Rhetorical Model Research Articles

Weavers of Film

This article uses AT&T’s 1910s–30s “Weavers of Speech” campaign to read on-screen telegraph and telephone operators as vernacular translators of cinematic syntax and hypervisible avatars for the invisible cutter girls who “knitted the pieces of film together” on studio lots. While operators largely played peripheral roles in classical films, two transitional periods saw them rise to the surface of story en masse, as if temporarily hired to sew over a rupture. A comparative analysis of telephone girls’ enlistment as temp techno-pedagogues during US film’s introduction of crosscutting and European film’s polyglot transition to sound suggests women’s film-weaving labor as an alternative to the surgical rhetoric (suture) and auteur models that dominate theories of film editing. More broadly, the article suggests that the culturally conspicuous feminization of low-level information labor offers feminist film historians a crucial “mediatrix” for uncovering woman workers hidden in the cut of film.

Michael Psellos on Rhetoric

"The present paper is focused on Psellos’ letters, which contain a number of remarks on his role as a teacher of rhetoric and as a rhetor active at the imperial court, as well as many comments on his correspondents’ and his own style – including considerations on kinds and levels of style, Atticism and sophistry, and judgements on the great rhetorical models of the past. The examination of all these passages makes it possible to highlight the way Psellos constructs his own image as an expert in rhetoric, familiar with Hermogenean theories, but also heavily influenced by Dionysios of Halikarnassos’ aesthetic conceptions. The great diversity of models with whom he identifies testifies to his stylistic versatility and his frequent adoption of a polemical stance can be read as a claim to independence of mind and originality. Keywords: rhetoric, epistolary genre, levels of style, aesthetic, Atticism. "

Presidential Rhetoric in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era: Jokowi’s Aristotelian Rhetorical Leadership Models Before and After Implementation of Semi-Lock Down Policy

Presidential rhetoric evolved across the globe. Knowledge regarding the ways the presidents in democratic countries, which followed the presidential government system, such as Indonesia, advanced Aristotelian rhetorical leadership models in the covid-19 pandemic era, has, however, under-developed. Selecting president Joko Widodo (Jokowi) as a study case, this work raises the following question: what types of Aristotelian rhetorical leadership models performed by Jokowi before and after semi-lock down policy (PSBB) and how did he advance such rhetorical leaderships models? Focusing on such questions, this work adopts the president’s rhetorical leadership models, posited by Teten (2007) and Aristotelian rhetoric models, formulated by Gottweis (2007), as a conceptual framework. The materials posted in official Facebook pages of president Joko Widodo were extracted using the classic content and the qualitative and thematic content analyses. The findings are follows. Soon after the covid-19 pandemic outbreak took place in Indonesia, he attempted to develop the following types of rhetorical leadership, which are the identification, the authority and the directive rhetoric and the etho -logo-, and patho-centric Aristotelian rhetoric. Based on Indonesia case, this work offers the following knowledge contribution. It gives us new knowledge of 9 Aristotelian rhetorical leadership models, which are the etho-, logo- and patho-centric identification rhetoric, the etho-, logo- and patho-centric authority rhetoric and the etho-, logo- and patho-centric directive rhetoric models. Not merely the presidents, but also the local governments’ leaders could adopt such rhetoric models when they want to resolve diverse issues resulting from the pandemic.

Crip teleportation: the animal that therefore I am—or I am not

This paper examines how disabled body-minds are discursively dehumanized or superhumanized. It draws on Critical Disability Studies and the Crip Studies scholarship and focuses on invisible mental disabilities, mainly those of the neurodiversity spectrum. The efforts of animalization and super-humanization draw on a mechanism that resonates with Parmenides’s Zeno paradox. As the autistic scholar Melanie Yergeau (2018) discusses, a neuroqueer body-mind is always in constant motion, being relocated from one identity category to another, from humanity to animality and vice-versa, subject to an excessively strict rhetoric model. Concomitantly, animals in slaughtering facilities are humanized to make their deaths seem smoother. To short-circuit the models that evaluate how fit human and animal bodies are for the neoliberal guidelines of productivity, the paper also brings Jasbir Puars’s intersectional approach on capacity and debility into the discussion. Keywords: Animal studies. Neurodiversity. Neurodivergence. Crip studies. Demirhetoric.

