COMM1010 Lecture Notes - Sensemaking
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Non western ancient rhetoric: why study non greek, non western rhetoric, methodological difficulties with studying non greek, non western rhetoric, because no one was accessing them we have lost our ability to get, access them easily, training the text, sense making, likely written in dead and dying languages, even if we have them we, as rhetorical scholars, don"t have the skills to study them accurately, end up trying to understand the language and not the issues within, we learn by adding on skill sets we make sense of rhetoric that came before with rhetoric that came after, we are using the wrong methods, putting things into western culture standards, expertise, who is qualified to judge if we did a good job or not, no one to determine if the work is superior, how do we define it, some say comparative rhetoric but it is inaccurate, cultural rhetoric, mailloux (1998) said: