in a “manner or form that is ‘actualized’ ”(Kennedy)‚ with modern rhetoricians often interpreting such actualization as occurring “through speech” (qtd. in Kennedy)‚ further suggesting that rhetoric may exist as a certain art of speech-making or discourse that retains practical and heuristic function in contemporary society. Additionally‚ Aristotle’s belief that “rhetoric usually seeks a specific judgement” supports the theory that rhetoric is always employed for some specific intention or purpose
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suburbia with social criticism. In this essay‚ starting from analysing this film and providing dominant discourse‚ the use of characters will be discussed followed by debate of technical and symbolic codes which help to put up the discourse. In particular‚ this essay will consider the technical code of camera angle and symbolic codes of colour which emphasize the dominant discourse. The dominant discourse of Edward Scissorhand‚ namely conformity is carefully constructed by Burton in order to confront
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flaw of Society: Expressionism‚ nihilism and Sartreist absurdity Martin la Fournier Department of Semiotics‚ University of Michigan 1. Realities of futility If one examines expressionism‚ one is faced with a choice: either accept textual discourse or conclude that class‚ somewhat ironically‚ has intrinsic meaning‚ but only if the premise of expressionism is valid. But the meaninglessness‚ and subsequent futility‚ of Sontagist camp which is a central theme of Stone’s Heaven and Earth emerges
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Topic: To what extent is popular music an effective medium of political discourse? It is almost impossible to imagine a life without music. We listen to music for various reasons but most of us listen to it for one simple reason: entertainment. Rhythm and the melody give us great pleasure. Even sometimes we think that certain songs describes our lives and us. When we think deeper about music and its impacts in social life‚ we realize that music has more functions than entertaining people
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The History of Sexuality and de Behavior’s The Second Sex both agree that a superior manipulates a subordinate to suit his desires. However‚ while Foucault examines that those with political power manipulate people’s views of sexuality through the discourse about sex‚ Beauvoir argues that men manipulate women based on their biology‚ thus placing them into her concept of the role “ the other.” Foucault’s History of Sexuality opens with the immediate attack of the “repressive hypothesis.” The hypothesis
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development into rhetorical discourse. This article is written to provide an understanding of the content of a rhetorical situation and to clarify rhetoric-as-essentially-related-to-situation beliefs. According to Bitzer‚ rhetorical situation does not mean merely understanding the context in which the speech is located‚ nor does it solely refer to a setting at where the speech is presented. In fact‚ Bitzer believed that rhetoric is situational‚ and “rhetorical discourse is called into existence
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indigeneity in the above alluded oral discourses. According to the Foucauldian understanding‚ discourse creates knowledge and knowledge is produced by discourse. The discourses are multidimensional‚ connected with power and knowledge. It is a mean of social communication‚ the production of discourse follows social procedures and negotiates with the practices of language‚ dialogues and dialects within the community (Foucault‚ 1972). According to Foucault‚ discourse also constitutes power relations and
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Chapter 10 - An Anthropological Approach 1. The social life of images: an introduction - Importance of exchange relations → importance of objects that are exchanged for social relations - Visual materials not as something to be decoded but as objects with which things are done - Interest in the practical mediatory role of visual objects in the social process - Claim that visual objects and the people who do things with them are mutually constitutive - Studying visual images in the context
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Bibliography: 1) Adger‚ W. Neil‚ Tor A. Benjaminsen‚ Katrina Brown‚ and Hanne Svarstad. 2001. "Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses." Development and Change 32:681-715. 2) Herrmann‚ Stefanie M. and Charles F. Hutchinson. 2005. "The Changing Contexts of the Desertification Debate." Journal of Arid Environments 63:538-55. 3) Reynolds‚ James F. and D. Mark Stafford-Smith. 2002
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Rudyard Kipling effortlessly described the discourse community which I coincide by saying‚ “I wrapped myself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors”. If you’ve ever taken a tour of my temporary home here at university‚ you’d find quotes scattered across my study area‚ laminated on walls and mirrors. From Maya Angelou’s words of wisdom to C.S. Lewis’s brave words of: “I was made for another world”‚ I’ve collected words which have surely allowed me to put words
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