Example Text: "Community"
Let's break it down:
- Dramatizing message?
- Fantasy?
- Fantasy Types?
Identify:
- Characters
- Plot lines
- Scene
- Sanctioning agent
Season 1, Ep. 21 "Contemporary American Poultry"
Fantasy Theme Analysis
- type of rhetorical criticism
- people create social reality
- meanings, motives, emotions can be seen in rhetoric
- reoccurring themes
Research Conducted
-Porter (1976)
-Goodnight & Poulakos (1981)
- Corporate Strategy Planning
-Cragen & Shields (1992)
Rhetorical Vision
Fantasy Types
- Larger-scale "symbolic reality"
- Rhetorical community
- "well-worn symbolic path"
- more inclusive
Ernest G. Bormann
Fantasy Chain
Dramatizing
Fantasies
Theory created by Bormann in reaction to Bales' study
- unpredictable
- conversation quickens
- most common due to frustration or problem-solving
- symbolic cue-
- imaginative language
- creativity
- not present
- bonds an already established group and/or brings others into the group
Symbolic Convergence Theory