Rhetorical Voice Research Articles

The Big Short's Incoherence, Documentary Aesthetics, and Use of Direct Address

<i>The Big Short</i>'s Incoherence, Documentary Aesthetics, and Use of Direct Address

Home Is Where the Ok Is? Early Okayplayer Message Boards &amp; an Ethos of Acknowledgment

In this essay, the author considers the online community of Okayplayer (OKP) as a pivotal progenitor in the development of a Black digital ethos. In particular, the author situates and interrogates Okayplayer as a “dwelling space” where self-identified Black identities developed digital voices and a communal ethic of acknowledgment. Indeed, 5 years before Facebook, and 7 years before Twitter; Okayplayer was a social media precursor—made for and by black folks. Prior to social media era, the OKP message boards were the rare space where black digital voices could be heard and acknowledged by peers and fellow recording artists such as Erykah Badu—a digital home or dwelling space. In this essay, I sample and extend Hyde’s redefinition of ethos as “home”; to online communities of color. Hence, this essay retrospectively examines OKP’s digital ethos as a cultural communal co-production where “discourse is used to transform space and time into dwelling places where people can deliberate about and know together some matter of interest” (p. xiii). By viewing OKP as discursive site, the paper interrogates the function of rhetorical voice in establishing dwelling spaces. My critical lens is informed by Mitra and Watts advocacy of marginalized digital voice. Voice is actualized as an architectural event, only when it is acknowledged. In relation to OKP, Watts contends that historically, Black voices that find acknowledgment develop a dwelling place based on ” a sort of collaboration..as a kind of “magic” by a communal will.

Independent Black Institutions and Rhetorical Literacy Education: A Unique Voice of Color

The bulk of literacy education historical narratives about Black Americans has been gentrified by mainstream Euro-American perspectives. This article considers the contributions of a Black-American-developed form of institutionalized community education to demonstrate the critical race theory voice-of-color thesis in college-level composition-literacies education. Through reviewing the curricular, pedagogical, and instructional practices of pre-college independent Black institutions, the author works to reclaim the unique rhetorical voice of this Afrocentric literacy education form and insert it into American literacy education histories. The article presents two established unique voice of color counter-stories grounded in truthfully representing and advancing Black American cultures to argue that central features of these Afrocentric literacy education programs can afford college composition programs race- and community-conscious writing education.

Prophetic and Deliberative Responses to the Doctrinal Voice: A Study of the Rhetorical Engagement Between Catholic Nuns and Church Hierarchy

This paper analyzes the rhetorical exchange between the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, which is responsible for safeguarding Catholic doctrine, and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an organization of U.S. Catholic nuns, concerning charges that the LCWR’s practices deviated from official Catholic teaching. The essay examines how each rhetorical entity addressed the other in a distinct rhetorical voice. The doctrinal genre explains the rhetorical approach of the Church hierarchy, whereas the prophetic voice and the deliberative voice illustrate how the women of the LCWR chose to respond to the censure by balancing their advocacy for a more responsive Church with their fidelity to Catholicism. I argue that although the LCWR’s rhetorical amalgam succeeded in ensuring a mutually satisfactory dialogue with the Vatican representatives, public statements about the resolution of this controversy reflect the ability of the doctrinal voice to subsume prophetic and deliberative voices, revealing an ongoing tension between the hierarchical and communal visions of the Church.

Horatio’s Philosophy in Hamlet

Horatio’s Philosophy in <i>Hamlet</i>

Temple Themes and Ethical Formation in the Sermon On the Mount

The Sermon on the Mount is a coherent text, consistently drawing on words, expressions, and sacred values that were principally at home in the Old Testament Psalms and in the spiritual functions of the Temple of Jerusalem. Noticing these powerful allusions and understanding the moral authority that they would have conveyed to the ears of its earliest listeners opens insights into the ability of the Sermon on the Mount to communicate an authoritative moral vision, to engender a shared community ethic, and to instill a firm commitment to its ethical imperatives. No text is more important or has had more influence on the history and character of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount. The mystery of the Temple offers important keys for hearing the rhetorical voice of the Sermon and unlocking its enduring and everlasting potency in ethical formation.

&amp;quot;A World of Their Own&amp;quot;: Searching for Popular Culture in the French Countryside

This article revisits the role that the concept of popular culture has played in Eugen Weber's Peasants Into Frenchmen and in the historiography of France. It delineates the contours of this field of study in the 1970s then traces its evolution, focusing on the nineteenth century. It also assesses Weber's contribution to this body of scholarship and considers future directions of research—and how his book may still prove helpful. The article proposes that, in terms of conceptualization, epistemological stance, and rhetorical voice, Peasants Into Frenchmen adopts two perspectives on popular culture, perspectives that are sometimes compatible but typically at odds. The first revolves around the confident discovery of a fixed traditional civilization in the French countryside; the second is a more conjectural search for fluctuating cultural processes. While commentators have focused on the first, the second foreshadowed later developments in the field and has more to offer us today.

Defending Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Practical Issues Faced by an International Human Rights Organization

International organizations like Human Rights Watch are legitimately urged to pay more attention to economic, social and cultural rights. But practical prescriptions are often simplistic—typically involving only the rhetorical invocation of these rights. The strength of organizations like Human Rights Watch is not their rhetorical voice but their shaming methodology—their ability to investigate misconduct and expose it to public opprobrium. That methodology is most effective when there is relative clarity about violation, violator, and remedy. That clarity is best achieved when misconduct can be portrayed as arbitrary or discriminatory rather than a matter of purely distributive justice.

Slavenka Drakulić: Dissidence and Rhetorical Voice in Postcommunist Eastern Europe

Slavenka Drakulić: Dissidence and Rhetorical Voice in Postcommunist Eastern Europe

Slavenka Drakulić: Dissidence and Rhetorical Voice in Postcommunist Eastern Europe

Slavenka Drakulić: Dissidence and Rhetorical Voice in Postcommunist Eastern Europe

2000 NAPS Presidential Address Spoken Words, Voiced Silence: Biblical Women in Syriac Tradition

Biblical women have a distinctively prominent verbal role in late antique Syriac homilies and hymns. Syriac writers granted these women a rhetorical voice often lacking in their biblical narratives, through the favored technique of imagined speech; and those words found a performative voice when women's choirs sang certain of these hymns in the liturgies of civic churches. This study asks how women's speech was represented in these Syriac texts, how that representation functioned in Christian teaching, and how the ritual performance by women's liturgical choirs contributed to the social meaning of women's voices in the late antique Syrian Orient.

Women Writing/Women Written: The Case of Oriental Women in English Colonial Fiction

Women's contribution to the building of the british empire has become by now undeniable. Standing at different vantagepoints, English women articulated, supported, and even innovated the colonial discourse. Though highly masculine in its ideological core, the Empire is far from being exclusively male in its rhetorical voice. Feminist postcolonial critics have shown British women's important participation in colonialism. McClintock, for example, claims that “white women were not the hapless onlookers of empire but were ambiguously complicit both as colonizers, privileged and restricted, acted upon and acting” (6).

The construction of a rhetorical voice in sixteenth‐century Scottish letters

(1996). The construction of a rhetorical voice in sixteenth‐century Scottish letters. Prose Studies: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 127-135.

The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis

The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Fairbairn and the Origins of Object Relations edited by James S. Personal Relations Therapy: The Collected Papers of H.J.S. Guntrip edited by Jeremy Hazell. Mahler and Kohut: Perspectives on Development, Psychopathology and Technique edited by Selma Kramer and Salmon Akhtar. The Intersubjective Perspective edited by Robert Stolorow, George Atwood and Bernard Brandshaft. The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis: Displacement of Evidence by Theory by Donald P. Spence. Psychotherapy Grounded in the Feminine Principle by Barbara Stevens Sullivan. Psychic Retreats by John Steiner. Attachment Processes in Adulthood (Volume 5 of Advances in Personal Relationships) edited by Kim Bartholomew and Daniel Perlman. The Imaginative Body: Psychodynamic Therapy in Health Care edited by Aleda Erskine and Dorothy Judd. The Unconscious at Work: Individual and Organizational Stress in the Human Services edited by Anton Obholzer and Vega Zagier Roberts. The Dynamics and Treatment of Alcoholism: Essential Papers edited by Jerome D. Levin and Ronna H. Weiss. Existential Psychotherapy and the Interpretation of Dreams by Clark Moustakas.

A Rhetorical Voice in the Psychoanalytic Wilderness

A Rhetorical Voice in the Psychoanalytic Wilderness

The rhetorical voice of psychoanalysis: displacement of evidence by theory

As psychoanalysis approaches its second century, it seems no closer to being a science than when Freud first invented the discipline. This text analyzes the way pscyhoanalysis functions - as a clinical method, and as a scholarly discipline or science, and proposes remedies for the uncontrolled rhetoric that currently governs psychoanalytic practice. This reliance on rhetoric is the problem the author identifies, and he tributes the troubling lack of progress in psychoanalysis to its outmoded method of data collection and its preference for fanciful argument over hard fact. Paying particular attention to the role of self-analysis in the Freudian myth and the evidential drawbacks of the case study genre, this text shows how psychoanalysis was set on its present course and how rhetorical manoeuvres have taken the place of evidence. Donald Spence believes that by challenging the traditions and diminishing the power of rhetoric, psychoanalysis can remain a creative enterprise, but one based on a solid scientific foundation. Donald Spence has also written The Freudian Metaphor: Toward a Paradigm Change in Psychoanalysis and Narrative Truth and Historical Truth: Meaning and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis.

This is a Pedagogical Essay on Voice

Rhetorical voice is rarely discussed in business, professional, or technical communication textbooks, despite its strategic importance in aligning writer and audience so that persuasion can occur. This article identifies those aspects of the rhetorical situation that shape voice and presents a heuristic that writers can use to identify the components of voice and to construct their personae.

The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis

The rhetorical voice of psychoanalysis has a long history and has only recently come to be seen as a special feature of the theory. Its beginnings can be found in Freud's earliest pleadings for the usefulness of metaphor and analogy, although he felt that they were largely provisional and would eventually be replaced by more durable concepts. We have begun to see problems in replacing the central metaphors; the rhetorical base of psychoanalysis may be more enduring than we thought. While our metaphors may never provide epistemic access to the stuff of the mind, they can and do point to specific clinical encounters. Ways must be found to expand our rhetorical treasure chest and develop language even better suited to our concepts and observations.

The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis

The rhetorical voice of psychoanalysis has a long history and has only recently come to be seen as a special feature of the theory. Its beginnings can be found in Freud's earliest pleadings for the usefulness of metaphor and analogy, although he felt that they were largely provisional and would eventually be replaced by more durable concepts. We have begun to see problems in replacing the central metaphors; the rhetorical base of psychoanalysis may be more enduring than we thought. While our metaphors may never provide epistemic access to the stuff of the mind, they can and do point to specific clinical encounters. Ways must be found to expand our rhetorical treasure chest and develop language even better suited to our concepts and observations.