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*'''Datum''':
*'''Datum''':
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*'''Death of the Author''': Roland Barthe's essay argues that the author must be disentangled from the text (Richards [[February 1 Class Notes]])
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*'''Death of the Author''': Roland Barthe's essay argues that the author's personal background should be irrelevant to interpretation of his or her writing; the concept proposed in the essay (see [[Barthes, Roland "Death of the Author"]])
*'''Deictic''':  denoting a word or expression whose meaning is dependent on the context in which it is used (see [[Foucault, Michel "What Is an Author?"]])
*'''Deictic''':  denoting a word or expression whose meaning is dependent on the context in which it is used (see [[Foucault, Michel "What Is an Author?"]])
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*'''Derided:''' Express contempt for; ridicule (see [[“The Cultural Role of Rhetoric” by Richard Weaver]])
 
*'''Dialectic''': two-sided dialogue, formal argumentation system, conversation (see [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]])
*'''Dialectic''': two-sided dialogue, formal argumentation system, conversation (see [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]])
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*'''Doxa''': social knowledge (see [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]])
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*'''Doxa''': constantly evolving day-to-day knowledge, sometimes culturally based (see [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]])
*'''Dialectical reasoning''': moving back and forth between contrary lines of reasoning examing both arguments (see [["The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning" by Chaïm Perelman]])
*'''Dialectical reasoning''': moving back and forth between contrary lines of reasoning examing both arguments (see [["The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning" by Chaïm Perelman]])
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*'''Diachronic''': of, relating to, or dealing with phenomena (as of language or culture) as they occur or change over a period of time (see [["Nature of the Linguistic Sign" by Ferdinand de Saussure]])
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*'''Diachronic''': relating to phenomena, often literary or cultural, as they occur or change over a period of time (see [["Nature of the Linguistic Sign" by Ferdinand de Saussure]])
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*'''Disparagement:''' a communication that belittles somebody or something (see [[“The Cultural Role of Rhetoric” by Richard Weaver]])
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*'''Dispositio''': the system used for the organization of arguments in Western classical rhetoric (see [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]])
*'''Dispositio''': the system used for the organization of arguments in Western classical rhetoric (see [["On Distinctions between Classical and Modern Rhetoric" by Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede]])

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