Is investigating discipline-specific academic lecture introductions a goal worth pursuing? A corpus-based study of the rhetorical organization of mathematics lecture introductions

Abstract : This study investigates the rhetorical move structure and linguistic signals of academic lecture introductions in the discipline of mathematics. The goal of the present study is twofold: 1) to determine the rhetorical model of lecture introductions in the field of mathematics so as to help non-native students of English to overcome difficulties in understanding lectures in this discipline, and 2) to find out whether our discipline-specific model differs or not from the general models determined in the literature. Applying a genre-based approach, we explore the largest corpus used in this type of research to date - a corpus of 100 maths lecture introductions delivered at the MIT University (the USA). The similarity between our and previous models exists in the presence of two obligatory moves setting up the lecture framework and putting the topic into context , which confirms the value of the previous research and suggests that discipline does not affect the rhetorical structure at the level of moves . However, another result referring to a more elaborate structure of the move putting topic in context in maths lecture introductions leads to a conclusion that discipline-specificity can play a role at the level of steps. The use of these obligatory moves allows students to create a general mental framework for the lecture, which should facilitate the comprehension of the lecture contents to be presented after the lecture introduction.

Mind Representation as an Affective Device in the Gothic: Bridging the Cognitive and the Rhetorical Model

Though the centrality of emotion in gothic fiction has long been acknowledged, its mechanisms for generating emotions have remained curiously underexplored. My review of the history of the genre's transatlantic development reveals that mind representation has often been explored as an important affective strategy by the gothicists, and that we can gain a solid understanding of its affective significance by combining the cognitive model of narrative with the rhetorical model. Bringing a diachronic perspective to bear on the study of gothic minds, my research demonstrates the historical embeddedness of the mechanisms of emotional generation, and their evolution under particular historical circumstances. My synthesized approach—which builds on an implied compatibility or even complementarity between the narrative models—externalizes the connections between the models, illuminates the evolution trajectory of both the affective system and the gothic genre per se, and extends our understanding of specific gothic works, authors, and historical periods under consideration.

Дневник (не)обыкновенной женщины: диалоги со временем и поиски себя

The article attempts at detecting different meanings of the personal diary of Tatiana Rozhkova, a resident of post-war Tyumen, and various manifestations of the social and the individual reflected in it. It considers the ways of the author’s self-image construction and correlation of its facets in the space of the diary text. It is shown how the diarist’s addiction to propagandistic rhetoric of “culturalness”, transferred to the sphere of everyday life, was combined with her own understanding of culture. Rozhkova’s speculations on the mission of the Soviet intelligentsia and her attitude towards the representatives of the “uncultured” strata of the population testified that her social ideas were hierarchical. It is noted that the facade and “behind the facade” components of Soviet reality did not come into conflict in the text of the diary, which points to the diarist’s apolitical character. It is shown that the theme of labor / work, which was understood in two ways: as a collective feat and as individual creativity, became a borderline theme for the diary, where the socially conditioned and the individually significant overlapped and came into contact with each other. The creation of an autonomous private home space isolated from the outside world was especially significant for the diarist. The achievement of this goal was facilitated by the arrangement of Rozhkova’s apartment in accordance with the values of the nascent Soviet middle class with its passion for homeliness and comfort. It is concluded that the epoch in Tatiana Rozhkova’s diary manifested itself primarily in those rhetorical models and figurative patterns that were relevant at the time and served as models for the diarist.

«НЕТ, ХОРОШО ЖИТЬ НА СВЕТЕ ВСЕ-ТАКИ!..»: СЧАСТЬЕ, ЛЮБОВЬ И ВРЕМЯ В ДНЕВНИКЕ СОВЕТСКОЙ ПРОВИНЦИАЛКИ СЕРЕДИНЫ ХХ В.

The article, based on the example of the personal diary of a Soviet provincial woman of the mid-20th century, considers such important problems for cultural history and historical anthropology as genesis and dynamics of the ideas of contemporaries of a particular historical epoch about happiness, love and time. It is shown that in their interpretations presented in T. D. Rozhkova’s diary historically, culturally, socially and personally conditioned propositions peacefully coexisted. The ratio of the typically Soviet, typically feminine, typically intellectual and purely private is not amenable for rigorous assessment. Nevertheless, no matter how tricky the interweaving of the normative and the casual in T. D. Rozhkova’s notions of happiness, love and time was, in general, they certainly gravitated towards a universal understanding of happiness, love and time as the most important aspects of human life, firmly established in the sphere of individual and collective imagination. At the same time, despite the fact that the diarist’s main task was clearly not the task of objectively reflecting reality, her diary turned out to be filled with the zeitgeist. First of all, it is exposed by rhetorical models and narrative templates used by T. D. Rozhkova in her speculations on happiness, love and time — speculations that captured that an ordinary Soviet person lived a rich inner life, and his or her “Sovietness” was not something one-dimensional at all.

Dan Shen's Rhetorical Narratology and Umberto Eco's Semiotic Theory of Interpretation

Dan Shen's Rhetorical Narratology and Umberto Eco's Semiotic Theory of Interpretation

The style of Serbian media (2010–2020) — the language of the crisis

The societal crisis’ influence on the crisis of the language in contemporary Serbian journalism is prevailing. Words have been increasingly framed into inappropriate content. Homonyms are gradually becoming the only way to debate and give second opinions. Globalizing vocabulary with fashionable phraseology, manipulative rhetoric and the artificial realignment of language serve as the basis of rhetorical and stylistic research presented in this work. Casual populist political speeches and sensationalistic topics in Serbia are in the centre of events, even though they are easily forgotten. An apparent lack of creativity in language results in the glorification of a globalizing rhetorical model. This leads to a sort of recycling of language patterns and a pathetic usage of metaphors in everyday life, hence the apparent emergence of a new kind of sensationalism. Different linguistic matrices obsessively repeat themselves in the same rhetorical frame. Therefore, the language of journalists is increasingly reduced to the form and the form is reduced to the void. In this article, the analysis of the contemporary use of stylistic knowledge by media professionals will be conducted within a sample of one year of broadcasts during 2019–2020, prior to the pandemic. The authors explain the methodology of the research by describing the theoretical approach and the methods used to substantiate the hypothesis. The research aims to show the gradual change of media language during the current professional, economic and moral crises. A vast majority of media have a common inherited loss of truly free expression. Instead of free relations, a plethora of excessive self-censorship and hidden advocacies and connections is being extended. This appears to be a certain eternity or bad infinity of the shadows in the media.

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BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN GENRES AND AUDIENCES: INTERACTION IN SCIENCE BLOGS

Science blogs have been attracting the attention of linguists, rhetoricians and communications scholars alike as the discourse of science becomes more and more influenced by new digital media and more scientists engage in the practice of blogging for the purposes of knowledge dissemination and public engagement. The paper analyses writer-reader interaction in a corpus of blogs maintained by individual scientists, considering both posts and comments. The analysis is corpus-driven to the extent that it harnesses corpus linguistic tools for frequency observations to detect language patterns of interaction, but tries to interpret frequency in light of linguistic and rhetorical models of audience engagement in science popularization. The findings confirm a tendency of blogs to exploit all of the linguistic strategies of audience involvement already found in the literature, reader pronouns, questions and the conversational style typical of spoken science communication, testifying to the blurring of genres and audiences.

Rhetorical model of communication in the composition of ancient Russian book “A Word of a Some Monk about Reading Books”

The article is devoted to the foundation of the rhetorical model of communication in the text of an unknown author A Word of a Some Monk about Reading Books, included in one of the most ancient collections of manuscripts Izbornik of the year 1076, in the plan of its specification concerning communication. In the communicative direction, the subject of this rhetorical model is the communicative-rhetorical activity of man as a subject acting by a word, and the reader to whom the influence of the Word is directed. The main components of the rhetorical model of communication are analyzed: communicative context, authors image, audience image, situationally oriented, rhetorically processed text. This is the first essay in the history of Russian culture about the benefits, methods and purposes of reading. A feature of the writing of the text in the Word is the reinvention of the Holy Scripture by the author in the presence of non-canonical motifs, the predominance of practical over theoretical.

