NCA papers
Theoretical Fidelity: Implications of a Consistent and Enduring Orientation in the Discipline of Communication
James W. Chesebro1
November 24, 20022
This panel is particularly revealing. It reveals a great deal–not about me, but actually about Barry Brummett. Barry is one of the few people I know who would use a sexual metaphor to discuss theory—linking sex and theory is, itself, revealing. One is tempted to ask if theory is orgasmic for [...]
A Burkeian Perspective of Interpersonal Communication: A Confession and Extension
A Burkeian Perspective of Interpersonal Communication: A Confession and Extension
James W. Chesebro1
November 21, 20022
Last year, at this convention, we explored how Burkeian concepts have been used and evolved since the death of Kenneth Burke3. We return to this discussion again at this convention. The return is totally appropriate. We have not exhausted the topic, and [...]
Responding to, Placing, and Extending Kenneth Burke’s Auscultation, Creation, and Revision: The Rout of the Esthetes Literature, Marxism, and Beyond
James W. Chesebro
Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association,
Atlanta, Georgia
November 2, 2001
I particularly welcome this opportunity to characterize Kenneth Burke’s Auscultation. In preparing his manuscript for publication, as many of you know who may have read Burke’s original manuscript, Burke’s extended marginal notes, cross-references, additions, and deletions, created a particularly challenging [...]