Rhetorical Dialogues Research Articles

Museums in Motu in the Anthropocene: From Active Space to Spatial Actions

Abstract In this article I offer an in motu rhetorical analysis of museums in the Anthropocene. Instead of discussing curations inside museums in detail, I examine spatial and rhetorical dialogues between the Jinhuagong National Mine Park, a fifty-year-old coal mine, and the Yungang Grottoes, a Unesco cultural heritage site. Pulling together threads from Heidegger and Chinese environmental philosophies, I redefine museum as spatial action with three entangled lines of action: building, dwelling, and saying. Unlike in previous studies of museum as active space, museum in motu turns museum into museuming—a gerund indicating ongoing actions adapting to contingencies. Through museuming, human beings keep exploring the meaning of building in diverse practices of dwelling and adapting to relational existence with the more-than-human world.

Interrogative statement and discourse-stylistic continuum of the Ukrainian language

Interrogative statements are used to perform the intention of the query in various discourse-stylistic forms of the Ukrainian language. This article aims to analyze interrogative statements from the stand-point of their functioning as syntactic constructions. Drawing on a wide range of literary sources, the author states that, fulfilling the epistemological need to fill information gaps in speaker’s knowledge, the interrogative statement is the most relevant linguistic sign used to express the speaker’s motivation and needs. The interrogative statement is, however, a clear example of communicative-pragmatic functions which include figurativeness, expression of will, emotionality, evaluation, and tolerance, verbalized in a speech in accordance with the speaker’s intentions. A suggested in terpretation of the linguistic nature of interrogative constructions attests to their ambivalence and semantic syncretism along with the performance of primary and secondary functions. The discourse-stylistic continuum of the Ukrainian language, i.e., vernacular, literary, journalistic, religious, and epistolary, represents a rather extensive functional potential of inter-rogative constructions. In spoken discourse, interrogative expressions, e.g., address-oriented syntactic units, verbalize the specifying and clarifying intentions of the query, thus highlighting their primary function in the dialogic discourse. In other registers, these are secondary func-tions related to the following aspects: 1) figurativeness and aesthetics of speech which em phasizes the linguo-creative nature of a speaker, i.e., fiction; 2) the display of certain information which has a purposeful influence on the addressee of the speech and encourages specific actions, i.e., journalistic discourse; 3) the creation of aphoristic and rhetorical dialogue, establishing spiritual values and a human worldview, i.e., religious discourse; 4) the creation of epistolary dialogue as a marker of the interrogative searching process focused on essential phenomena related to pub-lic and private life and aimed at the formation of textual communication conceived in time and space. This article introduces the concept of interrogative discourse as a dynamic continuum of human communication, a special mode of cognition and reflection of reality, one of the latest fragments of linguistic knowledge. Keywords: interrogative statement, discourse-stylistic continuum, the intention of inquiry, address-ability, dialogicality / quasi-dialogicality, interrogative discourse.

ДІАЛОГІЧНА ВЗАЄМОДІЯ КУЛЬТУР ЯК ЧИННИК ФОРМУВАННЯ ПОЛІМОВНОЇ ОСОБИСТОСТІ

In the context of conceptual statements of intercultural communication and modern rhetoric the phenomenon of dialogue as a unit of intercultural and rhetorical communication is defined. Rhetorical dialogue should be considered in the prospect of the relativistic aspect of modern rhetoric, emphasizing attention on the pragmatic sense of the influence of communicators on each other in the process of harmonizing dialogue, effective and optimal communication. That’s why intercultural dialogue in the process of forming of multilingual personality is defined as rhetorical. The main purpose of the article is to highlight the relevance of intercultural dialogue as a rhetorical in foreign language lessons in the establishments of secondary education, to clarify the main aspects of dialogic interaction of contacting cultures. Considering the intercultural dialogue as rhetorical in the process of teaching pupils foreign languages, it is necessary to build the educational process on the conditions of realization of value-variable model of the educational choice, which according to conclusions of A.Kondakov, provides: 1) personality orientation of education; 2) value orientation of education (values harmonizes on the basis of the principle of complementarity in this way that dominate value surely reinforced by opposite); 3) principle possibility of modeling of educational programs with concrete number of variants with the aim of satisfaction of different educational needs. We consider the proposed concept as innovative and complement the principal position. We consider values and value orientations of the native speaker as sociocultural characteristics of personality, which appearing in speech become the pragmatic basis of the rhetorical texts of communicators and organizational basis of speech influence in the process of intercultural dialogue as rhetorical. The implementation of dialogic interaction of contacting cultures on foreign language lessons in the establishments of secondary education is socially necessary. At school foreign language teaching it is necessary to take into account the contacts of languages and cultures which are the reality of life. The necessary condition of the culture dialogue is comparative analysis of ethnoculturological lexics; compilation of the register of ethnoculturological lexical units in several languages. Key words: dialogue, intercultural dialogue, rhetorical dialogue, multilingual personality, intercultural thinking, intercultural communication, rhetorical communication.

