The New Rhetoric and the Humanities

Perelman, Chaïm

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“…7 Jurisprudence and biblical commentary are of course closely intertwined in Jewish tradition because Scripture is law. 8 Perelman (1979) himself describes systems of debate developed in Jewish jurisprudence that were designed to hold contradictory arguments in dialectical relation. 9 For a rich description of the interpretive practices of Rabbinic Judaism, and of the dialogic negotiation of meanings in the traditions of Halakah and Haggadah, see Kadushin (1965).…”

Section: Reason As Audiencementioning

confidence: 99%

Almost speaking a new rhetoric: The strangeness of the text ofLa Nouvelle Rhétorique

Arthos¹

2004

Southern Communication Journal

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Section: Reason As Audiencementioning

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Almost speaking a new rhetoric: The strangeness of the text ofLa Nouvelle Rhétorique

Arthos¹

2004

Southern Communication Journal

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“…Perelman reminds 20th-century thinkers that ancient rhetoricians used logical reasoning effectively in argument without tying it either to the necessity of first truths or axioms or to the universality of experience. 8 They also employed both intuition and evidence as complements to logic in argumentation. In Perelman's view, rhetoric gains its distinctive power from this association of logic with intuition and the evidence of particulars.…”

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Science, Rhetoric, and Public Discourse in Genetic Research

Lagay

1999

Camb Q Healthc Ethics

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Decisions concerning use of gene therapy will probably not be made within the privacy of what was once a dyadic doctor–patient relationship. More likely, some overarching guidelines will emerge directing or limiting the practice. Debate and position-taking over the myriad scientific, social, ethical, legal, and political implications of research into and manipulation of the human genome has intensified since the U.S. government officially launched the Human Genome Project in 1988 by appropriating funds to the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for genome research. The discourse this costly research endeavor has generated in the scientific and bioethics literature and even in the popular press outlines a host of issues likely to evoke attempts at line drawing and policymaking. Many of these issues lend themselves easily to the shorthand of dualistic opposition: somatic cell therapy (insertion of genes into patients' nonreproductive cells or tissue to accomplish the work of defective or missing genes) versus germ line therapy or engineering (manipulation of a patient's reproductive [germ] cells and the undifferentiated cells of early embryos); correction of defects and disease only versus enhancement of conditions not considered defects or diseases; intervening on the basis of phenotype only (physically expressed genetic traits or symptoms) versus intervening on the basis of genotype also (the biochemical composition of an individual's genome).

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“…They can still earn in a year more than many earn in a lifetime" (ibid 28 September 2009). Here, as it was frequently throughout the data, extremitisation is coupled with the rhetorical strategy of comparison (Perelman 1979;Just 2006) or rhetorical contrast (Edwards and Potter 1992), which encompasses the creation or disruption of hierarchies, comparing and contrasting concepts, objects, (and in this case people and scenarios) and creating dividing links between things (Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca 1969). Such strategies of contrast, for example earning in a year what others earn in a lifetime, or the juxtaposition of bankers "putting leftover caviar out for the birds" and a famine which is estimated to have killed at least one million people, both dramatise and simplify the argument.…”

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“…Such extremitisation (Potter 1996) and contrast (Perelman 1979;Edwards and Potter 1992;Just 2006) set up marked differences in values: conspicuous consumption versus civic duty; luxurious indulgence versus personal sacrifice; individualism versus the public good; and, underpinning all of these, financial reward versus social worth. The categorical good-bad contrasts constructed in this extract delineate society's "normative contours" (Cohen 1972: 17), and illustrate their transgression by bankers.…”

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Exploring media construction of investment banking as dirty work

Stanley

Davey

Symon

2014

Qual Research in Orgs & Mgmt

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Exploring media construction of investment banking as dirty work Structured Abstract:Purpose -To explore how two kinds of UK-based media positioned investment banking as dirty work during the financial crisis, thereby engaging in moral enterprise (Becker 1963) and contributing to the shaping of society's normative contours (Cohen 1972).Design/methodology -We employ rhetorical analysis to explore how newspaper editorials and an online blog portray investment banking as tainted between April 2008 and October 2009.Findings -These media sources construct the values and behaviours of investment bankers, rather than the tasks of their occupation, as morally tainted. Through specific rhetorical strategies they advance three key arguments: bankers are morally tainted because their wealth is excessive; because their wealth is not earned; and because they are selfish and materialist.Originality/value -In investigating media designations of investment banking as dirty work, the paper addresses two aspects of dirty work which are underexplored. Firstly it examines a high-prestige occupation and secondly investigates the construction and attribution of taint to a previously untainted occupation. It makes two methodological contributions to the literature: contributing to the nascent interest in the media's construction of dirty work (for example, Grandy and Mavin 2012); and using rhetorical analysis to study the construction of taint.

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The New Rhetoric and the Humanities

Cited by 207 publications

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Almost speaking a new rhetoric: The strangeness of the text ofLa Nouvelle Rhétorique

Almost speaking a new rhetoric: The strangeness of the text ofLa Nouvelle Rhétorique

Science, Rhetoric, and Public Discourse in Genetic Research

Exploring media construction of investment banking as dirty work

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