Theories and Movements
From RhetorClick
This page discusses key rhetorical movements and the theories associated with those movements.
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Belletristic/Elocution
Semiotics
Ferdinand de Saussure, 1857-1913: signified and signifier are core of semiotics
Roland Barthes, 1915-1980: author and scriptor, neutral and novelistic writing
Mikhail Bakhtin, 1895-1975: Polyphony, Unfinalizability, Carnival and Grotesque, Chronotope, Heteroglossia ("The Dialogic Imagination"), Speech genres
Literary Criticism
I. A. Richards, 1893-1979: father of New Criticism
New Rhetorics
Kenneth Burke, 1897-1993: Dramatistic Pentad (act, scene, agent, agency, purpose), Definition of Man as symbol-using animal
Chaim Perelman, 1912-1984: New Rhetorics
Donald C. Bryant, 1905-1987: definitions of rhetoric
Rogerian Rhetoric
Jim W. Corder, 1929-1998: argument as emergence toward the other
Douglas Brent: Rogerian Rhetoric as an alternative to Traditional Rhetoric
Post-Structuralism
Michel Foucault, 1926-1984: author-function
Pedagogical Studies
Lisa S. Ede, b. 1947: Distinctions Between Classical and Modern Rhetoric
Andrea A. Lunsford, b. 1942: Distinctions Between Classical and Modern Rhetoric
Writing and Technology
Cynthia L. Selfe: Influential Role in "Computers in the Composition Classroom"
Richard J. Selfe Jr.: Computer Interface as Representation of Oppression of Diverse Cultures
Dennis Baron, b. 1944:
Conservatism
Richard Weaver, 1910-1963: man's nature is fourfold (rational, emotional, ethical, religious), God and Devil Terms, Noble Rhetoric, Anti-Nominalism
Uncategorized
Stephen Toulmin, 1922-2009: Toulmin Model of Argument
Robert L. Scott, b. 1928: Epistemic Rhetoric
Richard Ohmann, b. 1931:
S. Michael Halloran, b. 1939: Rhetoric in Existentialist Literature
Sorapure et al.?
Palmquist et al.?
Bill Hart-Davidson and Steven D. Krause:
Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle:
?: Semanticism
