Pentadic Analysis of a Wyoming TV Show: The Rhetoric of Scene and Agency and Its Impact on Native American Communities

Kenneth Burke’s Pentadic ratios are used to analyze the rhetorical choices of characters from the Cheyenne Reservation and the Sheriff’s department in the television show Longmire. The ratios reveal scene as the focus of Native American rhetoric and agency as the focus of the Sheriff’s rhetoric. The...

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Main Author: Meredith, Lora Leslie
Format: Others
Published: North Dakota State University 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29301