Rethinking perelman's universal audience: Political dimensions of a controversial concept

Velasco, Antonio Raul De

doi:10.1080/02773940509391310

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“…Particular audiences , like audiences addressed, are real people with whom a rhetor interacts. Universal audiences are less well defined, for which the New Rhetoric’s theory has been criticized (Velasco, 2005). But a universal audience is similar to an audience invoked in that it is a fabrication of rhetors’ imagination based on their (hopefully educated) assumptions about their particular audiences.…”

Section: Audiencementioning

confidence: 99%

About Face: Reflexively Considering “Audience” in Hiring Situations

Randazzo

2018

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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Using data from 88 students, 20 advisers, and 24 hirers about U.S. résumés, this article focuses on face of the company, the concept of employers' evaluating how well applicants might represent a company. The results of applying rhetorical listening’s identification–disidentification to “face” suggested two outcomes and their implications. First, primary audiences invoked secondary audiences to the point in which they conflated, suggesting that résumés should incorporate secondary audiences. Second, hirers sometimes violated their own beliefs about diversity hiring because of audiences they invoked, suggesting that because invoking audience can perpetuate inequitable hiring practices, hirers should be more nuanced about the audiences they choose.

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Section: Audiencementioning

confidence: 99%