ENG 720 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mein Kampf, Cultural Artifact, Telstra
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Rhetoric is the social function that in uences and manages meaning . How we de ne culture has political implications ad not ordered by an imposition of hierarchies. Culture is the vast set of artifacts that nurture and in uence the development and growth of people. It is the social groups for which the artifacts stand as vicars. It is the socially generated symbolic strategies for manifesting artifacts as real" objects, actions, and events with ranges of meaning. Final exam cultural artifact, we have to write about it. Exigent - peak crises or interventions manifestations: interventionist. Quotidian - content of the everyday appropriational. Implicative - unquestioned meanings (terministic screens) conditional. Brummett: levels of rhetoric function: spectrum, does not escalate, 1. Exigent: peak crises or interventions, addressing a problem, making a decision that requires action, e. g. a vote, an act of war, a plan of action, 2.
