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:

Douglas Brent:

Cynthia Selfe and Richard Selfe:

John M. Slatin:

Kathleen Yancey: