Todd Oakley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1048793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd Oakley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd |
| FAMILY NAME | Oakley |
| SIGNATURE | OAKLEY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5242-461X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Brian Ellis
Dramatized internal dialogue in a comedy by Shakespeare
We analyze the theater performance of a dilemma enacted as dialogic solitude speech, involving fictive interaction ( Pascual 2002 , 2006 , 2014 ). The scene, from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice , represents the conflicting thoughts of character Lancelet as clashing advice from two invisible interlocutors, i.e., Conscience and Fiend. The actor swiftly and constantly shifts viewpoint between the three, employing linguistic, vocal, gestural, s…
Shocking projections
Origins of money
Few other social technologies and institutions are more consequential to human societies than money. Yet money remains a deeply perplexing phenomenon. On the one hand, it is a pan-human system of valuation, but on the other, it is conventional and variable in its uses. While it is controversial if money instantiates a fully-fledged sign system, it is rife with semiotic capacities. To present an illuminating analysis of money is thus a test case f…
The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture
“Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric” - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It is the latter half that this volume explores: how does culture emerge out of rhetorical action, out of seemingly dispersed individual actions and interactions? The contributors do not rely on rhetorical “text” alone but engage the situational, bodily, and of…
Astonishment and Evocation
All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise, scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to what lies beyond the obvious. This book broadens and deepens this perspective. Inspired by Stephen Tyler’s view of ethnography as an art of evocation, international scholars from the fields of aes…
The reductio argument against epistemic infinitism
Multimodal rhetoric
This article explores the role fictive interaction plays in two recent political speeches during the 2012 election year in the United States. The first is actor Clint Eastwood’s keynote address to the Republican National Convention in which he engages in a fictional conversation with President Barack Obama; and the second is by Mark Sanford, former Republican governor of South Carolina and candidate for US Congress who stages a fictive debate wit…
Evaluation of baseline frequency of sister chromatid exchanges in an Italian population according to age, sex, smoking habits, and gene polymorphisms
When “Goal!” means ‘soccer’
Autism is characterized by repetitive behavior and difficulties in adopting the viewpoint of others. We examine a communicative phenomenon resulting from these symptoms: non-prototypical direct speech for non-reports involving an actual utterance from previously produced discourse (e.g. quoting somebody’s words to refer to them, Pascual 2014 ). We video-recorded the naturalistic speech of five Brazilian children with autism, five typically develo…
What we talk about when we talk about texts
The ideal of an “authoritative text” is no longer a taken-for-granted assumption among editorial and critical theorists of the literary text. Rather, texts are, and should be thought of as, composites of distributed activities of multiple social agents. This view has many virtues, but it quickly runs up against the deeply entrenched gestaltism of the “underlying work” stance, a perspective that invades some of the most commonplace ways of talking…
The rhetorical emergence of culture
Honeymoons and Pilgrimages
The cultural-historical manifestations of allegory are extensive and varied. We present detailed analyses of two allegorical texts from disparate historical formations: a Prudentian allegory from 17th century England and a short, 21st century viral video uploaded to YouTube. Despite vertiginous differences, a common conceptual core is identifiable and, we argue, best modeled by Conceptual Integration Networks. These networks, however, vary in sys…
Blending and coded meaning
Blending basics
Blending and metaphor
A more recent framework, proposed by Fauconnier and Turner (1994; 1998) seeks to explain much of the same linguistic data, and also to unify the analysis of metaphor with the analysis of a variety of other linguistic and conceptual phenomena. This framework—referred to variously as the theory of 'blending', 'conceptual blending', and 'conceptual integration'—shares many aspects of conceptual metaphor theory (CMT). For instance, both approaches tr…
Conceptual blending, narrative discourse, and rhetoric
This study addresses the concerns of the linguist interested in understanding complex referential relationships that develop over extended stretches of discourse, the interests of the rhetorician interested in understanding how human beings use language for purposes of establishing and maintaining individual and group identity, and the concerns of the literary critic interested in understanding the role narrative structure place and guiding reade…
Blending and coded meaning
Conceptual blending, narrative discourse, and rhetoric
