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MEANING
ENG 211: RHETORIC
T U E S D AY F E B R U A R Y 9 2 0 1 6
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REMINDER/UPDATE:
RHETORICAL ANALYSIS 1
Due THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11
(THIS WEEK)
BUT, I am going to offer a pre-emptive,
general extension to TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 16 (NEXT WEEK)
LINGUISTIC
REFLEXIVIT Y
THE INTELLECTUAL REFLECTION ON
THE FORCES OF LANGUAGE IN HUMAN
R E L AT I O N S
GENERAL SEMANTICISTS
Their work was influential but isnt actively kept alive.
Sought to remove misunderstanding from rhetoric.
General Semantics explains that words are not the
objects they represent.
Words can be abstract, or multiordinal.
Words structure our experience, but they are not the
same as experiences.
GENERAL SEMANTICISTS:
EXTENSIONAL DEVICES
Recommended using extensional devices can help avoid
misunderstanding.
Indexing is the use of subscript numerals to indicate the uniqueness of
two words.
Chain-indexing is used to indicate different states of the same word.
Dating shows how the meaning of a word changes over time.
Using etc. indicates that we can never say all there is to say about a
topic.
Quotes are used to indicate the specific meaning of a term.
Hyphens should be used when two ideas have previously been thought
to be different, but may, in fact, refer to the same idea.
SIGNIFICANT
SYMBOLS: SIGNS
T H AT A R O U S E
MEANING IN SELF
AND OTHERS
W H AT S Y M B O L S A R E S H U S P E C I F I C
A N D S E N S I B L E O N LY T O U S ?
ROBERT SCOTT:
RHETORIC IS
EPISTEMIC
IF RHETORIC IS EPISTEMIC, THEN IT
R E Q U I R E S T H AT U S E R S B E E T H I C A L .