Dictionary of Socio-Rhetorical Terms

Welcome to the Dictionary of Socio-Rhetorical Terms. From this page, you are able to find the definitions of most of the major terms and concepts used by Socio-Rhetorical Criticism (and related fields) as well as short descriptions of the "textures" that make up a religious text.

To begin, click on the letter that begins the word for which you are seeking a definition:
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Click an item on the Textures Table, or go to the Rhetorolect/Belief Systems Table:

Inner Texture	Intertexture	Social-Cultural Texture	Ideological Texture	Sacred Texture
Repetitive Progressive Narrational Opening-Middle-Closing	Oral-Scribal Recitation Recontextualization Reconfiguration Narrative Amplification Thematic Elaboration Cultural Reference or allusion Echo	Specific Topics Conversionist Revolutionist Introversionist Gnostic-Manipulationist Thaumaturgic Reformist Utopian	Individual Locations Relation to Groups Clique Gang Action set Faction Corporate group Historic tradition Multiple traditions	Deity Holy person Spirit being Human redemption
Argumentative Sensory-Aesthetic Emotion-fused thought Self-expressive speech Purposeful action	Social Role Institution Code Relationship Historical Multiplicity of data Nature of data	Common Topics Honor-Shame: ascribed, acquired Individualist, dyadic Contracts: colleague, patron-client Challenge-response Exchange systems Peasants Limited goods Purity codes	Modes of Intellectual Discourse Historical-critical Social-scientific History of religions New historical Postmodern Socio-rhetorical	Human commitment Religious community Ecclesiology Ethics
		Final Categories Dominant Culture Subculture Counterculture Contraculture Liminal Culture	Spheres of Ideology Implied author location Ideology of power