Discipline Of Rhetoric Research Articles

Think with the virus

This essay proposes that analyses of the pandemic caused by Covid-19 can be clarified by reflections from the field of anthropology over recent decades regarding the plural effects of the interaction between human and non-human animals. These human–nonhuman relationships are intimate and unpredictable; between entities whose agency and modes of existence are not always precisely identifiable. Our contention is that ‘more than human’ perspective, as a relational marker, expresses a counterpoint defined by interspecific alterities that we humans establish with certain animal species. Furthermore, these relationships are configured as a ‘category-metaphor’ enabling us to perceive the multiple and complex ways in which we compose our lives in relation to the ‘nature’ of everything around us. We argue that events such as the appearance of SARS-CoV-2 have a reflective potential that can draw the attention of those who do Animal Studies to these relations. We highlight the limiting effects of a narrowly defined (‘absolutely animal’) disciplinary rhetoric, when instead we need to formulate meaningful responses to the consequences of our relationships with other beings. We address the valorization of relations between humans and non-humans in their vital contexts; that is, what is necessary and available to survive. They consider the access and utilization of available resources, and how they are unequal around the world. Our anthropological perspective asks what it means to simultaneously address issues of power and marginality in the face of capitalism and globalization, to consider humans and non-humans as companion species, and to take the benefits offered by anthropology learned from the lived world, without separating it from politics and history.

A novel multi-dimensional analysis of reply, response and rejoinder articles: When discipline meets time

The purpose of this study is to profile the genre of reply, response, and rejoinder articles (3R) on a corpus of 480 texts sourced from the disciplines of History, Linguistics, Biology, Psychology, Chemistry, Physics, Politics, and Economics. A novel multi-dimensional model based on 124 linguistic features was developed on five functional dimensions: i. Literate vs. oral production, ii. Non-technical stance vs. specialized informational density, iii. Ethos-oriented non-narrative vs. logos-oriented narrative concerns, iv. Elaborated persuasion, and v. Overt expression of evaluation. The findings concerning disciplinary and diachronic variations across dimensions suggest: i. provided that 3R articles are heavily stance-loaded, relatively informative, and eloquently persuasive forms of academic discourse in nature, the genre of 3R in soft disciplines is literal, non-technical attitudinal, ethos-oriented non-narrative, elaborately persuasive and overtly evaluative, whereas it is oral, specialized information-dense narrative, logos-oriented persuasive and evaluative in hard disciplines; ii. the dimensions of evaluation, informativeness, and persuasiveness are the functional constants of the 3R genre across disciplines and time, despite significant discrepancies detected in the functional representation of oral/literate style and elaborated persuasion. These findings are relevant to the study of disciplinary rhetoric and may contribute to advanced genre pedagogy in EAP, ESP and EPP studies.

Market Affect and the Rhetoric of Political Economic Debates

Market Affect and the Rhetoric of Political Economic Debates

Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric

The antislavery and antiracist oratory of Frederick Douglass is a powerful case study of the appropriation and transformation of “the master’s tools.” Douglass’s formative exposure to the classical rhetorical tradition is well known—but just as important are the ways in which he subverted it. He did so by developing a categorically new, hybrid role: the orator-slave. Slavery played an important part in the conceptual apparatus of the Ciceronian rhetoric that Douglass absorbed: it conceived of oratory as a willing, temporary submission to the harms that were commonly associated with slavery. An explanation of the force of Douglass’s oratory should begin with his translation of the orator-slave identification from the metaphorical to the literal plane. Drawing on Douglass’s self-education in rhetorical discipline and artifice, an account of the symbolic uses of slavery in classical rhetoric, and Douglass’s own oratory, I reconstruct his claim to embody classical rhetoric in a uniquely vivid way.

Humanistic Knowledge-Making and the Rhetoric of Literary Criticism: Special Topoi Meet Rhetorical Action

This article examines the power of special topoi to characterize the discourse of literary criticism, and through emphasis on rhetorical action, it sheds light on the limitations of topos analysis for characterizing research articles in disciplinary discourse more generally. Using an analytical approach drawn both from studies of topoi in disciplinary discourse and rhetorical genre theory, I examine a representative corpus of 21st-century literary research articles. I find that while most of the special topoi recognized by Fahnestock and Secor and Wilder remain prevalent in recent criticism, contemporary literary critics tend to draw on only a select subset of those topoi when making claims about their rhetorical actions. The topoi they use most often— mistaken-critic and paradigm—help identify the ways knowledge-making work is undertaken in literary criticism, a discipline often considered epideictic rather than epistemic. But what the special topoi do not capture is precisely the distinctly motivated, actively epistemic character of this disciplinary rhetoric. Based on these findings, I suggest that special topoi must be seen as functioning in the context of the rhetorical action undertaken by literary research articles. These articles undertake not simply persuasion but the particularly humanistic act I refer to as contributing to scholarly understanding: a rhetorical action worth attending to for scholars of disciplinary discourse, because it is deliberately more concerned with practice than product.

Music as a Liberal Art: The Poetry of the Universe

This article explores the place of music in the classical liberal arts curriculum, which consists of the trivium (the arts of language) and the quadrivium (the arts of number). Music is part of the quadrivial disciplines and studied as applied arithmetic. However, as argued in this article, it is also a bridge to the discipline of rhetoric, which is part of the trivium. The article begins with a brief review of St. Augustine’s De Musica, the first in a planned (but unrealized) series of dialogs on the value of the classical liberal arts to the emerging Christian culture of Antiquity. It proceeds to a discussion of music and its relation to the contemporary American liberal arts curriculum. Two case studies follow that address the ontological reality of music as a time-bound medium, and attempts to mute this reality in the service of creating a sense of timelessness. Thus subsuming the temporal into the Divine–what Augustine called “a poem of the universe”. The first case study is Dante Alighieri’s Paradiso, which is a journey through the heavens with each planet representing one of the seven liberal arts as preparatory to the Beatific Vision. The second case study focuses on J.S. Bach’s attempts to create a sense of timelessness in the St. Matthew Passion by the use of musical forms and musical rhetorical devices that tend to abolish time. The article concludes with suggestions on how teachers can use 20th and 21st-century movements in Western art music as pathways to appreciate music’s pivotal role in the Catholic liberal arts tradition.

Andre E. Johnson, No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

<i>Andre E. Johnson</i>, No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

Visual Rhetoric in the Design Process Based on Local Wisdom

The visual perspective of rhetoric is relatively new in the discipline of rhetoric. Perspective knowledge has begun to be generated about how visual images operate symbolically, although there is not a coherent theory. The key to a rhetorical perspective on the image is that the rhetorical perspective focuses on the rhetorical response of the image rather than on aesthetics. Visual rhetoric as perspective is not a theory with construction and axoms depicting certain rhetorical components of an image; but it also does not consist of some type of content or image knowledge. The development of communication technology is currently growing very rapidly. This development has also affected the media industry, which is required to adapt to the development of communication technology. Technology that occurred in the industrial era 4.0 interfered in various forms of media, especially in the information media. The new paradigm of conventional things is happening with a shift in meaning towards the media. This research used a problem-based approach and qualitative research methods to solve this problem. Local wisdom is a distinctive essence that can characterize design work. In design development in Indonesia, there is disruption in design, especially in design style. The design style that occurs in Indonesia today is heavily influenced by external design style. This is due to the disruption of the 4.0 era that provides information globally.&#x0D; Keywords: visual rhetoric, local wisdom, design, distraction

Honoring Languages: Review of Creole Composition: Academic Writing in the Anglophone Caribbean

In traditional Caribbean villages, the bell crier made important announcements from street to street. People listened and carried the news further. Like the proverbial bell crier, Milson-Whyte, Oenbring, and Jaquette, along with fourteen contributors announced “We are here. And we doin’ dis—‘write [ing] our way in” to academic spaces (Creole Composition, 2019, p. x). Creole Composition provides current perspectives on post-secondary composition pedagogy, academic literacies, and research across multiple academic disciplines. Indeed, this intersectionality addresses Browne’s (2013) argument that Caribbean vernacular orientations and practices fly beneath the radar of the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition. Caribbean institutions of higher learning must embrace Caribbean students’ creole-influenced languages.

