David S Kaufer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1003357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David S Kaufer |
| GIVEN NAMES | David S |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaufer |
| SIGNATURE | KAUFER D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Advancing the validity argument for standardized writing tests using quantitative rhetorical analysis
Essay writing is a common type of constructed-response task used frequently in standardized writing assessments. However, the impromptu timed nature of the essay writing tests has drawn increasing criticism for the lack of authenticity for real-world writing in classroom and workplace settings. The goal of this paper is to contribute evidence to a validity argument for standardized writing tests. Using measurements of distances between rhetorical…
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign memoirs: A study in contrasting identities
This essay examines the rhetorical identities of Hillary Clinton’s two political memoirs—Living History and Hard Choices. The first spanned her childhood through her years as first lady. The second recounted her tenure as secretary of state. Though both memoirs were written with a past orientation, they also sought to keep alive a future run for the presidency. Situating the two Clinton memoirs in the history of biography, we employ corpus rhetor…
Lincoln: The “Double Consciousness” of the Man and the President
Other| March 01 2015 Lincoln: The “Double Consciousness” of the Man and the President Shawn J. Parry-Giles; Shawn J. Parry-Giles Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Rhetoric and Political Culture in the Department of Communication and Director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland in College Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David S. Kaufer David S. Kaufer Davi…
Lincoln Reminiscences and Nineteenth-Century Portraiture: The Private Virtues of Presidential Character
This essay examines reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln that were published in the aftermath of his death by those who had interacted with Lincoln personally. An understudied genre y Lincoln reminiscences offered judgments of Lincolns character through a portraiture style designed to make salient private as well as public dimensions of his character. We historicize the rhetoric of portraiture and trace the rise of reminiscence out of biography as a …
The “image bite,” political language, and the public/private divide: NBC News coverage of Hillary Clinton from scorned wife to Senate candidate
Voice-overs with muted images, often known as the “image bite,” have become an increasingly used but understudied format of political language by the television news media. Because the media can use images to fit many contexts and purposes of commentary, the media images are susceptible to continuous de-contextualization and re-contextualization. Drawing from theories of feminist critical discourse analysis and gender performance as well as schol…
A first for women in the kingdom: Arab/west representations of female trendsetters in Saudi Arabia
Postcolonial and media literatures have documented the West's association with Muslim/Arab woman and images of passivity and oppression. The literature has yet to systematically consider western depictions of the Muslim Arab woman who is a trendsetter. How does the western press depict this powerful woman and do western and Arab media depict this woman similarly or differently? This article reports on a discourse analytical study of 32 articles t…
Discriminating political styles as genres: A corpus study exploring Hariman's theory of political style
Five years apart, Hariman (1995) and Fairclough (2000) produced major theoretical statements about political language and style. Their work grew out of different intellectual traditions and took on different subject matters. Hariman, drawing on the textual criticism model of American rhetorical studies, defined style as a cultural repertoire of persuasive techniques that can work across texts, media, institutions, and other modes of communication…
Genre variation and minority ethnic identity: Exploring the ‘personal profile’ in Indian American community publications
Indian Americans, along with other Asian American groups, are victims of the ‘model minority’ stereotype in American public discourse. This article explores the relationship between this stereotype and the nature of personal profiles published in the Indian American community. To explore the relationship systematically, I employed a controlled comparison between profiles in Indian American publications and a ‘control’ minority whose various ident…
Designing Interactive Worlds With Words: Principles of Writing As Representational Composition
No two writing situations are exactly the same and skilled writers, like skilled painters, must develop the know-how to represent the objects of their writing as part of a flexible art. This special art of writing lies hidden between grammar--the well-formedness of sentences--and genre--the capacity of texts to perform culturally holistic communicative functions (e.g., the memo, the strategic report, the letter to the editor). Concealed between g…
Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village: Selected Papers From the 1998 Thirtieth Anniversary Rhetoric Society of America Conference
Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village represents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines, and includes such diverse topics as race, technology, and religion, demonstrating the expanding relevance of rhetoric in today's world. The essays included in this volume address the question of the polis in ancient and modern times, gradually converging with the more recent 30-year span between the decade of the Global Village a…
Accommodating mixed sensory/modal preferences in collaborative writing systems
Communication at a Distance: The Influence of Print on Sociocultural Organization and Change.
