Items for "rhetorical analysis"

Food and behavior: A Burkean motive analysis of a quasi-medical text

Kenneth Burke sought to understand the motives writers establish in the textual scenes they create with a ‘grammar of motives’, which positions an action in one of five motives: the act, the agent, the scene, the purpose, and the agency (means)...

Keywords: Kenneth Burke, discourse analysis, rhetorical analysis, motive analysis