Anchoring Innovation: A Classical Research Agenda

Sluiter, Ineke

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“…very instruments of anchoring that the Athenians utilised to highlight their competence and long tradition. Anchoring practices are common in different societies, groups, and periods (Sluiter 2017), and the Athenians are not an exception; they have had, as I argue, much experience (not unlike other ancient and modern societies) in finding some value in contemporary realities, selecting some aspects, and integrating them into familiar narratives, building upon their cultural memory.…”

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Sulla and the practices of anchoring in political discourse: cultural memory and the use of symbols in Roman Athens

Pagkalos¹

2021

Graeco-Latina Brunensia

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This paper discusses strategies of negotiating Roman control over Athens in a contested political sphere during the first century BCE. It explores the language in Athenian political discourse, political reactions to Roman power, and the ideological grounds for decision-making in the pre-and post-Sulla periods, tracing continuity in practices and focusing on the iconographical choices of the New Style coinage of Mentor and Moschion. To that end, it examines the different articulations of power as manifested at a symbolic level; it traces reforms in Athenian civic narratives in a period of increasing Roman activity in the East; it highlights links between Athenian cultural memory and decision-making during this period; finally, it explains the ways the embedded, new narratives were disseminated. The evidence shows significant political fluidity in first-century Athens and mirrors the political elites' understanding of the role of the past and the need for constructing new political narratives depending on circumstances.

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Section: čLánky / Articlesmentioning

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Sulla and the practices of anchoring in political discourse: cultural memory and the use of symbols in Roman Athens

Pagkalos¹

2021

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“…Despite the extraordinary role of the apostle Peter in political, cultural and religious history, modern publications only occasionally approach the figure of the apostle from an interdisciplinary perspective.8 This book aims to masterclass at the Anchoring Innovation website: www.ru.nl/oikos/anchoring-innovation/. See also Hekster (2017) and, for the concept of Anchoring, Sluiter (2017) and Raimondi Cominesi (2019) 24-40. 6 Hekster (2004).…”

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Peter, Popes, Politics and More: the Apostle as Anchor

Dijkstra¹

2020

The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE)

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Et iam tenemus obsides fidissimos huius spei, hic nempe iam regnant duo apostolorum principes; alter uocator gentium; alter, cathedram possidens primam, recludit creditas aeternitatis ianuas. Already we hold most trusty sureties for this hope, for already there reign here the two chiefs of the apostles, the one he who called the Gentiles, while the other who occupies the foremost chair opens the gates of eternity which were committed to his keeping.

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“…This is the case when they can connect what is perceived as new to what they consider familiar, known, already accepted, when, that is, innovations are "anchored". (Sluiter 2017 : 23) 1 "Anchoring" is a basic condition for successful linguistic exchanges, an instrument of argumentation, and one of the goals of persuasive rhetoric. This paper studies the argumentative use of "anchoring" against the wider backdrop of its role in language use.…”

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Old Is the New New: The Rhetoric of Anchoring Innovation

Sluiter

2021

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In life, language, and argument, we need to feel at home. “Anchoring” connects whatever seems “new” to what is considered familiar. This paper studies the argumentative use of “anchoring” in the wider context of its role in language use. “Anchoring” provides a unifying perspective in analyzing linguistic and rhetorical elements identified by different schools of thought (Sect. 2). Several features of language, elsewhere studied in the context of “discourse linguistics”, direct the addressee on how to anchor new information to the common ground. Categorizing, labeling and naming (topics from philosophy and psychology) can be considered anchoring functions. And formal linguistic iconicity anchors linguistic representations in evolutionarily older senso-motor systems. Section 3 discusses the anchoring effects of some specific discourse types: genealogy, mythology, aetiology, and etymology. All of these frequently take the form of narrative and are used in affective, “engaged” argumentation. Finally, the rhetorical and argumentative implications of the terminology of “new” and “old” itself are discussed, and one specific “anchoring trope” is analyzed, which sets up an anchor as a reference point for something new: the phrase “X is the new Y” (Sect. 4).

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Anchoring Innovation: A Classical Research Agenda

Cited by 50 publications

References 8 publications

Sulla and the practices of anchoring in political discourse: cultural memory and the use of symbols in Roman Athens

Sulla and the practices of anchoring in political discourse: cultural memory and the use of symbols in Roman Athens

Peter, Popes, Politics and More: the Apostle as Anchor

Old Is the New New: The Rhetoric of Anchoring Innovation

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