scholarly journals My Rhetorical Situations and Discourse Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Rigvi Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Rhetorical Situations

Article about discourse communities

Petrarch's Defense of Secular Letters, the Latin Fathers, and Ancient Roman Rhetoric

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Brenda Deen Schildgen
Keyword(s):  
Classical Rhetoric ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Rhetorical Situations ◽  
Epistolary Form ◽  
The Church ◽  
Roman Rhetoric

Abstract: Like the Church Fathers before him, Petrarch was forced to defend secular learning against its detractors, and his defenses draw on many of the same arguments that Augustine and Jerome had used. In these defenses he blends classical rhetoric and Christian values, and his procedures also follow the traditions of classical rhetoric, relying on the epistolary form and utilizing the Ciceronian manner of debating all topics from opposite standpoints. Perhaps, however, because his indecisiveness complemented the classical rhetorical premise that many issues present many possible resolutions, Petrarch also rejects secular learning in some of his writings. His arguments are therefore conclusive only within their unique rhetorical situations.

Utilizing Information "Shape" as an Interface Metaphor Based on Genre

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine G. Toms ◽  
D. Grant Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cues ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Digital Document ◽  
Interface Metaphor ◽  
The Impact

Documents have conventions which have evolved within discourse communities and which facilitate document use. These conventions are represented in a document by visual cues that define a shape and serve as an interface metaphor in a user's interaction with a digital document. In this paper we report on the results of two studies, one of which examined the impact of . . .

Security as translation: threats, discourse, and the politics of localisation

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 2491-2517 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOLGER STRITZEL
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Cultural Processes

AbstractThis article aims at enhancing our understanding of how collective interpretations of threats, stabilised and temporarily fixed in names, travel across different local discourse communities. I contend that globally accepted names result from gradual cross-cultural processes of localisation. Specifically, I argue that the discursive dynamics of elusiveness, compatibility and adaptation suggest a framework of analysis for how collective interpretations or names travel.

Enhancing Understanding in Interdisciplinary Communicatio

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilmini Peiris
Keyword(s):  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
New Model

Over the years we see that interdisciplinary teams are increasingly common in industry, government, and society in general. It is critical to be able to integrate knowledge and skills from several disciplines in order to evolve toward a state of "collective intelligence," which entails functioning more like a coherent, intelligent organism than like a collection of disassociated, independent thinkers.This presentation will introduce a new model for communicating effectively. It will describe ways in which the communication modalities interact. It will present strategies for capitalizing on the potential of each modality to enhance communication among different discourse communities.

The discursive construction of accountability for communicative action to citizens: A contrastive analysis across Israeli and British media discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 605-632
Author(s):  
Elda Weizman ◽  
Anita Fetzer
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Action ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
British English ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Daily Telegraph ◽  
The Guardian

Abstract This paper sets up to show how accountability for communicative action is constructed in online journalism as an object of talk, comparing British English and Israeli Hebrew discourse communities. The analysis utilizes a discourse-pragmatic frame of reference supplemented by cognitive semantics and corpus-assisted tools. The discussion draws on data collected from the websites of The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, Ha’aretz and Ynet. Focusing on self- and other-positioning of commenters and columnists as citizens, we explore how the accountability of the elite for communicative action and the accountability of their actions to citizens are discursively constructed by ordinary persons (in their role as commenters) and by non-ordinary persons (in their role as columnists, including journalists, experts and authors). The analysis indicates conceptual similarities coupled with discursive differences between the discourse communities under study.

scholarly journals Fannish discourse communities and the construction of gender in "The X-Files"

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Regan Wills
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Discussion Spaces

Fandoms can constitute discourse communities, where fans make claims about issues of real-world political importance, such as the relationship between gender, power, and autonomy, and where other fans engage with and evaluate those claims. In fan works and fan analyses of Dana Scully in the television show The X-Files, fans pose claims both in discussion spaces and in the creation of fan fiction, and these fannish evaluations and discussions of these fictions analyze those claims.

scholarly journals The Birth of Applied Linguistics

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Linn
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Real World ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
World Language ◽  
Teaching Reform ◽  
Linguistic Historiography

Summary The major claim of this article is that there is an independent and clearly defined chapter in the development of linguistics, beginning in the 1880s, which represents the birth of modern applied linguistics, and which has been overlooked in linguistic historiography because of the comparative marginalisation of applied linguistics in the literature. This is the Anglo-Scandinavian School, a phrase its members used to describe themselves. Pioneers within phonetics, these linguists applied their phonetic knowledge to a range of ‘real world’ language issues, notably language-teaching reform, orthographic reform, language planning, and the study of the spoken language. As well as presenting the ideas of the Anglo-Scandinavian School and how they were developed, this article interrogates the notion of a school in intellectual history and proposes that it may in fact be more fruitful to view intellectual history in terms of discourse communities.

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