Ethos is not enough

Strictly applied Aristotelian models of rhetoric limit possibilities of communication to the binary roles of speaker and hearer, and as such reinforce binary notions of power across lines of gender and race. A brief case study of a cancelled conversation about the white-centred storytelling and harmful stereotypes in the musical Miss Saigon at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin, reveals the harm that can be inflicted by the rigidity of ancient rhetorical models. Feminist rhetorical models offer an alternative, and unless institutions recognize that there is ethos in our audiences and value the labour that produces ‘organic dramaturgy’ in our communities, the contemporary call for new collective forms of storytelling will be left unanswered.

Escritoras monjas. Autoridad y autoría en la escritura conventual femenina de los Siglos de Oro

Escritoras monjas. Autoridad y autoría en la escritura conventual femenina de los Siglos de Oro

The Mask of Cicero: Jonathan Swift, Classical Rhetoric and A Modest Proposal

AbstractSwift's attachment to ancient learning has long been regarded as a settled matter. The Modest Proposal has been seen as reflecting this attachment through its use of a Ciceronian rhetorical model to enable the work’s irony. Reading the Proposal in the broader context of Swift’s prose non‐fiction works, however, suggests that Swift’s experience as an Irish political writer caused him to question the connection between classical rhetorical models and political power. Against this background, the hyper‐regular structure of the Proposal is as much the object of Swift’s satire as an enabler of it.

Service is Not Perishable: Nurturing Ongoing Participation with Conceptual Models

This article explores the nature of conceptual models for designing service participation. Conceptual models are both a representation and a hypothesis, dialectically creating conditions of participation. I first study the nature of a conceptual model and then explore the four arts with focus on the notion of form. Each art reveals a mode of thought regarding the form of the participatory whole: grammatical model of coproduction, rhetorical model of argumentation, poetic model of experience, and dialectic model of commitment. Along with the arts, I present case studies of four distinctive conceptual models that have been used to design for participation.

“God Said, ‘You’re Hearing the Voice of the President’”: Citizenship in The Trump Prophecy

ABSTRACT The film The Trump Prophecy, “based on a true story,” tells the story of a firefighter, Mark Taylor, who foresaw Donald Trump’s ascendancy to the Presidency in a vision from God. This vision led to the establishment of a nationwide prayer movement for Trump during the 2016 election. This article examines this film in light of the connections between religious media, politics, and gender. I argue that The Trump Prophecy articulates a rhetorical model for citizenship that I call “Holy Passivity.” This model encourages Christians to remain set apart and passive in mainstream political action while maintaining active roles in faith communities. The film’s articulation of this perspective twists traditionally feminine notions of passivity to enable male encroachment upon such understandings of citizenship and civic participation.

Minority Opposition and Asymmetric Parties? Senators’ Partisan Rhetoric on Twitter

Hyper-partisanship in Congress extends from the legislative process into lawmakers’ strategic communications, but some partisans are leaning into the political rhetoric. Previous research offers competing explanations for this partisan rhetoric—one ascribed to Republicans’ asymmetric record of heightened partisan politics and another to minority party status within Congress. I investigate these different explanations in the context of congressional social media activity to examine how these competing theories of partisan rhetoric work when explicitly considering the use of partisan labels. I examine senators’ tweets over three Congresses and find support for an asymmetric model of partisan rhetoric; however, minority status relative to the White House and leadership roles bolster this effect. In addition, ideological extremism may explain senators’ willingness to use partisan communication to attack political opponents on social media. These findings expand the scope of existing theories of partisan communication and broadly speak to the intersection of power and party.