Semantic Connectivity: An Approach for Analyzing Symbols in Semantic Networks
We argue that the notions of “symbol” and “symbolic connectivity” can be rigorously developed both from the point of view of the theoretical literature on the symbol and from the point of view of semantic network theory. The theoretical literature, inspired mainly by the literary metaphor, typically takes interpretive density as the chief dimension underlying symbolic expression. Density measures have also dominated the analysis of semantic netwo…
Composing Written Sentences
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Irony, Interpretive Form, and the Theory of Meaning
The study of is obstructed by a double edged hurdle. On the one hand there exists such a diversity of things to which the name irony appropriately attaches (sarcastic, tragic, comic, romantic, sentimental, etc.) that one despairs of ever finding a unified core. But on the other hand we are so adept at recognizing ironies in particular settings that we seldom take as problematic our inability to explain the concept uniformly across this diversity.…
Foregrounding norms and ironic communication
Researchers in literary theory, linguistic pragmatics, and rhetoric have identified three principal communicative functions of irony: (1) to give emphasis or reinforcement to the values of a friendly listener, (2) to attack or ridicule the values of an hostile or unsuspecting listener, and (3) to undermine an opponent's intellectual position. This essay goes further by (7) arguing that a process called the “foregrounding of norms” is crucial to i…
Ironic evaluations
Ironic statements function rhetorically as evaluations. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to extend our understanding of irony by examining the pragmatics of ironic evaluation in the larger context of the pragmatics of evaluation per se; (2) to argue that the study of irony makes an important contribution to the general epistemology of evaluation insofar as the conditions of knowledge underlying ironic communication serve as standards aga…
Understanding ironic communication
Analyzing philosophy in rhetoric: Darrow's mechanism in the defense of Leopold and Loeb
As an avowed proponent of mechanistic doctrine, Clarence Darrow subscribed to the view that human actions are determined by heredity and environment, and free will does not exist. This view often anchored Darrow's strategies as a defense counsel, since it allowed him to argue that his clients were unwitting victims of unfortunate circumstances. Darrow was pressed to exploit more subtle adaptations of mechanistic doctrines in his “defense” of Leop…
The Competence/Performance Distinction in Linguistic Theory
Chomsky introduit la ditinction competence/performance dans Aspect of the Theory of Syntax, (Cambridge, Massachussetts, 1965) la competence gouvernant ce que celui qui parle connait en connaissant un langage, la performance la facon dont il utilise ce qu'il connait dans la langage. L'A. montre que cette distinction n'est pas un argument mais un truisme qui ne saurait caracteriser en tant que tel la theorie de Chomsky| ce qui importe c'est la mani…
Point of view in rhetorical situations: Classical and romantic contrasts and contemporary implications
Three perspectives on rhetorical situations are discussed and general relationships are drawn among these perspectives, assumptions of social interaction, and competing perceptions of language function. Classical and Romantic conceptions of rhetoric are contrasted to illustrate the range of these relationships, and these contrasts are discussed in light of contemporary ideals
The influence of Plato's developing psychology on his views of rhetoric
This essay attempts to increase our understanding of Plato's views on rhetoric by associating them with his developing psychology. In his early “Socratic” period, Plato endorsed a “cognitive” psychology; but in his middle period, he adopted a “conflict” psychology. This essay (1) traces the genesis of his conflict psychology, and (2) documents the influence of this genesis on his discussion of rhetoric in the Gorgias and Phaedrus
Semantic Connectivity: An Approach for Analyzing Symbols in Semantic Networks
We argue that the notions of “symbol” and “symbolic connectivity” can be rigorously developed both from the point of view of the theoretical literature on the symbol and from the point of view of semantic network theory. The theoretical literature, inspired mainly by the literary metaphor, typically takes interpretive density as the chief dimension underlying symbolic expression. Density measures have also dominated the analysis of semantic netwo…
Understanding ironic communication
Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village: Selected Papers From the 1998 Thirtieth Anniversary Rhetoric Society of America Conference
Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village represents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines, and includes such diverse topics as race, technology, and religion, demonstrating the expanding relevance of rhetoric in today's world. The essays included in this volume address the question of the polis in ancient and modern times, gradually converging with the more recent 30-year span between the decade of the Global Village a…
A first for women in the kingdom: Arab/west representations of female trendsetters in Saudi Arabia
Postcolonial and media literatures have documented the West's association with Muslim/Arab woman and images of passivity and oppression. The literature has yet to systematically consider western depictions of the Muslim Arab woman who is a trendsetter. How does the western press depict this powerful woman and do western and Arab media depict this woman similarly or differently? This article reports on a discourse analytical study of 32 articles t…
Irony, Interpretive Form, and the Theory of Meaning
The study of is obstructed by a double edged hurdle. On the one hand there exists such a diversity of things to which the name irony appropriately attaches (sarcastic, tragic, comic, romantic, sentimental, etc.) that one despairs of ever finding a unified core. But on the other hand we are so adept at recognizing ironies in particular settings that we seldom take as problematic our inability to explain the concept uniformly across this diversity.…
Lincoln Reminiscences and Nineteenth-Century Portraiture: The Private Virtues of Presidential Character
This essay examines reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln that were published in the aftermath of his death by those who had interacted with Lincoln personally. An understudied genre y Lincoln reminiscences offered judgments of Lincolns character through a portraiture style designed to make salient private as well as public dimensions of his character. We historicize the rhetoric of portraiture and trace the rise of reminiscence out of biography as a …
The “image bite,” political language, and the public/private divide: NBC News coverage of Hillary Clinton from scorned wife to Senate candidate
Voice-overs with muted images, often known as the “image bite,” have become an increasingly used but understudied format of political language by the television news media. Because the media can use images to fit many contexts and purposes of commentary, the media images are susceptible to continuous de-contextualization and re-contextualization. Drawing from theories of feminist critical discourse analysis and gender performance as well as schol…
Genre variation and minority ethnic identity: Exploring the ‘personal profile’ in Indian American community publications
Indian Americans, along with other Asian American groups, are victims of the ‘model minority’ stereotype in American public discourse. This article explores the relationship between this stereotype and the nature of personal profiles published in the Indian American community. To explore the relationship systematically, I employed a controlled comparison between profiles in Indian American publications and a ‘control’ minority whose various ident…
Foregrounding norms and ironic communication
Researchers in literary theory, linguistic pragmatics, and rhetoric have identified three principal communicative functions of irony: (1) to give emphasis or reinforcement to the values of a friendly listener, (2) to attack or ridicule the values of an hostile or unsuspecting listener, and (3) to undermine an opponent's intellectual position. This essay goes further by (7) arguing that a process called the “foregrounding of norms” is crucial to i…
Analyzing philosophy in rhetoric: Darrow's mechanism in the defense of Leopold and Loeb
As an avowed proponent of mechanistic doctrine, Clarence Darrow subscribed to the view that human actions are determined by heredity and environment, and free will does not exist. This view often anchored Darrow's strategies as a defense counsel, since it allowed him to argue that his clients were unwitting victims of unfortunate circumstances. Darrow was pressed to exploit more subtle adaptations of mechanistic doctrines in his “defense” of Leop…
Point of view in rhetorical situations: Classical and romantic contrasts and contemporary implications
Three perspectives on rhetorical situations are discussed and general relationships are drawn among these perspectives, assumptions of social interaction, and competing perceptions of language function. Classical and Romantic conceptions of rhetoric are contrasted to illustrate the range of these relationships, and these contrasts are discussed in light of contemporary ideals
