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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"pentadic"”.
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A Pentadic Contrast Rhetorical Criticism and Journalistic Reporting
It is the purpose of this paper (1) to analyze the separate writings of a rhetorician and a journalist who both criticized selected campaign addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, (2) to discover the differences in the critical products derived from different purposes and methods, and (3) to describe …
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Risky business: A pentadic analysis of two West Virginia coal mining disasters
… the disaster or the discourse that followed, a pentadic analysis was completed. The analysis revealed that the coal companies constantly battled a tension between the elements of agency and purpose, while trying to overcome a scene that made safety challenging. In the end, one mining company …
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A Comparative Pentadic Analysis of Mediated Presidential Discourse During 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina
In his first term as president, George W. Bush was confronted with one of the worst national attacks in United States history: the September 11 terrorist attacks of 2001. Through the devastation, however, President Bush triumphed in unifying and guiding this nation during what would become the …
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James and Jude: a Rhetorical Dramatistic and Metaphoric Analysis
… and literature review, the metaphoric and pentadic methodologies are summarized. James was examined using metaphoric methodology, which revealed the letter's thematic elements more clearly than does biblical scholarship's conventional topical treatment. Key portions of the artifact …
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Towards public professionalism: A pentadic intervention in debate between the Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
<p>In this project, I propose an alternate rhetorical strategy for literacy educators (K-16) seeking to enter debates over common standards for "college- and career-readiness" in literacy. I argue that the NCTE's current strategy fails to invite public participation in debate, and to remedy this …
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Constructing the problem of "slash-and-burn" agriculture
… of hierarchies which structure discourse, and pentadic analysis.
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Gender, economic agency, and social class: A rhetorical analysis of Pearl Buck's The House of Earth Trilogy through the dramatistic pentad of Kenneth Burke
… Kenneth Burke’s theory of dramatism and the five pentadic terms – act, agent, agency, scene, and purpose. Using the pentadic ratios in conjunction with Burke’s theories of identification, mystery, hierarchy, and perfection, the succeeding chapters reveal how specific female characters gain and …
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People Like Me : Analyzing Universal Themes of the Holocaust Through a Culture-Specific Lens
… through which to view the memorials. This pentadic analysis reveals that Holocaust memorials address many of the same universal questions. The answers to these questions, however, depend on the culture surrounding the memorial. Such a finding seems to indicate that a global event such as …
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Patriotism, Courtesy of Toby Keith: The Voice of Country Music After September 11
… ensuing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. I use pentadic analysis to illuminate the vision presented in each song, and I utilize both media coverage and the Billboard charts to determine how well this vision "chained out" amongst the country music audience. Lastly, I utilize media coverage to …
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Planting the Seeds of Surreality, Cultivating the Dynamism of a Nation: Winston Miranda and the Rhetoric of Resilience in Post-Revolutionary Nicaraguan Art
… to the present day). Henceforth, my thesis is a pentadic criticism of the post-revolutionary components of Mirandas surrealist oil paintings. By aggregating the literal and latent content of Miranda's artworks as a collective drama and performance, I was able to locate and extract key act, scene, …
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Assistive technology as an accommodation on accountability assessments: an analysis of attitudes and knowledge of special education professionals
… interviews. Interview data was analyzed using pentadic analysis, a method of rhetorical analysis designed by Kenneth Burke (1945). Survey results indicated that the knowledge and attitudes scores between the two groups were similar, however regression analysis identified a significant increase …
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Burke, Rhetoric and The Doctor: A Rhetorical Analysis of Doctor Who
<p>This paper performs a rhetorical analysis of the science-fiction program, Doctor Who, using theories from Kenneth Burke. Series Five of the show is analyzed using Burke’s theory of identification, the representative anecdote and the dramatistic pentad. The analysis with identification theory …