Rhetoric: The Methodology of the Humanities

Raymond, James C.

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“…To establish the validity of a research project, one must first frame the scope of the contribution. As Raymond (1982) mentioned, it is often the case that as research becomes more certain of its results, it also becomes narrower in scope. Thus, should we wish to make highly specific truth claims, such as those made in the natural sciences, we must work on reducing our scope until it deals with a highly constrained phenomenon.…”

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Hermeneutic Inquiry for Digital Games Research

Tanenbaum

2015

Comput Game J

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Section: Closing Thoughts: Validity and Burden Of Proofmentioning

confidence: 96%

Hermeneutic Inquiry for Digital Games Research

Tanenbaum

2015

Comput Game J

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“…In turn, there is a common view that the humanities tend to be a more theoretical enterprise, and its theories are markedly different from scientific theories. In part, this view has its historical roots in the modern divide between science and other modes of inquiry, as introduced by Auguste Comte, who distinguished sciences as empirical disciplines from 'speculations' (Raymond 1982: 779, St. Pierre 2012. This introduced the most pronounced divide between knowledge afforded by method-driven research and that afforded by theory (as speculation) -a divide that made it necessary to introduce 'scientific theory' as a special type of knowledge structure, always differentiated from 'other' kinds of theories.…”

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Metaphorical modelling as research method in semiotics

Pärn¹

2017

Punctum

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Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the problematics of methodology in semiotics concerns the more fundamental question of the disciplinary nature of semiotics -whether semiotics is, or should be, a theoretical discipline or an empirical discipline -or both -and the particular modes of inquiry deemed proper for each perspective. Although debating over the disciplinary nature, or, to put it more simply, over how to practice semiotics, in those terms might seem a thing of the past, the problematics reveals its acuteness each time the relationship between theories, methods and practices/applications, as well as their scope and meaning in semiotics is discussed. Yet what remains also latent in these discussions is a more fundamental question of the particular 'brand' of 'science' and 'scientificity' that semiotics is expected (or not) to align with. One of the results of leaving these issues implicit and unarticulated is the divide often seen between theory and method, or theoretical and empirical semiotics.This article attempts to demonstrate how modelling functions as a bridge between theory and method. Yet the value of this bridging depends exactly on acknowledging the more fundamental layers of semiotic inquiry. The main aim of the paper is to propose and develop the concept of metaphorical modelling as a particular methodological tool in semiotic inquiry as well as the humanities more broadly. The role of metaphors in science is a known issue, however, there are few approaches that deal with it explicitly in the humanities, and as a methodological issue. The use of theories and concepts viewed as method brings to the fore the role of language in methodology. Thereby an awareness of the metaphorical functioning and processing of language becomes necessary for understanding how theoretical language is used in research.The article attempts to show that the traditional distinction between theoretical concepts as precise, literal and analytical, and metaphor as imprecise figure of speech is not adequate for understanding how theoretical constructs are used in the humanities in general and semiotics in particular. From this perspective, one can notice that the metaphorical use of theories, constructs and models has been central in the humanities and semiotics for a while.

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“…It was later applied to literary criticism-analysis of text focusing on the audience, the author's intention and the text structure; including both the process of creating the text by the author, as well as the interpretation by the audience (Sloane & Perelman, 2019). Rhetoric is seen as a methodology used in the humanities (Raymond, 1982) and often conducted using a qualitative method. Traditional rhetoric focuses on the author and speaker, whereas the modern rhetoric focuses on the reader and listener (Sloane & Perelman, 2019).…”

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Argument and information structures in sociology research papers : analysis of the abstract and introduction sections

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