I firmly believe that rhetorical criticism is a systematic way to examine symbolic actions,
artifacts and the reasons behind persuasion. In this study, I will explain Burke’s “literature as
equipment for life,” and McGee’s “ideograph” methods and analyze given phenomenon in
section three of this paper.
Keneth Burke considered literature as equipment for living that empowers human being
to understand the situation, and develops attitudes for approaching it. This method manifested
that proverbs are not merely a rhetoric that embellishes human speaking, but they are powerful
words that express human experiences and perspectives inherited from generations. He further
explains that proverbs are the unique names for typical, recurrent situations, …show more content…
McGee describes that meaning of a word comes into existence through its particular application.
And in equipment of living, Burke explains that people collectively name and size up the
situational experience and share it through communication.
Negotiated meaning: While defining equality, McGee has provided the evident reasoning
for why the sense of a term “equality” cannot be rigidified. He explains, in a given situation,
people figure out the best possible meaning by amplifying or curtailing its effect. Burke uses
word “fits” and explicitly mentions that people negotiate the meaning “until” people make
themselves comfortable with it.
C. Differences:
According to McGee, a word as its own is difficult to comprehend without connecting it
to larger frames of proposition. For example, “the rule of law” could propound an ambiguous
claim, but people can understand it because of the training they receive in the society to
understand these words in a particular context. McGee calls words as one of the …show more content…
I would conduct in-depth/detailed interviews of 5 students who are currently in their fifth
year of college. The aim of my work is to study how students reconnected the challenges that
they have had faced to the examples from the inspirational speeches, and how students came up
with a strategy by taking motivation from the speeches while attending the college. This study
will critically evaluate when the inspirational speeches have had an impact on their lives.
This study will also consider the economic, social and cultural circumstances in which
students made their decisions for administrating socio-cultural and economic context in which
students are improving their academic performance.
This study uses a qualitative analysis approach to analyze the individual and cultural
dimensions of using inspirational speeches as equipment for living, approach to understand
artifacts and the reasons behind persuasion. In this study, I will explain Burke’s “literature as
equipment for life,” and McGee’s “ideograph” methods and analyze given phenomenon in
section three of this paper.
Keneth Burke considered literature as equipment for living that empowers human being
to understand the situation, and develops attitudes for approaching it. This method manifested
that proverbs are not merely a rhetoric that embellishes human speaking, but they are powerful
words that express human experiences and perspectives inherited from generations. He further
explains that proverbs are the unique names for typical, recurrent situations, …show more content…
McGee describes that meaning of a word comes into existence through its particular application.
And in equipment of living, Burke explains that people collectively name and size up the
situational experience and share it through communication.
Negotiated meaning: While defining equality, McGee has provided the evident reasoning
for why the sense of a term “equality” cannot be rigidified. He explains, in a given situation,
people figure out the best possible meaning by amplifying or curtailing its effect. Burke uses
word “fits” and explicitly mentions that people negotiate the meaning “until” people make
themselves comfortable with it.
C. Differences:
According to McGee, a word as its own is difficult to comprehend without connecting it
to larger frames of proposition. For example, “the rule of law” could propound an ambiguous
claim, but people can understand it because of the training they receive in the society to
understand these words in a particular context. McGee calls words as one of the …show more content…
I would conduct in-depth/detailed interviews of 5 students who are currently in their fifth
year of college. The aim of my work is to study how students reconnected the challenges that
they have had faced to the examples from the inspirational speeches, and how students came up
with a strategy by taking motivation from the speeches while attending the college. This study
will critically evaluate when the inspirational speeches have had an impact on their lives.
This study will also consider the economic, social and cultural circumstances in which
students made their decisions for administrating socio-cultural and economic context in which
students are improving their academic performance.
This study uses a qualitative analysis approach to analyze the individual and cultural
dimensions of using inspirational speeches as equipment for living, approach to understand