Elegy in a critical grave‐yard

Mohrmann, G. P.

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“…Foss also questioned whether discourse itself is too opaque to yield meaningful data about motive. Mohrmann (1980) was unimpressed by what he saw as a fascination with novel terminology at the expense of analysis; adherents of fantasy theme analysis, he suggested, ''accomplish little, other than to imply that the old horse has been replaced by a more adventuresome steed' ' (1980, p. 270). Incorporating Mohrmann's critique, Gunn (2003) concluded that fantasy theme analysis was doomed to remain stagnant unless it embraced either its alleged Freudianism or a more distinctively ideological stance.…”

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Man-Child in the White House

Vultee¹

2012

Journalism Studies

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This study uses fantasy theme analysis to examine reader comments on news articles at foxnews.com in an attempt to unravel the rhetorical vision that Fox readers construct to help them make political and personal sense of Barack Obama's presidency. Results describe the dramatic forms that readers envision and re-enact when articles about the president*favorable, unfavorable, or tangential*are presented.

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Section: Literature: Symbolic Convergence and Fantasy Theme Analysismentioning

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Man-Child in the White House

Vultee¹

2012

Journalism Studies

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“…With SCT, the reinventing the wheel charge has received several artistic representations. Mohrmann (1980) wrote: "I would be led to suspect that the new vocabulary simply is a way to smuggle our pony [Neo-Aristotelian criticism] past all those editors and reviewers . .…”

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“…Shortly after that, FTA began to receive more scholarly scrutiny as the partial subject of a Speech Communication Association paper (Leff & Mohrmann, 1977), and the sole topic of an SCA "Seminar Program" in 1978, andCentral States Speech Association "Spotlight" program in 1980. Here, the reactive criticism began and continued in several articles (Mohrmann, 1980(Mohrmann, , 1982a(Mohrmann, , 1982bVatz & Weinberg, 1987), "state-ofthe-discipline" review essays (Black, 1980;Farrell, 1980;Gronbeck, 1980;Hart, 1986;Leff, 1980), book reviews (Farrell, 1982;hie, 1987;Osborn, 1986), and rhetorical asides in journal articles (Brummett, 1984;Goodall, 1983;Lucaites & Condit, 1985;Reid, 1983).…”

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In Defense of Symbolic Convergence Theory: A Look at The Theory and Its Criticisms After Two Decades

1994

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This paper argues that not only is theory-building often unfashionable, but the spurious assumption that the presence of scholarly disputes signifies the need to abandon theory-building efforts adds to the difficulties of those willing to develop and expand general theories of human communication. We argue that the time is at hand to provide a new response to the published criticism of the symbolic convergence theory (SCT) and its attendant method of fantasy theme analysis (FTA). Since 1977, critics have made a number of charges about the usefulness of the symbolic convergence theory. We have collapsed the more frequently mentioned and argued points into four indictments of SCT: ( 1 ) SCT's proponents have not clarified the basic presuppositions that undergird the theory;(2) SCT is Freudian-based and therefore applies only to small group communication;(3) SCT's insights are researcher-dependent not dependent on the theory; (4) SCT is a relabeling of old concepts with ttivialjargon that lacks precision and clarity. This paper explains and refutes each indictment. The paper concludes with a discussion of constructive criticism and the harms resulting from indiscriminate and unjustified criticism on theory building in general.

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Toward a rhetorical theory of deixis

Prasch

2016

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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Elegy in a critical grave‐yard

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

Man-Child in the White House

Man-Child in the White House

In Defense of Symbolic Convergence Theory: A Look at The Theory and Its Criticisms After Two Decades

Toward a rhetorical theory of deixis

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