
constructed histories one "must take into account the dangerous fragility and tenacity of these
concept-metaphors.
Jadranka Skorin-Kapov
"The signification of the encounter with otherness is not in its novelty (or banal newness); on the
contrary, newness has signification because it reveals otherness, because it allows the experience of
otherness. Newness is related to surprise, it is a consequence of the encounter... Metaphysical desire is
the acceptivity of irreducible otherness. Surprise is the consequence of the encounter. Between desire
and surprise there is a pause, a void, a rupture, an immediacy that cannot be captured and presented.”
Understanding
Responsive
Shallow
exigence: a product of how an audience
has been addressed and interacted with
the discourse: urgent need or demand
Constraints: Limitations
ontology: the study of being or
existence and questions of
what kinds of entities exist
are studied.
epistemology, the study of knowing and
how we come to know and questions
about what knowledge is and how
knowledge is possible are studied
What we see as good or bad,
significant or insignificant, right or
wrong, beautiful or ugly will always
fundamentally depend on what we
believe is ultimately most real
Freedom
Rhetoric arises in contexts open to choice (Hauser 2002 62)
value system
Rhetoric
1. rhetoric can reflect a self
2. Rhetoric can evoke a self
3. rhetoric can maintain a
self 4. rhetoric can destroy
a self
History GCSE AQA B: Modern World History - International Relations: Conflict and Peace in the 20th Century - Topic 2: Peacemaking 1918-19 and the League of Nations