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Midterm 2 Flashcards

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Modes of production were an object of study in what tradition?

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  • Dialectical materialism
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Which tradition looks at the culture industry and institutions?

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Critical tradition

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Horkheimer and Adorno, Habermas, and Deetz belonged to what tradition?

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  • Critical
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Marx and Engles were part of what tradition?

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  • Dialectical materialism
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Aristotle, Burke, and foss & Griffith are authors of what tradition?

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  • Rhetorical
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This tradition looks at the means of persuasion and an object that it studies is speech

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  • Rhetorical
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Foss and Griffith argue that a _______ bias underlies most theories of rhetoric

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  • Patriarchal
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Who argued for invitational rhetoric, encompassing equality, immanent value, and self determination?

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  • Foss and Griffith
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Who discussed identification and division heavily in their writings of rhetoric?

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  • Burke
  • says that rhetoric is an essential function in language and language is a symbolic means to produce cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols
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Deetz (critical tradition) used systematic disclosure and discursive closure (disqualification & naturalization) to explain that all communication is _______ to some degree

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  • Distorted
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Adorno and Horkheimer argued at the _______ industry teaches us what we want, makes us think it’s our own ideas, and sells it to us

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Culture

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________ addresses 4 claims to validity including: 1. Intelligibility, 2. Truth, 3. Normative rightness, 3. Sincerity

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Habermas

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This theory (critical tradition) states that ppl take statements to be true just because ppl agree upon them

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  • Consensus theory of truth
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Habermas, Fraser, and Warner are the theorists in?

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  • Public sphere theory
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Habermas argues that 1. Access, 2. Free participation, and 3. Rationality and general interest are aspects of the _________ _________

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Public sphere

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The _______ __________ organizes itself as a bearer of public opinion

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Public sphere

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What does Habermas believe the role of media such as newspapers and magazines are?

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To transmit information of the public sphere to influence those who receive these messages

18
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Fraser discusses subaltern counter politics. What are these groups and what do they do?

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  • Subordinated social groups such as women and gays)

- they critique others

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What does it means to say that countering the public sphere has an emancipatory potential?

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  • Countering the public sphere allows individuals to express their own freedom
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What does Warner mean by saying the public is autotelic? When does a public exist according to him?

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  • it is an ends to itself
  • a public exists when somebody is addressed or talked to. For example, when a president addresses ‘the American ppl’ in a speech, a public now exists…..
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Buber, Gadamer, and Chang were members of what theory?

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  • Phenomenological
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Chang uses 3 personal conversation examples to explain the idea that most conversations are _______. He says they become _________ when non- comprehension occurs

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  • Meaningless

- Meaningful

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Buber (phenomenological) argues for 3 kinds of dialogue. What are they?

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  1. Genuine
  2. Technical
  3. Monologue disguised as dialogue
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This theory is the philosophy of existence and is concerned with how ppl come to know the world through the senses

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Phenomenological

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Mead, Taylor, and Cameron are part of the ____________ tradition, concerned with our relations to society.

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  • Sociocultural
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Self- regulation in society, and communication as an experience of the other are topics discussed by who?

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Mead

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Mead discusses the differences between animal and human communication. What are these differences?

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Animal= reactive
Human= symbols and language
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Taylor et al discuss the ABX model of communication. What does this model tell us?

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A= a person who asks for something
B= person who responds and asks for A
X= an object that triggers the interaction
—> communication occurs at the intersection of conversation (interaction) & text (meaningful content)

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__________ argues the concepts of the enterprise culture (values that help ppl to succeed in bold and difficult undertakings) and that communication is being turned into an expert system (general and impersonal, detach skills & techniques in communication, system doesn’t care about you as a person)

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Cameron

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