موقف الدراسات البلاغیة والنقدیة من التقنیة الحدیثة

هدفت الدراسة إلى إبراز أهمية التقنية الحديثة في تطوير الجانب البلاغي والنقدي کفرع من العلوم الإنسانية. وبيان موقف علمي البلاغة والنقد من مجال التقنية الحديثة, وکشف المزيد من وجوه العلاقة الرابطة بينهما وبين التقنية الحديثة. وإيجاد نماذج بلاغية نقدية واقعية حققت الاستفادة من مجال التقنية الحديثة. وتوضيح أثر مساهمة التقنية الحديثة في نشر العلوم الدينية والعربية, کونهما الأصل في إيجاد البلاغة وعلومها. وتوصلت الدراسة إلى نتائج أهمها: ضرورة الاهتمام بعملية الوعي والتوعية لأثرهما الواضح في نقل المعرفة, وکذلک أهمية تکوين الشخصية الواعية في المجتمع, کون الشخصية الواعية هي بداية التطور الحقيقي. وأن لتکاتف الجوانب الثلاثة (الناقل للتقنية الحديثة والمتلقي للتقنية للحديثة والجهة المسئولة عن التقنية الحديثة) أثرا قويا في زيادة الوعي بأهمية التقنية الحديثة في حال تحقق أغلب البنود, والاستفادة من وسائلها المختلفة. کما أن مسايرة الإنسان للتقنية الحديثة هي البداية الحقيقة للنهوض والاتصال بالعالم وحتى لا يصبح الإنسان في لحظة من لحظات التطور السريعة بمعزل عن غيره, وبوجود لا ذکر له فيه. بالإضافة إلى إسهام عملية تکوين الوعي بأهمية التقنية الحديثة في تخطي الصعوبات أمام التقنية, ومن ثم تحقيق الأهداف المستقبلية الواعدة. کما أن البلاغة العربية تتصف بالمرونة وعدم العجز عن مسايرة التطور, بدلالة صلاحية موضوعاتها في إعداد تطبيقات ومنصات تعليمية في شتى مجالاتها. مساهمة التقنية في سرعة انتشار العلم بکافة مجالاته لأعداد مهولة من المجتمعات بجميع الأجناس ومختلف الديانات والفئات العمرية, وفي مقابل ذلک کان الإنسان عاجزا عن بلوغ ذلک بدون التقنية. کما کشفت الدراسة أثر التقنية في نشر تعاليم الإسلام وأحکامه وآدابه وإيصالها إلى أعداد کبيرة من المجتمعات الإسلامية وغير الإسلامية. أظهرت الدراسة قدرة البلاغة العربية على مسايرة التطور لوجود العلاقة الدائمة التي تربط بين هذه العلوم والإنسان, وبين الإنسان ورغبته في الوصول والتغير والتطور. أبرزت الدراسة أهمية مسايرة مستجدات العصر عن طريق التقنية کونها رباطا وثيقا يجمع بين سکان العالم. أوجدت الدراسة نماذجا حقيقية حققت الاستفادة الکاملة من مجال التقنية. The study aimed to highlight the importance of modern technology in developing rhetorical and critical aspects as a branch of the humanities. In addition, clarify the position of scientific rhetoric and criticism from the field of modern technology, and reveal more aspects of the relationship between them and modern technology. In addition to finding realistic rhetorical models that have benefited from the field of modern technology. In addition, clarify the effect of the contribution of modern technology to the spread of religious and Arab sciences, as they are the basis for finding rhetoric and its sciences. Also, the human progression to modern technology is the true beginning of the advancement and contact with the world, so that the person does not become in a moment of rapid development in isolation from others, and with a presence that is not mentioned in it. In addition to the contribution of the process of creating awareness of the importance of modern technology in overcoming the difficulties facing technology, and then achieving promising future goals.The study reached the most important results: the necessity of paying attention to the process of awareness and increasing their clear impact on the transfer of knowledge, as well as the importance of forming a conscious personality in society, since the conscious personality is the beginning of real development. The combination of the three aspects (the carrier of modern technology, the recipient of modern technology and the party responsible for modern technology) has a strong impact in increasing awareness of the importance of modern technology in the event that most items are achieved, and benefit from its various means. In addition, the man's progress with modern technology is the true beginning of the advancement and contact with the world, so that the person does not become in a moment of rapid development in isolation from others, and with a presence that is not mentioned in it. Moreover, the process of creating awareness of the importance of modern technology contributed in overcoming the difficulties facing technology, and then achieving the promising future goals. In addition, Arabic rhetoric is characterized by flexibility and inability to keep up with development, in terms of the validity of its topics in preparing applications and educational platforms in various fields. The contribution of technology to the rapid spread of science in all its fields to huge numbers of societies in all races, different religions and age groups, and in return for this man was unable to achieve that without technology. The study showed the ability of the Arabic rhetoric to keep pace with the development due to the permanent relationship that links these sciences with the human being, and between the human being and his desire to reach, change and develop. The study highlighted the importance of keeping pace with the latest developments through technology, as it is a close bond that unites the world's population. The study created real models that took full advantage of the technology field.