Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Marilyn J. Young, Florida State University, College of Arts & Sciences, Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 24, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains v, 115 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

abstract: The aim of this project is an exploration of health literacy as found in the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae. The rhetoric of the Catholic Church clearly demonstrates its creation and promotion of moral authority over the health practices of the faithful. As such, the encyclical illustrates the means by which Catholic conscience dictates corporal existence. Through its denunciation of the evolving social mores of the 1960s, its condemnation of contraception, and its encouragement in the reception of natural law, the document offers the merits of Catholic marriage as guiding principles beneficial to all good men. Ultimately, group morality is conveyed as the path to health. Consideration of Humanae Vitae through a Burkean logological lens allows an inquiry into the elements of theology and biology, and evaluates the foundational language of each as a form of action. As well, the oracular nature of the rhetoric merits analysis, for the Church continues to maintain the encyclical as the final declaration of sexual rectitude. However, many Catholics and members of secular society disagree, necessitating a forecast which questions the rhetorical retention of the text. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. English 2010

La ‘inclusión social’ está de moda, pero ¿qué significa? El concepto es analizado en este artículo a través de los lineamientos del mercadeo político y los postulados de Kenneth Burke, teórico de la retórica. Teniendo como marco la más reciente campaña presidencial en el Perú, el objetivo del presente artículo es analizar hasta qué punto ‘inclusión social’ es un postulado estratégico o algo meramente coyuntural. Para ello, el análisis discursivo considera tanto elementos de la campaña del Partido Nacionalista Peruano (PNP) como promesas políticas del gobierno del presidente Humala, tal como la creación del Ministerio de Desarrollo e Inclusión Social.

Doctor of Philosophy / Curriculum and Instruction Programs / Marjorie R. Hancock / No Child Left Behind legislation has required public schools to increase efforts to measure and track student performance through school, district, state and nation-wide assessments. Researchers argue that it is essential for all students, including special education students, to be included in accountability assessments in order to help measure and track educational progress and compare the performance of schools, districts and states in terms of achieving educational goals. One method for including more special needs students in accountability assessments is to use accommodations during testing. Assistive technology is an accommodation that is approved for use on accountability assessments in many states and has the potential to significantly impact the performance of special education students. The primary purpose of this research was to gather and analyze data from special service providers (staff of a special education cooperative) and educators and administrators (employees of the school districts the cooperative serves) on the subject of using assistive technology as an accommodation on Colorado State Assessment Project (CSAP) testing. The researcher conducted a survey to measure the attitudes and knowledge of educators and special service providers on this subject. The survey was a five point Likert scale comprised of ten items designed to measure "attitudes" and ten items designed to measure "knowledge". Data was analyzed using backward regression analysis to compare scores between groups and consider the impact that years of work experience had on survey scores. The researcher used responses from survey data to select ten survey respondents to participate in in-depth 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 the attitude scores of employees of the special education cooperative as they gained work experience. Scores of district employees did not increase on either scale as participants gained work experience. Analysis of interview data provided rich description of participants’ knowledge and attitudes concerning the use of assistive technology as an accommodation and enabled the researcher to identify significant similarities and differences between groups of employees and the state standards intended to guide their decision making on this subject. Results of this research suggest a need for improving education on the subject of assistive technology, related state regulations and improving resources to foster the use of assistive technology as an accommodation on accountability assessments.

Syftet med denna kandidatuppsats i retorik är att söka svar på hur svenska UNICEF kommunicerar på det sociala mediet Facebook för att påverka människor till att skänka pengar och skapa identifikation med mottagarna. Uppsatsen använder sig av en neo-aristotelisk analysmetod för att analysera hur mottagare påverkas att bidra till organisationens verksamhet. Appels föreslagna identifikationsmetodansats tillämpas för att analysera vilken publik som kan antas skapa identifikation med UNICEF Sverige. Analysen genomfördes på fyra slumpvist utvalda inlägg innehållande text och bild, vilka publicerades på  organisationens Facebook-sida i februari 2017. Resultaten visar att UNICEF Sverige uppmanar till handling eller kommunicerar med mottagarna, vilka påverkas främst genom att inläggen talar till förnuftet. Organisation vänder sig främst till en publik som värdesätter och prioriterar barns välmående. Detta visades vara den publik som främst kan tilltalas av inläggen och som främst kan skapa identifikation med UNICEF Sverige för att bidra ekonomiskt till organisationen.

