Dementia is a degenerative disease which appears to take away personhood and identity and calls into question how we understand what it means to be a person. My argument is that how people with dementia are seen and imagined is key both to the understanding of their value and the care that is offered. The aim of this study is to determine how the Christian ethos of Methodist Homes (MHA) influences the care of people with dementia in order to develop a general theology of care from within practical theology. The thesis explores the ways in which the Methodist emphases of social justice and prevenient grace offer a basis for dementia care, and how MHA has drawn on its origins within the Methodist Church to develop an ethos of care that places respect for the person with dementia at the centre. This concern for those with dementia is then surveyed and the themes of respect and relationality emerge offering the potential for human becoming. Within MHA the care offered is based on a person-centred model. In order to discover how the Christian ethos of the organisation influences care this thesis explores patterns of delivering care in three homes of each of three types; well-established, recently-acquired and new-build. In each home the views of the staff were surveyed. Three in-depth interviews were conducted when questions were asked in order to understand their perception of the person with dementia. The interviews uncovered what carers regarded as good care and when care did not meet the needs, and why they believed that happened. Browning’s ‘strategic practical theology’ was used to evaluate these findings from within a Christian context to examine the influence of MHA’s ethos on the care offered. The core value chosen as the most important for care was ‘respect’; and while the care offered across all types was ‘person-centred’ the way it was delivered varied. The culture of MHA that gave rise to the values is investigated, along with the challenge of retaining ‘mutuality’ as an ideal as the needs of older people changed. The themes that emerged were those around quality of life and the things that enable the change in thinking from basic ‘caring’ to ‘caring for the person’ as the person is seen in a different way. Dementia is sometimes called the ‘theological disease’, and this understanding of dementia and the person is explored to discern what can be offered from theology to the best ideals of care in order to provide true person-centred care that is respectful of the person. I argue from within practical theology that a new way of seeing the person with dementia is needed in order to anticipate the possibility for human flourishing that is possible in a person, even in dementia. And that, offered with respect, good person-centred dementia-care can be a sign of the Kingdom. Part 1 of the D.Prof. comprises four sections in which I explore dementia from within practical theology; how it impacts on personhood, how I, as a practitioner within Methodist Homes (MHA), could enable others to offer care of the whole person; and how the carers’ understanding of the person makes a difference. In the first section, the literature was surveyed in order to discover the historical development of the term dementia. Until the middle of the twentieth century, there was little care as the condition was not named. But then drugs were discovered that could control unsocial behaviour, and the medical model of care developed. However, a new culture of care developed (person-centred care), because of the better understanding of the social nature of the disease. From within the context of theology, I explored how personhood can be understood within dementia and how, even in dementia, it might be possible to grow into the fullness of Christ as spirituality is enhanced. The second section was in the form of a publishable article which explored how it might be possible to evaluate spiritual care within a dementia-care setting. This took the form of a case study in which I worked with staff in a home that had difficulty evidencing spiritual care. It raised issues about the nature of care and assessment of spiritual care, as well as the rationale behind, and the delivery of, that care. What developed used the biblical concept of ‘fruits of the spirit’ as a way of recognising spiritual dis-ease as it is these qualities which enable inspiration, reverence, awe, meaning and purpose even in those who have no religious beliefs. The model used to offer this care was through the 3 R’s of reflection, relationship and restoration. Section three, reflective-practice section, emerged out of my practice as a chaplaincy adviser for MHA, in which I reflected critically on the contexts and understanding of the manager and chaplain, and how a chaplaincy manual was developed. The ability of the chaplain to work effectively and enable good spiritual care in the home, depended on the relationship between the manager and chaplain. By exploring the culture of both manager and chaplain, a way to enable good communication was discovered. The role of pastoral care and how it is seen within an organisation, that must have a professional management, was investigated and ways suggested for mutual understanding using the chaplaincy manual. The last section examined whether the Christian ethos of MHA encouraged a model of person-centred care. I suggested that a way of making sense of the data is by using types to describe personhood and how that can be made visible by their care. Considering the way that therapeutic interventions (reminiscence therapy, reality orientation, validation therapy, drug therapy) were used offered a way to enable the ethos of the home to be seen more clearly. Central to theological anthropology is the concept of the person which includes an ethical dimension. MHA has the strap line, ‘care informed by Christian concern’, so the study investigated whether this Christian ethos is lived out in the care offered. These aspects of study have led me to begin this thesis to research how care is delivered and what carers understand to be appropriate care. An appreciation of the context in which this care takes place also highlighted a need to conduct a theological exploration of the nature of the person with dementia.

An analysis and discussion of selected writings of Jim W. Corder, this project traces the development of Corder's theory of rhetoric across four decades, spanning from the late 1950s to the late 1990s. As one of the most prolific scholars in the history of the modern discipline of rhetoric and composition, Corder's body of writings is a continuous work in progress, one that begins with Corder's initial interest in rhetoric study within the context of literary criticism and grows into his in-depth consideration of the history and canons of rhetoric, with specific emphasis on theories of ethos and invention, the teaching of composition, the liberal arts tradition, and his later engagement with postmodern theories authorship, memory, and identity. The dissertation seeks to reclaim and reassert Corder's rhetorical perspective as means to shape future research in rhetorical analysis and composition pedagogy.

Travelers' experiences in Cyprus and the texts they produce in light of these encounters function rhetorically, informing cultural relations among people of different societies. When the efforts of these travel writers are taken to be rhetorical, critics position themselves to identify how ethics, politics, and aesthetics of narration and self-representation create the tropes that fix other people in ideological space. This analysis examines the production of difference in selected travel narratives set in Cyprus in the later modern era, which coincides with the rise of anti-colonial politics, nationalism, and globalization (1955-2005). To further focus the analysis, I attend mostly to the representation of "the Turk" in this textual genre. An introductory chapter examines the rhetorical situation of the travel text of Cyprus, exploring rhetorical and critical concepts such as ethos, rhetoric as popular culture, and tropology; it also surveys the landscape of Cyprus as a destination of travel and introduces some of the major texts to be considered. Subsequent chapters explore the rhetoric of narrated travel writing set in Cyprus according to its variations in style and historical epoch. The critique examines the ethics of narration and representation in memoirs, travelogues, political journalism, guide books, and ethnographies by a diverse range of writers including Lawrence Durrell, Colin Thubron, and Christopher Hitchens. A concluding chapter considers alternative, rhetorically self-conscious forms of travel and writing that suggest different possibilities for an ethical future of travel, travel narration, and cultural encounters.

In this dissertation, I argue that ethos is generative as James Corder defines it. I seek to show that women preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church who spent a significant amount of their careers in Oklahoma generated an ethos in their autobiographical texts and transcribed, edited interviews that constructed individualized as well as a social instantiations of ethos. I rhetorically analyzed these texts using five categories of ethos as a rubric for making connections between Corderian theory and my case studies: ethos as transformation, ethos as wisdom or authority, ethos in the stated motives and purposes in a text, ethos as charisma, and ethos as dynamic processes built from identification. In chapter one, I lay out my theoretical perspective, situating it within the canonical history of rhetoric. In chapter two, I describe the historical and religious contexts that put my study of women preachers into a wide conversation of views on women preachers and show how my work is a participation in and a continuation of such conversations. In chapter three, I focus on the autobiographical texts from the late nineteenth through the middle twentieth centuries, comparing male constructions of ethos to female from members of the same group. In chapter four, I make connections between the older texts of chapter three and the twenty-first century interviews I collected and transcribed in 2004 in order to demonstrate paradigm shifts that have occurred, as well as to show how new instantiations of ethos are grounded in localized histories as well as larger ones. In chapter five, I turn to a discussion of the nature of truth inside of epistemic rhetorics. Since generative ethos is aligned with epistemic rhetoric, how we construct ethos within a group is tied to our sense of the nature of truth. Particularly interesting is my connection of truth and ethos to the Holy Spirit.

Det har aldrig varit så lätt att uttrycka sin åsikt och samtidigt så svårt att faktiskt göra sin röst hörd som det är idag. För att nå ut med sin åsikt måste man uttrycka sig på rätt sätt och i rätt forum. Den här uppsatsen granskar hur man kan påverka en samhällsdebatt genom strategisk kommunikation och uppnå en förändring som kommer från publiken man riktar sig till. Uppsatsen sammanför retorik med strategisk kommunikation och undersöker specifikt hur organisationen Ruter Dam arbetar för att påverka jämställdhet inom svenskt näringsliv. Analysen åskådliggör hur Ruter Dam arbetar mot ett jämställt näringsliv med utgångspunkt i den retoriska situationen, publiker, core message och stakeholders. Slutsatser som dras är att genom tydligt avgränsade publiker, en argumentation som tar utgångspunkt i ethos och ett core message som genomsyrar kommunikationen kan Ruter Dams kommunikation uppfattas som effektiv och dess styrkor visar sig också vara dess svagheter. Det kan också fastslås att Ruter Dams strategiska kommunikation är ett bra exempel på hur man kan arbeta med strategisk kommunikation för att uppnå en förändring som kommer från publiken den riktar sig till.

The social democratic party was the dominating political force in Sweden for almost half a century. This fact forced other political forces to define themselves in opposition to the party. By describing the social democrats, their policies and the society they had constructed, these parties at the same time described themselves, their policies and the society that they strived for. The right as well as the left used stories in their political communication where they themselves were the heroes and the social democrats the villain. I study these stories as they are portrayed in political caricatures to examine the opponents image of the social democrats to see what it can tell us about how the left and the right regarded themselves. / Socialdemokraterna var under nästan ett sekel den dominerande politiska kraften i Sverige. Detta tvingade andra politiska krafter att definiera sig i motsättning till partiet. Genom att beskriva Socialdemokraterna, deras politik och det samhälle de byggt upp gav dessa andra partier samtidigt en bild av sig själva, sin politik och det samhälle de ville se. I sin politiska kommunikation använde såväl högern som vänstern berättelser där det egna partiet eller den egna rörelsen spelade rollen som hjälte, medan socialdemokratin tilldelades rollen som skurk. Genom att studera dessa berättelser som de kommer till uttryck i karikatyrer undersöker jag motståndarnas bild av Socialdemokraterna för att se vad den kan säga om vänsterns och högerns självbild.

Användandet av sociala medier av politiker har fått global spridning de senaste åren. Med Obama i framkant har det visat sig att det är betydelsefullt att ha ett starkt personligt varumärke på sociala medier såsom Twitter. Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur några svenska politiker konstruerar ett personligt varumärke via mikrobloggen Twitter. Vi har undersökt hur politikerna framställer sig och vilka roller som synliggörs, samt vilken agenda som ligger bakom deras framställning. Vi har använt oss av flera olika teoretiska begrepp för att analysera vårt material. För att analysera vilka olika roller som framställs har vi använt oss Erving Goffmans begrepp privat och offentlig, samt retoriska analysbegreppen ethos, logos, pathos för att synliggöra politikernas trovärdighet. Studiens huvudsakliga resultat visar att politikerna framställer fem olika roller i sina tweets. De roller som synliggörs är den personlige politikern, partipolitikern, den trovärdige politikern, den informerande politikern och den känslosamma politikern.

Thesis (M.A.)--Cincinnati Christian University, 2008. / Includes abstract and vita. Description based on Print version record. Bibliography: leaves 149-169.

Après la publication de Meursault, contre-enquête en France en 2014, Kamel Daoud, écrivain algérien d’expression française, s’est vu propulsé sur la scène littéraire internationale. Son roman, qui se veut à la fois une réponse et un hommage à L’Étranger d’Albert Camus, sera traduit en plus de vingt-cinq langues. Dans le roman de Camus, Meursault abat sans états d’âme un Arabe dont on ne connaîtra jamais l’identité. Non seulement l’Arabe sera-t-il mort dans l’anonymat le plus total, mais le roman de Camus donne l’impression que Meursault sera davantage condamné pour ce qu’il est plutôt que pour ce qu’il a fait. Le point de départ de Meursault, contre-enquête naît de cette injustice flagrante contre laquelle se révoltera Haroun, frère de l’Arabe assassiné et narrateur du récit. Dans cette thèse, nous examinons les procédés littéraires – soit l’intertextualité, l’hypertextualité et la transfictionnalité – utilisés par Kamel Daoud pour mettre en scène la quête de son héros. En outre, nous analysons comment se manifestent l’absurde et la révolte chez le narrateur du roman de Daoud. Enfin, nous voyons par quels moyens Haroun reconstruit l’ethos préalable de l’Arabe et parvient, au-delà du récit premier de Camus, à donner une identité à l’Arabe de L’Étranger, entreprise transfictionnelle vers laquelle tend tout le roman, même si dans la foulée, Haroun se plaît à mettre à l’avant-scène sa propre image de soi.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-29T15:08:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_3448_Dissertação Maria Angela Lopes.pdf: 12044947 bytes, checksum: 06279479eda4f4abfd6ca02608b267ae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-04-03 / Neste trabalho, pretendo mostrar que a criança, ao fazer escolhas identificáveis em seu texto, demonstra capacidade de assumir atitude responsiva ativa em certas situações de enunciação. A atitude responsiva ativa é, para Bakhtin ([1979]/2003), o que coloca o sujeito numa ativa posição discursiva, tornando-o capaz de concordar, discordar, completar e aplicar os elementos lingüísticos da comunicação discursiva, ocorrendo durante todo o processo de compreensão linguística. É importante ressaltar que essa atitude responsiva é determinada pelas condições de produção e revela o lugar que o ethos ocupa no discurso. Na busca dessa atitude responsiva ativa, deparamo-nos com os conceitos de escolhas discursivas, subjetividade e gênero propostos por Bakhtin e complementados por autores como: Benveniste, Possenti, Foucault e outros. Além disso, abordamos a noção de ethos postulada por Maingueneau (1993/1995), pois entendemos que, por estar vinculado ao exercício da palavra, o ethos pode se conciliar com a noção de sujeito-ativo de Bakhtin. A pesquisa segue os moldes do paradigma indiciário proposto por Ginzburg (1986), que consiste em analisar o objeto de pesquisa seguindo os indícios dos pormenores que constituem o quadro representativo das hipóteses a serem verificadas. O corpus da pesquisa é um recorte da produção escrita de um sujeito em fase de escolarização, abrangendo a 1ª e a 2ª séries do ensino fundamental.