Robert L. Ivie: Kenneth Burke's Attitude Toward Rhetoric

Toward critical contrastive rhetoric

A traditional approach to contrastive rhetoric has emphasized cultural difference in rhetorical patterns among various languages. Despite its laudable pedagogical intentions to raise teachers’ and students’ cultural and rhetorical awareness in second language writing, traditional contrastive rhetoric has perpetuated static binaries between English and other languages and viewed students as cult...

Robert L . “ A Theory

Research Paper Abstracts of Kenneth L. Simons

Economists have long sought to understand how product-specific traits drive industry outcomes, but the conclusions that could be drawn have been limited by shortage of dynamic competitive theories and empirical fact. The paper draws on a theoretical model in which technological opportunity drives industry evolution, fueling a spiral of advantage that allows a few firms to dominate in the long r...

Toward a Rhetoric of Hybrid-Space Walking

This paper examines how mobile technologies and Web 2.0 applications are changing the ways their users are organizing and experiencing city space. Adopting de Certeau’s rhetoric of walking as a framework, this paper argues that mobile technologies with geolocation awareness combined with mapping mashups value map-space and location awareness rather than the city space as practiced place. Users ...

Attitude toward imprecise information

This paper presents an axiomatic model of decision making under uncertainty which incorporates objective but imprecise information. Information is assumed to take the form of a probability-possibility set, that is, a set P of probability measures on the state space. The decision maker is told that the true probability law lies in P and is assumed to rank pairs of the form (P, f) where f is an a...