I den här uppsatsen undersöker jag filosofen Edmund Burkes begrepp det sublima i förhållande till visualiseringen av kontroll och död i sju målningar som representerar scener från tjurfäktningar. Här står konstnärerna Arturo Michelena (1863-1898), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) och Roberto Domingo y Fallola (1867-1956) för bildunderlaget. I undersökningens första analyskapitel belyser jag vikten av en tjurfäktares kontroll över tjuren och menar att denna kontroll är nödvändig för att det sublima överhuvudtaget ska kunna göra entré i arenan. Paradoxalt nog kräver det sublima även en rubbning av denna kontroll, vilket den otämjda tjuren bidrar till att förmedla. Den visuella sublimiteten uppstår först när kontrollen och icke-kontrollen balanseras, och visar sig vara starkt förknippad med den betraktarnatur den grundar sig på. I det andra analyskapitlet diskuterar jag representationen av död, vilken jag kopplar samman med motiv som framförallt visualiserar den skadade och döende hästen samt den vårdslösa och massiva tjuren. Här argumenterar jag för att hästens lidande är nödvändig för tjurfäktningens totalitet då den förstärker tjurfäktningens skådespel på liv och död. Mina bildanalyser baseras på semiotikens denotation och konnotation, och understöds av litteratur som behandlar tjurfäktningens estetiska och konstnärliga element i två utvalda tjurfäktningsteman, där mötet mellan tjurfäktare och tjur är det första, och målningar som porträtterar en tjur, en eller flera tjurfäktare samt en eller flera hästar det andra.

Since F.S. Boas coined the term in 1896, All's Well That Ends Well, Troilus and Cressida, and Measure For Measure have been generally accepted as "problem plays," and many critics have offered biographical, thematic, and formal explanations of why these plays are so "dark." In this thesis, I accept that these plays are "problems" and I propose a rhetorical explanation for dissatisfaction with them, especially with their endings. Drawing on Kenneth Burke's philosophy of literary form and his anthropology of man as the symbol-using animal, I show that in these plays Shakespeare frustrates the expectations of an audience for a definite ending through death or marriage which would define the "terms" characterized in each play; secondly, he provides no scapegoat whose victimage would allow the audience to recognize an order clearly proposed for its acceptance; finally, he supplies no symbol of order which credibly demonstrates its power to establish a renewed society. As rhetoric, these plays show an intense "dancing of attitudes" toward symbols of order and toward conventional forms which would provide a clear sense of an ending. As such, they show what Burke calls "self-interference" on the part of the playwright — a deliberate balancing of arguments for the sake of "quizzicality" toward language as symbolic action. According to this analysis, the problem plays remain problems for an audience which seeks identification with symbols of order; they are, however, a tribute to the agile mind of a master rhetorician. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

This essay is an attempt to show how certain elements, or techniques of history writing, can be used in creative non-fiction. It uses three major sources of theory. First, there is Charlotte Canning and Thomas Postlewait’s view on “the five themes of historiography,” which are indispensable for researching history: time, space, archive, identity, and narrative. The essay primarily focuses on narrative, because it is connected to representations of human lives, and as such contributes to meaning- creation. Second, the essay employs Hayden White’s concept of the historian’s working process and the notions of chronicle, story, mode of emplotment, mode of argument and ideological implications. Third is the method developed by Thomas Andrews and Flannery Burke of the five C’s of historical thinking: change over time, causality, context, complexity and contingency. Although these are separate theories, the essay shows how they can be complementary and help in the development of memoir writing, which is here my creative work, A Family Memoir in Essays, in particular the essays entitled “Trimdiniekis,” “Brasiliana,” and “A Sertaneja”.

The purpose of this research was to identify the motives and use of language of William Sloane Coffin, Jr., president of SANE/FREEZE organization. The rhetorical elements of his peace speeches between the years 1978-1988 were analyzed using Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad as a method of analysis.

Learning Agility (LA) is catapulting our understanding of the relationship between the measurement of LA and leadership success, a critical component for succeeding in a volatile, uncertain, complex (VUCA) environment. While the business sector has benefited from the research and practice around LA, this exploratory study takes an initial look at the applicability of LA to higher education leadership through in-depth interviews with eleven college presidents, coupled with the results of the Burke Learning Assessment Inventory (BLAI). Administered to the presidents and their senior teams, the BLAI was created by W. Warner Burke to measure nine dimensions that demonstrate specific behaviors related to LA. Overall, both the interviews with the presidents and BLAI scores evidenced strong LA views and behaviors. A close examination of the senior team roles and the need for LA revealed strengths and alignment with key dimensions of the BLAI, while noticeable gaps surfaced between the presidents’ views and BLAI self-ratings, illuminating opportunities for growth and further research. A strong relationship was revealed between presidents’ BLAI scores and those she deemed higher performers across the critical dimensions, providing a snapshot of the LA behaviors of successful higher education leaders. All presidents acknowledged a relationship between LA and higher education leadership success, with 64% stating that there was a strong relationship, and the remaining 36% stating that there was a relationship, but to varying degrees, identifying some of the key dimensions as less applicable to higher education.