This study addresses the concerns of the linguist interested in understanding complex referential relationships that develop over extended stretches of discourse, the interests of the rhetorician interested in understanding how human beings use language for purposes of establishing and maintaining individual and group identity, and the concerns of the literary critic interested in understanding the role narrative structure place and guiding reade…
Conceptual blending, narrative discourse, and rhetoric
This study addresses the concerns of the linguist interested in understanding complex referential relationships that develop over extended stretches of discourse, the interests of the rhetorician interested in understanding how human beings use language for purposes of establishing and maintaining individual and group identity, and the concerns of the literary critic interested in understanding the role narrative structure place and guiding reade…
Blending and metaphor
A more recent framework, proposed by Fauconnier and Turner (1994; 1998) seeks to explain much of the same linguistic data, and also to unify the analysis of metaphor with the analysis of a variety of other linguistic and conceptual phenomena. This framework—referred to variously as the theory of 'blending', 'conceptual blending', and 'conceptual integration'—shares many aspects of conceptual metaphor theory (CMT). For instance, both approaches tr…
Blending basics
Blending and coded meaning
The rhetorical emergence of culture
Honeymoons and Pilgrimages
The cultural-historical manifestations of allegory are extensive and varied. We present detailed analyses of two allegorical texts from disparate historical formations: a Prudentian allegory from 17th century England and a short, 21st century viral video uploaded to YouTube. Despite vertiginous differences, a common conceptual core is identifiable and, we argue, best modeled by Conceptual Integration Networks. These networks, however, vary in sys…
Multimodal rhetoric
This article explores the role fictive interaction plays in two recent political speeches during the 2012 election year in the United States. The first is actor Clint Eastwood’s keynote address to the Republican National Convention in which he engages in a fictional conversation with President Barack Obama; and the second is by Mark Sanford, former Republican governor of South Carolina and candidate for US Congress who stages a fictive debate wit…
Evaluation of baseline frequency of sister chromatid exchanges in an Italian population according to age, sex, smoking habits, and gene polymorphisms
When “Goal!” means ‘soccer’
Autism is characterized by repetitive behavior and difficulties in adopting the viewpoint of others. We examine a communicative phenomenon resulting from these symptoms: non-prototypical direct speech for non-reports involving an actual utterance from previously produced discourse (e.g. quoting somebody’s words to refer to them, Pascual 2014 ). We video-recorded the naturalistic speech of five Brazilian children with autism, five typically develo…
What we talk about when we talk about texts
The ideal of an “authoritative text” is no longer a taken-for-granted assumption among editorial and critical theorists of the literary text. Rather, texts are, and should be thought of as, composites of distributed activities of multiple social agents. This view has many virtues, but it quickly runs up against the deeply entrenched gestaltism of the “underlying work” stance, a perspective that invades some of the most commonplace ways of talking…
The reductio argument against epistemic infinitism
The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture
“Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric” - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It is the latter half that this volume explores: how does culture emerge out of rhetorical action, out of seemingly dispersed individual actions and interactions? The contributors do not rely on rhetorical “text” alone but engage the situational, bodily, and of…
Astonishment and Evocation
All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise, scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to what lies beyond the obvious. This book broadens and deepens this perspective. Inspired by Stephen Tyler’s view of ethnography as an art of evocation, international scholars from the fields of aes…
Shocking projections
Origins of money
Few other social technologies and institutions are more consequential to human societies than money. Yet money remains a deeply perplexing phenomenon. On the one hand, it is a pan-human system of valuation, but on the other, it is conventional and variable in its uses. While it is controversial if money instantiates a fully-fledged sign system, it is rife with semiotic capacities. To present an illuminating analysis of money is thus a test case f…
Dramatized internal dialogue in a comedy by Shakespeare
We analyze the theater performance of a dilemma enacted as dialogic solitude speech, involving fictive interaction ( Pascual 2002 , 2006 , 2014 ). The scene, from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice , represents the conflicting thoughts of character Lancelet as clashing advice from two invisible interlocutors, i.e., Conscience and Fiend. The actor swiftly and constantly shifts viewpoint between the three, employing linguistic, vocal, gestural, s…
Brian Ellis
Linguistics (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Rhetoric (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)