Shaping the Conversation: Madeleine de Scudéry's Use of Genre in Her Rhetorical Dialogues

This essay argues that Madeleine de Scudéry's engagement with the early modern dialogue genre in Conversations sur Divers Sujets reflects and strengthens the conversational theory that scholars have pinpointed as an important feminist rhetorical strategy. By imagining and constructing the dialogue to function as a metadiscourse on the conversational theories that provide the speaking points of her characters, Scudéry enacts her rhetorical theory of sermo in addition to describing it. After an overview of varying forms of the dialogue genre in Renaissance Europe, a comparison between Scudéry's Conversations and Sir Thomas Elyot's The Defence of Good Women illuminates Scudéry's feminist construction of the genre and exemplifies her choice to use the dialogue to both perform and advance her theories on conversational practice.

Intercultural Dialogue as Rhetorical Means of Forming of Multilingual Personality

The state and conditions of functioning of the Ukrainian language and languages of national minorities in Ukraine have led us to think about finding ways to balance the complex sociolinguistic situation in the country. In this regard, it is no coincidence the direction of modern linguadidactics on communicative and functional learning of designated languages in establishments of secondary education with multiethnic contingent of students. The social role of dialogue, connected with change of socio-cultural connections and cultural codes is becoming more and more important. The forming of global human civilization, numerous transnational and interregional conflicts, need for mutual understanding, cooperation and partnership have determined the relevance of the dialogical form of communication, which has led to a deepening of dialogue not only human thinking but also its civilized existence. The dialogical thinking is necessary for overcoming ideological stereotypes, the monopoly of thought and one-sidedness of globalism, for the forming of a person who would be able to build his relationship on the basis of humanization, finding a reasonable compromise, mutual respect, and tolerance. In the context of conceptual positions of modern rhetoric, the phenomenon of rhetorical dialogue as a unit of rhetorical communication is singled out. It is worth considering the rhetorical dialogue in the prospection of a relativistic aspect of modern rhetoric, taking into account the pragmatic sense of the influence of communicators on each other in the process of harmonizing dialogue, effective and optimal communication. That's why the intercultural dialogue in the process of forming of multilingual personality is defined as rhetorical. In the giving article, the subject of the discussion is highlighting the relevance of the intercultural dialogue as rhetorical on language lessons at schools with polyethnic contingent of pupils, clarification of the main aspects of dialogic interaction of contacting cultures, analysis of groups of national and specific vocabulary for learning by pupils-polylinguals.

Корпоративный медиадискурс: риторический анализ

This article argues that the rhetorical dialogue theory is a sound approach to the analysis of home press. The article proceeds from the assumption that the process of planning dialogues aimed at a certain task and their further implementation contribute to achieving corporate business objectives. The findings indicate that the strategic motives behind publications in magazines for employees consist in promotion of corporate values via dialogue-unison.

"Her Special Music": Wild Women and Jazz in Paule Marshall’s <i>The Fisher King</i>

Paule Marshall’s jazz novel, The Fisher King, weaves an intricate tale about women and jazz in the late nineteen forties and early fifties. From the novel’s description on the inside flap of the book to the reviews and scholarship that attempt to unearth it’s meaning, the narrative has been predominantly read as a patrilineal text. This article proposes a matrilineal reading that focuses on the women who populate the narrative and serve as the archival bodies that “pass on” the legacy of jazz and ultimately free the music from its structural bondage through language and image. This article attends to the way that Marshall challenges and revises major tropes and concerns of jazz literature in The Fisher King. Drawing on cultural criticism and feminist theories, three motifs in Marshall’s jazz novel —wild women, the jazz moment of improvisation, and call and response demonstrate how Marshall uses jazz’s essential elements of improvisation and freedom to reconstruct traditional notions of the female body through rhetorical dialogue and moments of improvisation. I argue that Marshall creates a space (literally and figuratively) for black female agency and challenges the male-dominated narratives about jazz music in America and abroad. I contend that Marshall constructs varied images of black women as improvisers/innovators/creators in order to place women at the center, rather than on the periphery, of jazz literary discourse. Ultimately, The Fisher King becomes a prime example of Marshall’s uncanny ability to (re)inscribe the interconnections between black women, jazz music, and African Diaspora literature.

Locating A Transborder Archive of Queer Chicana Feminist and Mexican Lesbian Feminist Art

Queer US Chicana and Latina activists are members of the transborder lesbian feminist publics that have collectively articulated and debated lesbian feminist political frameworks in Latin America since the 1980s. Art-based encuentros are particularly productive sites of transborder dialogue among US Latina and Latin American lesbian feminists. These encuentros enable exciting collaborations and cross-fertilizations in the realm of activism and art. This article examines two series— Lupe and Sirena in Love (1999) by the queer Chicana feminist artist Alma Lopez, and La Virgen de las Panochas (2010) by the Mexico City-based lesbian feminist art collective Las Sucias—as a means to trace aesthetic and political dialogues that emerge from transborder lesbian feminist encuentros. The artworks paired in this analysis register an important resonance between queer Chicana feminist and Mexican lesbian feminist visual and performative strategies through their appropriation, and most significantly, their queering of a transborder archive of politicized Virgin of Guadalupe art. I suggest that by queering the transborder archive of revolutionary virgenes that I have identified, Alma Lopez and Las Sucias situate themselves within and against the borders of Mexican and Chicana/o social movement rhetorical dialogues, while grounding their feminist aesthetics in a genealogy of transborder feminist art.

Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues ‐ by Madeleine de Scudéry

<i>Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues</i> ‐ by Madeleine de Scudéry

Review: Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues

Journal Article Review: Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues Get access Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 41, Issue 3, July 2005, Pages 352–353, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqi223 Published: 01 July 2005

Isotta Nogarola. Complete Writings: Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, Orations. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Eds. and trans. Margaret L. King and Diana Robin. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxii + 226 pp. index. append. bibl. $65 (cl), $25 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-59007-0 (cl), 0-226-59008-9 (pbk).Madeline de Scudéry. Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues.

Isotta Nogarola. Complete Writings: Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, Orations. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Eds. and trans. Margaret L. King and Diana Robin. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxii + 226 pp. index. append. bibl. $65 (cl), $25 (pbk). ISBN: 0-226-59007-0 (cl), 0-226-59008-9 (pbk).Madeline de Scudéry. Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues.

“Rhetoric between Praise of the Emperor and Education. The Contributions of Alcuin of York and Rhabanus Maurus for the Early History of Rhetoric in Europe during the Renovatio of Charlemagne and the Manuscript Alcuinus ad Regem

This article focuses on the establishment of early rhetoric in Germany during the renaissance of Charlemagne. Alcuin and his pupil Rhabanus Maurus were prominent in the establishment of rhetoric and artes liberales. The conception of education under Charlemagne was on the one hand based upon artes liberales. On the other, this renaissance of ancient education was arranged under a different political system in comparison with the roman and greek one. So the educational concept itself contains the interest of adornment and honour of the king perfectly used in the rhetorical dialogue between the king and the scholar Alcuin of York and in the works of the first ´Praeceptor Germaniae´ Rhabanus Maurus.

Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues by Madeleine de Scudéry (review)

Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues by Madeleine de Scudéry (review)

Book reviews

Rhetoric for Survival; Aids to Successful College Writing. Thomas Donohoe. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1973. Rhetorical Tactics. Esther M. Hamon. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1973. The Rhetorical Dialogue: Contemporary Concepts and Cases. John J. Makay and William R. Brown. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Co., 1973. Wittgenstein's Doctrine of the Tyranny of Language: An Historical and Critical Examination of His Blue Book. S. Morris Engel. Introduction by Stephen Toulmin. The Hague: Martinus Nijoff, 1971. Pp. xvii + 145. Rhetoric and Truth in France: Descartes to Diderot. Peter France. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. Pp. viii + 282. The Art of Deception. Nicholas Capaldi. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1971.