Chat with AIExam 11: Contemporary Rhetoric III: Texts, Power, Alternatives
Who is thought to possess the bagre form of discourse among the LoDagaa people?
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VerifiedIn the LoDagaa tradition, the bagre belongs to everyone in their society. The bagre is both an "initiation rite" and a speech performed as a story. The story is "transmitted from elderly to the young without being entrusted to specialists." The bagre then belongs to the community but also conveys a Information Classification: General sense of ownership to the one delivering it. While each initiate owns their telling of the bagre, overall it belongs to everyone in the society and shapes their collective memory. The bagre differs from the Western tradition in its purpose as well as in its speaker-audience dynamics.
What do Foss and Griffin mean by the phrase "invitational rhetoric"? Information Classification: General
(88) VerifiedMoving away from rhetoric as persuasion, their model of rhetoric invites the audience into the rhetor's world. This view of rhetoric promotes equality and value for participants. Foss and Griffin's invitational rhetoric allows for audiences to be persuaded and changed by a rhetor, but reject the idea that the purpose of rhetoric is to cause such change. The invitation is extended, worldviews are shared, and the audience can decide on their own what to do with the information.
What logical step does the Indian avayava argument contain that is not exhibited in a Greek syllogism?
(80) VerifiedThe Indian avayava argument includes a step requiring an analogy or example as pivotal to the reasoning process. This meant that this form of argument included both deductive and inductive forms of reasoning within the same argument. This is different than the Greek syllogism which did not require an analogical step and is a form of deductive reasoning.
What is unusual in the Greek tradition of rhetoric when compared to other rhetorical traditions?
(86) Provide the term for the following definitions:
-In Foucault, the totality of discursive practices of a society at a particular point in time.
(74) Identify a way in which the rhetoric of Averroes departs from that of Aristotle?
(70) Always concerned with power, Michel Foucault coined the term ___________________ to describe the phenomenon of an increase in constant surveillance by those in power within society. This term is derived from a type of prison design.
(80) Which of the following was the name Michel Foucault gave to the process of discovering possibilities of rational thought for a particular time period by investigating its discourse and set of social rules?
(99) What was Foucault seeking through his "archaeology of knowledge"? How does the concept of episteme figure into his archaeological studies?
(82) What Greek form of speaking does ancient Aztec speaking most closely resemble?
(64) Provide the term for the following definitions:
-In Derrida, the work of destabilizing discourse by dissecting its underlying structures of meaning and assumption.
(85) Some feminist theorists have called for an "invitational" rather than a competitive rhetoric. Is such a rhetoric possible? Does the nature of rhetoric itself, or of human beings, render this suggestion impracticable?
(100) What have feminist rhetoricians said about language itself as a source of problems for women seeking a distinctly female rhetoric?
(81) ____________________ was an early twentieth century movement in discourse studies which affirmed the presence of underlying structures or "grammars" in myths and other narrative forms. Information Classification: General
(58) Why, generally, was Michel Foucault interested in language and discourse? What is discourse's relationship to knowledge? To power?
(67) What do Foss and Griffin mean by the phrase "invitational rhetoric"? How would an invitational rhetoric differ from a traditional rhetoric?
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