A motive view of communication

Fisher, Walter R.

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“…That is, rhetoric is the study of all the ways that we humans attempt to influence or persuade each other. While others have defined rhetoric as symbolic inducement, 12 I use the adjective "human" here to acknowledge that we humans use all of our senses to influence one another. I also use it to limit the scope of rhetoric to human interaction.…”

Section: Defining Violencementioning

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The Rhetoric of Physical Violence

Childers

2022

Rhetoric and Public Affairs

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This essay serves as the introductory essay for this special issue on “The Rhetoric of Violence.” In conversation with the six other essays in this special issue, I suggest that scholars in our field need to focus more explicitly on the rhetorical purposes of physical violence. To support that suggestion, I offer a working definition of how we might conceptualize violence broadly and then distinguish physical violence from two others kinds that rhetorical scholars have been studying for years now—rhetorical violence and structural violence. Distinguishing that first mode of violence as worthy of more of our attention. I then argue that the primary purpose of most physical violence is to affectively and symbolically define and reinforce individual and group identities.

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Section: Defining Violencementioning

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The Rhetoric of Physical Violence

Childers

2022

Rhetoric and Public Affairs

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“…In an alternative perspective, Fisher and O'Leary (1996) propose the organic metaphor of Fisher (1970) that shifts the focus of categorization. According to this model, we can divide the functions of rhetorical discourse in terms of a speaker's motivation:…”

Section: Classical Epideixismentioning

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Oratorical style and performance in the epideictic speeches of American presidents

Slavíčková¹

2014

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Epideictic speeches have often tended to be overlooked in rhetorical studies as texts that are merely ornamental in nature and function; however, their apparent innocuousness may conceal a subtle, cumulative role in political persuasion and consensus-formation. This article discusses the rhetorical style of epideictic memorial speeches by American presidents. Drawing on rhetorical scholars from Aristotle to Jakobson and Burke, the author considers the poetic function of language. In epideixis, there is a strong rhetorical integration of text, audience, performance and environment. Even in prosaic political contexts, language can be deployed poetically, and linguistic choices by political speakers contribute to the evaluation by the audience of a speaker's charisma. Using memorial speeches as an example of literary/non-literary hybridity, the author observes that the key persuasive element in epideixis is its poetic predictability.

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“…Just as corporate image is a “real fiction” (Fisher, 1970), so is the existence of penal accountancy from a public viewpoint. However, as Foucault (1977, p. 304) mentions, “The judges of normality are present everywhere.” We live in a society where we are subjects being judged in terms of our body, gestures, behavior, aptitude, and achievement; “it is based on them that the universal rein of the normative is based” (Foucault, 1977, p. 304).…”

Section: Disciplinary Powermentioning

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Reinterpreting corporate apologia as self‐discipline

Chikudate

2010

Corporate Communications: An International Journal

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PurposeThe paper aims to propose a reinterpretation of corporate apologia and social legitimacy from theoretical perspectives of phenomenology and Foucault's theory of discipline.Design/methodology/approachThe reinterpretation proposed in this paper is based on diagnostic theories aimed at making improvements by guiding practice in a determinate direction and by providing a basis for criticizing practice. The author also provides examples of adequate and inadequate corporate apologia along with the theoretical framework proposed in this paper.FindingsBesides shouldering responsibility corporations cannot help becoming disciplined subjects in order to re‐establish legitimacy with the public.Originality/valueThe paper proposes a view of corporate apologia as self‐discipline for corporations that have undergone mishaps in order to reestablish legitimacy. Some examples of Japanese multinational corporations, such as Toyota and Toshiba, are included to contextualize abstract ideas.

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A motive view of communication

Cited by 68 publications

References 3 publications

The Rhetoric of Physical Violence

The Rhetoric of Physical Violence

Oratorical style and performance in the epideictic speeches of American presidents

Reinterpreting corporate apologia as self‐discipline

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