Theories and Movements
From RhetorClick
Ideas of various scholars-
Ferdinand de Saussure, 1857-1913: signified and signifier are core of semiotics
I. A. Richards, 1893-1979: father of New Criticism
Mikhail Bakhtin, 1895-1975: polyphony, unfinalizability, carnival and grotesque, chronotope, heteroglossia ("The Dialogic Imagination"), speech genres
Kenneth Burke, 1897-1993: Dramatistic Pentad (act, scene, agent, agency, purpose), definition of man as symbol-using animal
Donald C. Bryant, 1905-1987: definitions of rhetoric
Richard Weaver, 1910-1963: man's nature is fourfold (rational, emotional, ethical, religious), "god terms" and "devil terms," Noble Rhetoric
Chaïm Perelman, 1912-1984: New Rhetorics
Roland Barthes, 1915-1980: author and scriptor, neutral and novelistic writing
Stephen Toulmin, 1922-2009: Toulmin Model of Argument (claim, data, warrant, backing, rebuttal, qualifier)
Michel Foucault, 1926-1984: author-function
Robert L. Scott, b. 1928: "epistemic rhetoric"
Jim W. Corder, 1929-1998: argument as emergence toward the other
Richard Ohmann, b. 1931:
S. Michael Halloran, b. 1939:
Lisa S. Ede, b. 1947, and Andrea A. Lunsford, b. 1942:
Dennis Baron, b. 1944:
