As I am interested in any (social scientist's) research on missionaries I would like to gain insights in a "rhetorical analysis" about acculturation of missionaries. Thanks.
Article A investigative rhetorical analysis of methods of acculturat...
To be honest with you I do not know what is Rhetorical analysis. But if it is the Analysis of Rhetorics then it should can be done with the methods of discourse analysis.
Thank you, Babak, sure this sort of analysis has something to do with discourse analysis. Interesting for me is also the context of research on 16th century missionaries, where we only have historical sources. A rhetorical analysis may - I suppose - also be helpful to gain insights into the persuasive language used by missionaries in order to covert other people (here: the Aztecs) to Christianity. This is an interesting fact that is so far not so often mention in psychology or sociology of religious conversions.
I think you should then consider the sources written by the missionaries themselves as well as those by outsiders who describe missionaries' actions and the Aztec's reactions. In fact you are doing a double or triple discourse analysis/
Yes, this a three-directional discource analysis. Nevertheless, it would have been nice to browse in the work of Diane Rao what I linked in my initial question. So far, I tried to contact but without success.
Manuel López-Muñoz
makes an important point. You need to background the work by understanding the training that priests received in rhetoric and, indeed, to compare missionary texts directed at other cultures with the rhetoric of sermons directed at Europeans. This is not my area, but in musicology it's important to understand what the performer or composer would have been trained to do and been expected to do by the audience to understand the significance of what they actually did.- Badges
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