The epideictic character of rhetorical criticism<sup>1</sup>

Sullivan, Dale L.

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“…Aristotle's rhetorical genres have been used widely in communication studies (Condit, 1985;Medhurst, 1989;Sullivan, 1993). Aristotle divides rhetoric into three genresforensic, epideictic, and deliberative-based on the type of audience and the nature of the rhetorical situation (Aristotle, 1991;Herrick, 2005;J.…”

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“…Poulakos & Poulakos, 1999). Epideictic rhetoric creates and defines a world of realities and invites the audience to evaluate the verisimilitudes of the speech (Sullivan, 1993). Organizational scholars have established the connection between rhetoric and cognitive legitimacy (Hirsch, 1986).…”

Section: Epideictic Rhetoric: the Ccp As Community Buildermentioning

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“…The CCP attempted to earn its right to speak through its display of knowledge and attitudes. The legitimacy of the speaker would be judged based on the truth and verisimilitude of the speech (Sullivan, 1993). The audience learned how the stock market works, and, through this, came to understand and accept the CCP's role in defining what was acceptable and appropriate behavior for market participants.…”

Section: Epideictic Rhetoric: the Ccp As Community Buildermentioning

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Rhetoric and Authority in a Polarized Transition: The Case of China’s Stock Market

Green

Hirsch

2016

Journal of Management Inquiry

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How do actors in positions of authority attempt to justify their right to rule while introducing controversial institutional practices that potentially delegitimate their authority? China’s reform leaders have found themselves in a legitimacy conundrum when they established and developed the stock market, yet have been able to assert a central role for the party-state in managing the stock market. Using a critical rhetorical perspective, we analyze how actors use “rhetorical genres,” that is, argumentation and narration with differing content and style, to construct new roles of the speaker and speaker–audience relationships that imply new bases of authority, and how these rhetorical genres can be conceptualized as “discursive spaces” that could accommodate contradictions in the rhetorical situations characterized by polarization in ideologies and interests.

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Rhetoric and Authority in a Polarized Transition: The Case of China’s Stock Market

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Hirsch

2016

Journal of Management Inquiry

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“…Others have pointed out the epideictic nature of some types of journalistic texts, such as the editorial obituary (Beale 1978, p. 239), which mirrors the classical discourse of eulogy; feature stories that have a celebratory purpose (p. 240); some articles printed in the op-ed pages of newspapers (Sheard 1996, p. 771); editorials that ''praise or blame a public figure's actions, serving as epideictic rhetoric'', and critical reviews (Sullivan 1993b) of books, films, performances that ''present arguments at the stasis of value or quality, associated with epideictic rhetoric'' (Daniel 2002, p. 516).The epideictic as a genre has also grown to encompass a number of audiovisual formats: the political campaign film (Morreale 1991), the television talk shows (McKenzie 2000), andTV commercials (Zeytinoglu 2007).…”

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The Newspaper as an Epideictic Meeting Point

Pan

2014

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This article shows how epideictic rhetoric and argumentation may be interrelated in a general-interest newspaper framed as a single discourse produced by a collective author. In more specific terms, the view advanced here is that newspaper as whole has an epideictic dimension which, in terms of argumentation, is the fundamental or predominant one. The usefulness of this approach is twofold. In terms of rhetoric, to explore the applicability of epideictic rhetoric to journalistic discourse; and in the field of journalism studies, the goal is to draw on the theory of epideictic rhetoric so as to refine the conceptualization of the nature of argumentation in the newspaper as such. Given this twofold perspective, the account of newspaper discursive practices will be general, and the classical and contemporary epideictic theory will be briefly summarized. However, the outcome of this analysis is an example of a fruitful encounter between the two fields.

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“…In these self-descriptions, we can see the importance of managing what social psychologists have called ‘communicator credibility’ (e.g. Hovland & Weiss 1951), and rhetorical theorists term ‘ethos’ (Sullivan 1993; Bruss & Graff 2005). To be a credible organization only concerned with trustworthy statistics, UKSA needs to manage its reputation as being independent from government and from all political parties.…”

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Preventing the political manipulation of Covid-19 statistics: The importance of going beyond diplomatic language

Billig

Marinho

2022

Lang. Soc.

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This article examines how the political manipulation of Covid-19 statistics was opposed in 2020. It does this by studying in detail the language used in a public exchange of letters in the UK. The exchange was between the chair of the United Kingdom Statistics Authority (UKSA), a statutory body to prevent statistical malpractice, and the Minister of Health, who had been manipulating Covid statistics. The exchange reflects the greater power of the government minister. Initially, the UKSA chair used diplomatic language, marked by paratactic constructions, unspecified arguments, and impersonal structures that did not threaten the minister's face. The minister ignored these and the UKSA chair had to go beyond diplomatic language by re-specifying his arguments and upgrading his critical terminology. Only by catching the press's attention did the chair succeed in making the minister rectify, at least partially, the manipulated statistics. Implications for understanding today's political values are discussed. (Opposing statistical manipulation, manipulating Covid statistics, diplomatic language, parataxis and hypotaxis)

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The epideictic character of rhetorical criticism¹

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Rhetoric and Authority in a Polarized Transition: The Case of China’s Stock Market

Rhetoric and Authority in a Polarized Transition: The Case of China’s Stock Market

The Newspaper as an Epideictic Meeting Point

Preventing the political manipulation of Covid-19 statistics: The importance of going beyond diplomatic language

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Cited by 15 publications

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Rhetoric and Authority in a Polarized Transition: The Case of China’s Stock Market

Rhetoric and Authority in a Polarized Transition: The Case of China’s Stock Market

The Newspaper as an Epideictic Meeting Point

Preventing the political manipulation of Covid-19 statistics: The importance of going beyond diplomatic language

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