Writing with Andrew | Worth Reading | Kenneth Burke's "Semantic and Poetic Meaning" @WritingwithAndrew | Uploaded November 2020 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
We often hear people complain about the ambiguity and subjectivity of language, but there's more to language than being true or false. In this video, we discuss Kenneth Burke's "rhetorical defense of rhetoric" and the different ways writers can create meaning.
0:00 Introduction
2:00 The Semantic Ideal
6:45 The Poetic Ideal
10:43 Balancing the Semantic and Poetic Ideals
We often hear people complain about the ambiguity and subjectivity of language, but there's more to language than being true or false. In this video, we discuss Kenneth Burke's "rhetorical defense of rhetoric" and the different ways writers can create meaning.
0:00 Introduction
2:00 The Semantic Ideal
6:45 The Poetic Ideal
10:43 Balancing the Semantic and Poetic Ideals
