Piety, propriety, and perspective: An interpretation and application of key terms in Kenneth Burke'spermanence and change

Debating “what out to be”: The comic frame and public moral argument

“…Scholars agree that perspective by incongruity is a particularly suitable strategy for exposing transgressions (Dow, 1993;Rosteck & Leff, 1989). In this strategy, a rhetor uses terms characteristic of one domain of experience to "name .…”

Intertribal dance and cross cultural communication: Traditional powwows in Ohio

“…As such, the intertribal powwows of central Ohio are an example of self-assured co-cultural communication (Orbe, 1996;Orbe, 1998) that uses Burke's (1954Burke's ( /1965 concept of "perspective by incongruity" to break down established ideological orientations and replace them with new ones, and thus also a new ideology (see Dow, 1994;Fitch & Mandziuk, 1997;Rosteck & Leff, 1989). Thus, powwows are an important opportunity to negotiate the relationship between American Indian peoples and non-American Indians.…”

AIDS, Perspective by incongruity, and gay identity in Larry Kramer's “1,112 and counting”

“…187, 194). Rosteck and Leff (1989) examine the rhetoric of another anarchist, Voltairine de Cleyre, focusing on her efforts to redefine the significance of the Haymarket riot. Rosteck and LefFs analysis, however, divorces the rhetoric from audience and context; they argue that Burke's concept allows them "to view an oratorical text as a local achievement without dissolving it into the immediate historical context" (1989, p. 339).…”