Comm 100 Midterm: Rhetoric in Civic Life

The labels and descriptions rhetors attach to acts, agencies, agents, scenes, and purposes.

A name, word, phrase or maxim which stirs vivid impressions involving the listener's most basic values and readies the listener for action.

The emotional or cultural meaning attached to a sign; it is what is signified.

<p>The literal, commonsense meaning of a sign, ostensibly value-free and objective.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language use with a linear structure that operates through reason and not intuition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language used in the real world to confuse or deliberately distort its actual meaning rather than to achieve understanding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An idea premised on two assumptions: language is primarily a species of action, and understanding human relations and motives is best through symbolic action analysis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A word used to denote a thing in a way that avoids connotations of harshness or unpleasantness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A pattern or structure whose parts are so integrated that one cannot describe the pattern simply by referring to the parts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An ordinary language term found in political discourse representing collective commitment to a normative goal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language designed to make the ordinary seem extraordinary.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A figure of speech in which two dissimilar things are said to be similar.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A direct presentation of an individual object that widens our conception of rationality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The culturally established and sanctioned terms that compose people's taken-for-granted understanding of the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A process in which people reject the connotation of a symbol and attempt to change its connotation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Used to describe the relationship among signs, meanings, and referents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A screen composed of terms through which humans perceive the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that the structure of a language influences the way people perceive the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sentences that use a passive verb in order to delete the agent of action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People's participation in individual or collective action to develop solutions to social, economic, and political challenges.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Memory that is shared and constructed by a group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The art of constituting character, community, and culture in language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That which is in the character of the speaker.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The dominant ideology of a society, exerting social control.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A communicative process through which people are unified into a whole.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ideas, values, and beliefs that guide behaviors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That which relies on argument itself, by showing or seeming to show something.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That which leads the audience to feel emotion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A theory that rejects the human agent as the primary source of change.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability to get things done.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A type of collective memory that combines memories of the dominant culture and fragments of marginalized groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Any person, group, or institution that uses symbolic action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The use of symbolic action by human beings to share ideas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The capacity to act in a way that will be recognized or heeded by others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reality as understood through the symbols humans use.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An arbitrary representation of something else.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Expressive human action, the rhetorical mobilization of symbols to act in the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Symbols found in language, whether spoken or written.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Symbols such as pictures, images, objects, artifacts, and actions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rhetoric that foregrounds the body as part of symbolic action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reading in which a viewer takes the connoted meaning full and straight.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Occurs when the person engaging in symbolic action functions as proof of the argument they advance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Photographic images recognized by everyone within a public culture and representing historically significant events.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Staged acts designed for media dissemination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reading in which the viewer accepts some hegemonic meanings but recognizes exceptions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reading where the viewer challenges the connotational meanings of a text from an oppositional perspective.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Visuals possess the characteristic of presence because of their immediacy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rhetoric that makes ideas present through visual display.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A culture distinguished by the ubiquity of visual forms of communication.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of the relationships among signs, meanings, and referents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The three primary components of the Toulmin model of argument.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A dramatic vision that serves to organize everyday experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The literal commonsense meaning of a sign.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A particular understanding of reality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The obligation to offer reasons sufficient to overcome presumption in an argument.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The beauty found in a narrative characterized by strong plot and character development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Earth is the melting ice cream.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The burden to engage the argument.</p> Signup and view all the answers