The influence of Plato's developing psychology on his views of rhetoric
This essay attempts to increase our understanding of Plato's views on rhetoric by associating them with his developing psychology. In his early “Socratic” period, Plato endorsed a “cognitive” psychology; but in his middle period, he adopted a “conflict” psychology. This essay (1) traces the genesis of his conflict psychology, and (2) documents the influence of this genesis on his discussion of rhetoric in the Gorgias and Phaedrus
The influence of Plato's developing psychology on his views of rhetoric
This essay attempts to increase our understanding of Plato's views on rhetoric by associating them with his developing psychology. In his early “Socratic” period, Plato endorsed a “cognitive” psychology; but in his middle period, he adopted a “conflict” psychology. This essay (1) traces the genesis of his conflict psychology, and (2) documents the influence of this genesis on his discussion of rhetoric in the Gorgias and Phaedrus
The Competence/Performance Distinction in Linguistic Theory
Chomsky introduit la ditinction competence/performance dans Aspect of the Theory of Syntax, (Cambridge, Massachussetts, 1965) la competence gouvernant ce que celui qui parle connait en connaissant un langage, la performance la facon dont il utilise ce qu'il connait dans la langage. L'A. montre que cette distinction n'est pas un argument mais un truisme qui ne saurait caracteriser en tant que tel la theorie de Chomsky| ce qui importe c'est la mani…
Point of view in rhetorical situations: Classical and romantic contrasts and contemporary implications
Three perspectives on rhetorical situations are discussed and general relationships are drawn among these perspectives, assumptions of social interaction, and competing perceptions of language function. Classical and Romantic conceptions of rhetoric are contrasted to illustrate the range of these relationships, and these contrasts are discussed in light of contemporary ideals
Analyzing philosophy in rhetoric: Darrow's mechanism in the defense of Leopold and Loeb
As an avowed proponent of mechanistic doctrine, Clarence Darrow subscribed to the view that human actions are determined by heredity and environment, and free will does not exist. This view often anchored Darrow's strategies as a defense counsel, since it allowed him to argue that his clients were unwitting victims of unfortunate circumstances. Darrow was pressed to exploit more subtle adaptations of mechanistic doctrines in his “defense” of Leop…
Ironic evaluations
Ironic statements function rhetorically as evaluations. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to extend our understanding of irony by examining the pragmatics of ironic evaluation in the larger context of the pragmatics of evaluation per se; (2) to argue that the study of irony makes an important contribution to the general epistemology of evaluation insofar as the conditions of knowledge underlying ironic communication serve as standards aga…
Understanding ironic communication
Foregrounding norms and ironic communication
Researchers in literary theory, linguistic pragmatics, and rhetoric have identified three principal communicative functions of irony: (1) to give emphasis or reinforcement to the values of a friendly listener, (2) to attack or ridicule the values of an hostile or unsuspecting listener, and (3) to undermine an opponent's intellectual position. This essay goes further by (7) arguing that a process called the “foregrounding of norms” is crucial to i…
Irony, Interpretive Form, and the Theory of Meaning
The study of is obstructed by a double edged hurdle. On the one hand there exists such a diversity of things to which the name irony appropriately attaches (sarcastic, tragic, comic, romantic, sentimental, etc.) that one despairs of ever finding a unified core. But on the other hand we are so adept at recognizing ironies in particular settings that we seldom take as problematic our inability to explain the concept uniformly across this diversity.…
Composing Written Sentences
Preview this article: Composing Written Sentences, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/rte/20/2/researchintheteachingofenglish15612-1.gif
Semantic Connectivity: An Approach for Analyzing Symbols in Semantic Networks
We argue that the notions of “symbol” and “symbolic connectivity” can be rigorously developed both from the point of view of the theoretical literature on the symbol and from the point of view of semantic network theory. The theoretical literature, inspired mainly by the literary metaphor, typically takes interpretive density as the chief dimension underlying symbolic expression. Density measures have also dominated the analysis of semantic netwo…
Communication at a Distance: The Influence of Print on Sociocultural Organization and Change.
Accommodating mixed sensory/modal preferences in collaborative writing systems
Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village: Selected Papers From the 1998 Thirtieth Anniversary Rhetoric Society of America Conference
Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village represents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines, and includes such diverse topics as race, technology, and religion, demonstrating the expanding relevance of rhetoric in today's world. The essays included in this volume address the question of the polis in ancient and modern times, gradually converging with the more recent 30-year span between the decade of the Global Village a…
Designing Interactive Worlds With Words: Principles of Writing As Representational Composition
No two writing situations are exactly the same and skilled writers, like skilled painters, must develop the know-how to represent the objects of their writing as part of a flexible art. This special art of writing lies hidden between grammar--the well-formedness of sentences--and genre--the capacity of texts to perform culturally holistic communicative functions (e.g., the memo, the strategic report, the letter to the editor). Concealed between g…
Genre variation and minority ethnic identity: Exploring the ‘personal profile’ in Indian American community publications
Indian Americans, along with other Asian American groups, are victims of the ‘model minority’ stereotype in American public discourse. This article explores the relationship between this stereotype and the nature of personal profiles published in the Indian American community. To explore the relationship systematically, I employed a controlled comparison between profiles in Indian American publications and a ‘control’ minority whose various ident…
Discriminating political styles as genres: A corpus study exploring Hariman's theory of political style
Five years apart, Hariman (1995) and Fairclough (2000) produced major theoretical statements about political language and style. Their work grew out of different intellectual traditions and took on different subject matters. Hariman, drawing on the textual criticism model of American rhetorical studies, defined style as a cultural repertoire of persuasive techniques that can work across texts, media, institutions, and other modes of communication…
A first for women in the kingdom: Arab/west representations of female trendsetters in Saudi Arabia
Postcolonial and media literatures have documented the West's association with Muslim/Arab woman and images of passivity and oppression. The literature has yet to systematically consider western depictions of the Muslim Arab woman who is a trendsetter. How does the western press depict this powerful woman and do western and Arab media depict this woman similarly or differently? This article reports on a discourse analytical study of 32 articles t…
Lincoln Reminiscences and Nineteenth-Century Portraiture: The Private Virtues of Presidential Character
This essay examines reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln that were published in the aftermath of his death by those who had interacted with Lincoln personally. An understudied genre y Lincoln reminiscences offered judgments of Lincolns character through a portraiture style designed to make salient private as well as public dimensions of his character. We historicize the rhetoric of portraiture and trace the rise of reminiscence out of biography as a …
The “image bite,” political language, and the public/private divide: NBC News coverage of Hillary Clinton from scorned wife to Senate candidate
Voice-overs with muted images, often known as the “image bite,” have become an increasingly used but understudied format of political language by the television news media. Because the media can use images to fit many contexts and purposes of commentary, the media images are susceptible to continuous de-contextualization and re-contextualization. Drawing from theories of feminist critical discourse analysis and gender performance as well as schol…
Lincoln: The “Double Consciousness” of the Man and the President
Other| March 01 2015 Lincoln: The “Double Consciousness” of the Man and the President Shawn J. Parry-Giles; Shawn J. Parry-Giles Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Rhetoric and Political Culture in the Department of Communication and Director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland in College Park. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google David S. Kaufer David S. Kaufer Davi…
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign memoirs: A study in contrasting identities
This essay examines the rhetorical identities of Hillary Clinton’s two political memoirs—Living History and Hard Choices. The first spanned her childhood through her years as first lady. The second recounted her tenure as secretary of state. Though both memoirs were written with a past orientation, they also sought to keep alive a future run for the presidency. Situating the two Clinton memoirs in the history of biography, we employ corpus rhetor…
Advancing the validity argument for standardized writing tests using quantitative rhetorical analysis
Essay writing is a common type of constructed-response task used frequently in standardized writing assessments. However, the impromptu timed nature of the essay writing tests has drawn increasing criticism for the lack of authenticity for real-world writing in classroom and workplace settings. The goal of this paper is to contribute evidence to a validity argument for standardized writing tests. Using measurements of distances between rhetorical…
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