'Kenneth Burke’s Dramatism Essay\r'

'Life is drama; playacting roles in relation to other people. sideline in the inter act of language and action. emblematic Interactionistâ€Language is symbolic action. â€Å"Verbal symbols be meaningful acts from which motives can be derived (Griffin, p. 329).” â€Å" kind beings…argon a symbol-creating, symbol-using, and symbol misusing animal(prenominal) (Littlejohn, 1978, p. 69).” A theory of causativesâ€why do people act (particularly rhetorically) the way they do? Assess motives.\r\nTexts/Speeches created by people to â€Å"DO SOMETHING.” Can be analyzed to dress what it is they are trying to do.\r\nDistinguishes human â€Å" carry through” from Animal â€Å" consummation”\r\nAction Motion\r\nDone on purpose;Behaviors that are non-\r\nvoluntary behavior purposeful/non-meaningful\r\ne.g. DramatismïÆ'ª\r\nïÆ'ª both animals and objects\r\nPeoplehave motion\r\nïÆ'ªïÆ'ª Forms of ThoughtThe study of motion is\r\nïÆ'ª too l\r\nUnderstood through motives\r\nïÆ'ª Pentad\r\n(tool for sympathy motives)\r\nMotive: Linguistic Product of rhetorical Action Created a Grammar of Motives (â€Å"grammar” meaning rules, principles, elements, organize and/or book) Motives are viewed by remove in damage of internal sources of action; but rather in terms of how language and terms are apply to make actions understandable. Guilt as Motive: offense is an â€Å"all-purpose word for every feeling of tension within a personâ€anxiety, embarrassment, self-hatred, disgust, etc. (Littlejohn, 1978, p. 70).”\r\nWe communicate to wander ourselves of guilt.\r\nGuilt arises out of language.\r\nThree sources of guilt:\r\n1. The Negative: Language allows for rules, morals, etc. that debate us and we can’t turning away violating.\r\n2. The Principle of Perfection: Language allows us to â€Å"imagine” the ideal (should).\r\n3. The Principle of Heirarchy: social organisation society with compet ing class and group distinctions\r\nWe seek redemption (reduce or eliminate guilt) through communication/rhetoric/dramatism\r\n1. Mortification: self-blame\r\n2. Victimage: orthogonal enemy is the source\r\n3. Scapegoating: blame other(s)\r\n nerve center: general nature of a intimacy\r\nConsubstantiation: (shared substance, commonality)\r\nIdentification: (same as consub) degrees of; conscious or unconscious;\r\n1) material identificationâ€goods, possessions, things\r\n2) wondrous identificationâ€values, ideas, feelings, attitudes\r\n3) processal identificationâ€form or arrangement of\r\nact/conventions; roles, customs, etc.\r\nDivisionâ€differences with others (source of guilt)\r\nPENTAD\r\nTool for catch motives\r\nAct\r\nSceneAgent\r\nAgency Purpose\r\n(Hexad: stance: delayed or incipient action)\r\n instruction of motives will answer: What was through (act), when or where it was done (scene), who did it (agent), how it was done (agency), and why it was done ( purpose).\r\n'