A Modern Theory of Stasis

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“…This surprising observation became the starting point for the second round of analysis, which details the rhetorical legitimation strategies that the informants recount and/or apply. Strategies of rhetorical defense are developed not only in classical texts on the genre of legal speech (Hoppmann, 2014) but also in a number of modern socio-political contexts (Just & Mouton, 2014;Ware & Linkugel, 1973), including an increasing interest in organizational crisis communication (Coombs et al, 2010). In this latter context, Benoit (1997Benoit ( , 2015 adopted classical rhetorical concepts to develop five general categories for countering an attack and restoring organizational image: denial, evasion of responsibility, reduction of offensiveness, corrective action, and mortification.…”

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Organizational norms of sexual harassment and gender discrimination in Danish academia: From recognizing through contesting to queering pervasive rhetorical legitimation strategies

Guschke

Just

Muhr

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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Studies of sexual harassment in professional contexts, including academia, provide detailed explanations of the predominance and pervasiveness of sexist organizational norms that enable harassing behavior—and offer a thorough critique of the structures and practices that support and reproduce these norms. When sexist organizational norms are linked to acts of sexual harassment, it becomes clear that harassment is systemic, and that organizations tend to justify and excuse the very norms and behaviors that propagate harassment. Focusing on the context of Danish universities, we do not ask whether sexism exists in Danish society generally and in academia specifically, but rather, why issues of systemic sexism and normalized sexual harassment have been ignored for so long and how sexist organizational norms have been maintained. Based on an investigation of prevalent rhetorical strategies for legitimating sexual harassment and gendered discrimination, we discuss how recognizing these strategies may translate into concerted action against them. Introducing queer organization studies as a lever for such translation, we suggest that a norm‐critical approach may, first, explain how currently dominant norms offer sexist excuses for continued harassment and, consequently, delegitimize and change these unjust norms and the untenable practices they support.

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Section: The Rhetorical Legitimation Of Harassmentmentioning

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Organizational norms of sexual harassment and gender discrimination in Danish academia: From recognizing through contesting to queering pervasive rhetorical legitimation strategies

Guschke

Just

Muhr

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Recently, Michael J. Hoppmann (2014) classified as many as 15 stases in his “modern” stasis theory; however, the stases are more usually divided into four categories as follows: Conjecture : did something actually happen? Definition : what are the key characteristics of something? What is it? Quality : how severe or mild is something?…”

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Changing Climate, Changing Terrain: The Stasis Metaphor and the Climate Crisis

Weech

2020

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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Rhetorical theory has frequently relied on metaphors of place and positioning as heuristics to build better arguments. This article utilizes one such metaphor, that of stasis theory, as a method by which we might change the terrain of the conversation surrounding the climate crisis. As an example, the author does a rhetorical analysis of a recent agricultural report from the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment and finds that, rather than using traditional questions of conjecture and quality, the authors of the report focus on questions of procedure and definition to reframe the discussion surrounding the climate crisis. Drawing from the rhetoric in this report, the author suggests that technical communicators might similarly produce more fruitful conversations around the climate crisis if they focus on what to do (procedure) and redefining the crisis as a local issue (definition).

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“…A bibliografía divulgativa existente en relación a temas como a complexidade (Morin, 1994), o caos (Gleick, 1988), a lóxica difusa ou borrosa (Kosko, 1995) ou a «stasis» (Hoppmann, 2014), é abundante; tamén o é no relativo á súa aplicabilidade no eido dos estudos literarios, como manifestan os traballos de Brady (1990), Hayles (1990), Reed (1996), Kundert-Gibbs (1999), Hippolyte (2006), MaCarthy (2006), aínda que non falten traballos que a cuestionen (Matheson + Kirchhoff, 1997). Cunha posición máis matizada, Kellert analizando diferentes achegas que vinculan creación literaria e teorías do caos sinala que «some of these attempts to make use of chaos theory merit serious attention, some are harmless speculation, and some are simply misleading» (2008: 2).…”

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Carlos Casares, autor dramático. Unha revisión crítica

Vieites¹

2018

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Resumo: Carlos Casares é autor dun único texto dramático publicado, no que propón un novo modelo de creación dramática nun momento en que o campo literario galego estaba plenamente mediatizado pola loita contra a ditadura, polas liberdades e polo recoñecemento do carácter diferencial da nación galega. Neste artigo propoñemos unha lectura do texto nese contexto sociocultural e político, pero tamén á luz de diferentes teorías que permite considerar ata que punto no texto de Casares se estaban asentando os principios básicos do que se ten definido como literatura nacional, unha praxe artística que supera a instrumentalización e promove a autonomía discursiva.Palabras clave: Complexidade, estrañamento, caos, azar, pensamento diverxente, realismo máxico.Abstract: Carlos Casares is the author of a single published dramatic text, where he proposes a new model of dramatic enactment at a time when the literary field was fully mediated by the struggle against dictatorship, for freedom and for the recognition of the differential character of the Galician nation. In this paper we propose a reading of the text in that sociocultural and political context, but also to the light of different theories which allow us to consider to what extent this text by Casares was settling the basic principles of what has been defined as national literature, an artistic praxis with a strong discursive autonomy and devoid of instrumentalism.

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A Modern Theory of Stasis

Cited by 14 publications

References 25 publications

Organizational norms of sexual harassment and gender discrimination in Danish academia: From recognizing through contesting to queering pervasive rhetorical legitimation strategies

Organizational norms of sexual harassment and gender discrimination in Danish academia: From recognizing through contesting to queering pervasive rhetorical legitimation strategies

Changing Climate, Changing Terrain: The Stasis Metaphor and the Climate Crisis

Carlos Casares, autor dramático. Unha revisión crítica

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