The Neoliberal Disciplining of LeBron James and Kevin Durant: Sports Media Discourse on NBA Free Agency as Ideological Critique

Through content analysis of sports media commentary focusing on the high-profile free agencies of NBA stars LeBron James and Kevin Durant, the author demonstrates how commercial sports media discourse responding to these critical exigencies strategically reinforces neoliberal ideology and parlays its disciplinary rhetoric into a derogatory ideological critique of James, Durant, and their contemporaries. The analysis demonstrates how media discourse surrounding James and Durant covertly but significantly reinforces cultural myths of rugged individualism, self-sufficiency, and competition as concomitant with success and self-worth while exalting idealized constructions of the prior generation of basketball icons, particularly Michael Jordan, whose mythic self-reliance is metonymic of an influx of nostalgic discourse which framed today’s players as constitutionally inferior to the stars of the 1980s and 1990s.

Metamorphoses in the Law of Contract: Mythological Reflections

A human body grows and changes but remains the same body. The same is true of other organisms, even though some transform dramatically. Metamorphosis is a poetic and mythological conceit of identity, change, and continuity. It applies just as well to the law of contract and helps us understand the power of the contract law canon and the conventional understanding of the legal history of contract. The ideas probably hold true for private law generally, but the focus is on Anglo-American contract law with a foray into Scots private law. Three aspects of mythology and metamorphosis are highlighted. First, the conventional understanding of legal history shapes what the law is. In the story of legal development, we see an implicit notion of progress — with missteps and complications of plot, but with the conviction that eventually the law, like any myth, will work itself out in a way that is right — not necessarily a way that is good but instead a way that fits with society. And in any system based on case law, this conventional understanding of legal development shapes the law itself. Second, the force of this conventional understanding is scarcely lessened by demonstrable falsity. Classic books, lectures, and cases illustrate the idea that historical inaccuracy is an insignificant check on the power of myth. Finally, myths consist not only of explanatory plotlines; they also draw on characters and settings that reflect and inspire the society they serve. Legal myths are no different. Understanding legal mythology requires an attentive ear and a sharp eye for the characters, as well as the storytellers. The reasonable man is not the same as the reasonable person (or is he — a metamorphosis?), and in any case is not the same as the bonus paterfamilias or bon pere de famille—the good father of the family, or good family man, the comparable figure of Roman and civil law. Setting matters as much: the heritage of kings and lords, and judges and Westminster Hall, makes for different offspring than that of Rome and Continental learning, of wise thinkers and treatise authors, of Parliament House and institutional writers. When law is understood as a humanistic and rhetorical discipline, the force of myth, in all its aspects, is only natural.

Trust Me, I’m Trolling: Irony and the Alt-Right’s Political Aesthetic

Trust Me, I’m Trolling: Irony and the Alt-Right’s Political Aesthetic

Mehmed Chorûmî’s Treatise on Metaphor and Allegory

“Language is wazʻ and istiʻmâl” is a sentence frequently encountered in our classic texts. Despite the ease of identifying the difference between the waz, which gives truth to the meaning of a word, and isti’mâl, which gives metaphorical and allegorical meaning to it, the differences between metaphorical and allegorical meanings are still subject to many debates. Although these debates mostly persist in the discipline of rhetoric, they are also closely linked to the disciplines of tafsir, fıkh and hadith. The independent literature about metaphors and allegory in our scientific culture has been shaped in accordance with this and many scholars have written books and commentaries on this topic for a variety of reasons. In&nbsp;this study, we examine the work written upon the request of the students of Muhammad al-Chorûmî, whom we assume lived in the 18th century. This work is called Risâla fi al-farq bayna al-kinâya wa al-majâz and its content was analyzed and presented with the Turkish translation by scrutinizing the Arabic text. In his study, Chorumî followed the ideas of Miftâh al-ulûm, a text by Sakkâkî who had an important significance in Ottoman rhetoric disipline, and Talkhîs was overbuilt on this text by Qazwînî. He also followed Taftâzânî’s commentary, called Mutawwal about Talkhîs, and Sayyid Sharîf Jurjanî’s Hâshiya was compiled based on this commentary and on Qazwînî’s study on the disipline of rhetoric called al-Îdhâh. Chorûmî especially propounded the ideas and disagreements of these scholars about the topic, mentioning their reasons as well as their choices.&nbsp;

The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

Professionalizing Peer Review Suggestions for a More Ethical and Pedagogical Review Process

Several major problems with peer review exist in the related humanities disciplines of rhetoric, communication, and composition studies: a preponderance of incompetent reviewers, a lack of constructive criticism and the maintenance of orthodoxy, relative ease in identifying blinded authors, editorial passivity, and long waits to receive reviews. We propose five solutions: training for reviewers and editors, reviewers signing their reviews, payment for reviewers, thirty-day review turnaround, and guidelines for reviewing promoted by collective action. Before such solutions could be implemented, however, the existing problems must be acknowledged.

Metadiscourse in Applied Linguistics and Chemistry Research Article Introductions

This study examined disciplinary rhetoric in research articles, focusing on different traditions in structuring text discourses from a metadiscourse-move analytic approach. The corpus consisted of 72 research article Introductions (RAIs): 36 in applied linguistics and 36 in chemistry. Swales’ CARS model (1990, 2004) and Hyland’s interpersonal model of metadiscourse (2005) were used as analytical frameworks for move and metadiscourse analyses, respectively. Both frequency and functional analyses showed that there were considerable differences between the 2 disciplines in terms of how the writers used metadiscourse in the RAIs and how the metadiscourse markers were mapped to fulfill the rhetorical purposes of Introduction moves. Such discrepancies reflect the susceptibility of metadiscursive features to the sociorhetorical cultures conditioned by the discipline to which the writers belong. Findings have implications for teaching novices, especially nonnative speakers of English, to write research articles and help them create a convincing research space and make appropriate use of metadiscourse.

Assessing online misogyny: Perspectives from sociology and feminist media studies

AbstractScholarly and lay publications have highlighted increasing online misogyny. We review the dominant, cross‐disciplinary analyses and conceptualizations of cisnormative, heterosexist, misogynistic discourses. From feminist media scholarship, we highlight four terms intended to describe acts of online misogyny: online sexual harassment, gendertrolling, e‐bile, and disciplinary rhetoric. We then review the nascent sociological concept of virtual manhood acts (VMA) and situate it within the broader context of critical gender theory. VMA use the tools of technologically facilitated misogyny; they occur in online social spaces and, using textual and visual cues to signal a masculine self, enforce hegemonic gender norms, oppress women, and keep men “in the box.” VMA align with the interactionist view of gender as action and emphasize that a physical body is not needed to signal manhood. The concept of virtual manhood acts acknowledges that women are the primary victims of online oppression without obscuring the problematic practices of men that are central to this subjugation.

Japanese American Spiritual Ambiguity and Arts of Silence

Japanese American Spiritual Ambiguity and Arts of Silence Brett J. Esaki The current political climate is not new. My Japanese American ancestors walked a similar path of uncertainty, and I am listening to them. In my early years, they told me about their experiences and today they continue in spirit, yet their messages have not resonated fully until the last decade or so. Some of these lessons are straightforward and stated. For example: Imperial powers live in a bath of fear, developing fantasies of hidden pirates and saboteurs and lashing out when the phantoms seem to take form. Imprisoning and banning whole classes of people out of phantom military necessity is not necessary, extremely expensive, and nearly impossible to reverse. Creativity, strength, and endurance are essential for resisting and surviving another's nightmares. The rest of the messages are ambiguous and silent. My ancestors did not have as many educated and empowered representatives, so they cannot fully guide my path. I count myself among those who have benefitted from my ancestors’ perseverance, and I turn to women, African Americans, and Native Americans who can help me to fill in the gap of experience (and listening to others is part of my ancestors’ wisdom). In addition to the clear lessons and non‐existent ones, my ancestors send silent messages of ambiguity. Esteemed Japanese American theologian Fumitaka Matsuoka explained that ambiguous messages like these come from Japanese Americans’ “holy insecurity,” which he later phrased “holy amphiboly.” In this article, I will apply Matsuoka's holy amphiboly to the struggle of Japanese American artists to express messy, contradictory, and ambiguous realities in their art. Artists do so purposefully and sometimes in order to negotiate the political minefield of audiences who do not want to hear direct stories of injustice. By exploring instances of silent ambiguity, I hope to articulate some of the complicated messages of Japanese Americans who have survived times like ours. Ambiguity of Japanese American history It is accurate to say that the history of Japanese Americans is ambiguous. Our first immigrants were well educated (in respect to the time), hardworking, and with low criminality rates, yet spit on and accused of monopolizing (read “invading”) industries and enslaving women. The next generation, born in the United States as American citizens, were categorized as enemy aliens and imprisoned en masse (the Internment Camps during WW II). The following generation successfully secured reparations for their parents’ losses, yet were depicted as the model minority and symbols of Japan's rise in technology. I am part of the generation after that, and the results are yet to come. Scholars have commented on the precarious position of Japanese Americans. In the early twentieth century, sociologist Robert E. Park presented Japanese Americans as a prime example of his theory, the Marginal Man, or one who is in transition to assimilation but is held from full assimilation by oppression. Other examples from the 1920s included Jews and mixed‐race African Americans. A more recent theory is racial triangulation, where Asian Americans serve as models of economic success through hard work and as rhetorical discipline of stagnant or downwardly mobile African Americans. At the same time, Asian Americans are categorized as foreigners, rendering them incapable of reaching whiteness. Likewise, there has been a common trope among Japanese Americans that we are suspended between white and black. These characterizations of Japanese Americans have utility in some respects and shortcomings in others, yet they all describe the straightforward fact that our lives are ambiguous. Given this fact, one might ask: Why haven't people just stated that and built from this point? The answer is that there have been countless Japanese Americans who have done this, but it has been difficult for people to understand, especially considering the challenge of understanding ambiguity, as others in this journal attest. In reaction to severe tragedies and minor misfortunes, Japanese Americans used the expression “shikata ga nai,” which is frequently translated as “it can't be helped.” More accurately, it is “what happened is nothing” or “do not dwell on that and move on.” More colloquially, it is “sh*t happens” or “shake it off” (in the lyrics of Mariah Carey and Taylor...

Disciplinary Measures from the Metrical Psalms to Milton. Kenneth J. E. Graham. London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. xiv+206.

<i>Disciplinary Measures from the Metrical Psalms to Milton</i>. Kenneth J. E. Graham. London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. xiv+206.

Grammatical Parallelism in the Qur’ān

Parallelism – or, as it is called in Arabic, al-muqābala occupies a central position in the rhetorical discipline of ‘ilm al-badī‘. Parallelism is used as a means of textual ornamentation or embellishment and can be divided into several types that are based on the semantics of parallelism and its formative structure. Parallelism in Arabic has received a considerable amount of attention from Arabic rhetoricians, and this has facilitated an understanding of the essence of parallelism in Arabic – its types, structures and meaning. However, there are some lacunae in their descriptions concerning the function and thematic restrictions of parallelism in the Qur’ān. The current article, which focuses on grammatical parallelism where the two stichos of parallelism are the same with respect to syntax and morphology, shows that parallelism has some important roles to play in textual arrangement. It may, for example, conclude a thematic section, indicate a turning point in the text or clarify what has been said previously. In addition, it is shown that parallelism is not used at random in the Qur’ān but rather is restricted to repeated themes which carry the most important messages of the Qur’ān, such as God’s Might or the behavioral patterns of believers and non-believers; or it can be used as a stylistic device.