COMM 201 Exam Questions With Correct
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What is the significance of understanding the 18th and 19th centuries as times of social
transitions? - Answer-Revolution of machines: Industrial revolution,Machine as metaphor,
Division of Labor (Adam Smith). Rise of the firearm
-Revolution of R...
What is the significance of understanding the 18th and 19th centuries as times of social
transitions? - Answer✔-Revolution of machines: Industrial revolution,Machine as metaphor,
Division of Labor (Adam Smith). Rise of the firearm
-Revolution of Reason-Locke, Property Rights
-American Revolution
-French Revolution
-Alexis de Tocqueville: Rise of equality, Increasing challenges to slavery
What is the importance of the rise of modern economies for our study of rhetoric - Answer✔-
Standardization of currency: Shift from work to 'job', Rise of cash economy
-Development of merchant class: Move from indentured labor to wages
Rise of economics as field of study
What is the driving concern in (and for) rhetorical theory after World War II - Answer✔-Impact
of World War II/ Rise of Soviet Bloc on European intellectual thought
-Concern for how to govern large groups in a mediated world
According McGee, what is the difference between 'the public' and 'the people'? - Answer✔-The
Public: Site of democracy. Where people are willing to take risks for personal self-expression.
Understood in relation to its counterpart, private
-The People:collective with a generalized sense of common identity which is difficult to manage
and prone to a lack of civil behavior.
The people is our irrational state that grants the populous sovereign power and keeps political
authority in check.
What are the significant features of the public? - Answer✔A site of democracy 2.) Where people
are willing to take risks for personal self-expression
What are the significant features of the people? - Answer✔-Literal extension of single person
into multiple persons
-Collective of individuals
Action through collection, i.e., mob
Failure to respond to logic or logical argument
Collective force that transcends both individuality and reason
When are the people most significant in public discourse - Answer✔...
What is the role of triangulating as a means of rhetorical criticism - Answer✔Triangulating
considers rhetorical theory and notion of the audience, social theory and notions of mass.
Consciousness and ideology, and notions of the people and specific- rhetorical practices. IN
terms of rhetorical criticism, it allows one to understand there 3 points as sites of hegemonic
negotiation therefore allowing one to conceive the people in a way that accounts for their
rhetorical function when making arguments designed to warrant social action, even society itself.
Triangulation provides a rationalization for rhetorical dispositions which seek to grant
justifications for the operationalization of foreign entities and general masses in the functional
capacity of the material world.
How does Burke believe symbols are so important to the study of communication - Answer✔-
Burke sees humans as symbol using creatures
-We construct the world around us through use of symbols
-Symbol using is what distinguishes humans from other animals & creatures
Why does Burke discourage the study of persuasion as the central rhetorical function? -
Answer✔-Rhetoric is the use of language by human agents to influence other human agents
i.e., ability to live in the present and the past simultaneously
-Burke - "the key term for the 'old rhetoric' was persuasion and its stress upon deliberative
design. The key term for the 'new rhetoric' is identification..."
For Burke, what is the difference between motion and action - Answer✔-Burke distinguishes
between motion and action
Thing move (response to pressure)
People act (involves deliberate choice)
-Metaphor of drama about how people act
Human tendency to action requires dramatistic understanding
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